No surprises

Unfortunately, there will be no surprise visit to California for me next week, although I know it will be a wonderful party. Am even more upset about the Oscars. Very rainy and yucky here. Have our friends Jon and Elizabeth coming in this weekend and have our annual neighborhood couples cocktail party on Saturday Night. Dill's mom comes on Monday for a week. Then we have Spencer, Lalah and Perry a couple of weeks later, then Lizzy and then Shannon is coming for 4 days. So looking very forward to all of our visitors. Tomorrow is Donuts for Dads at Baker's school so Baker is so excited that Dill is taking him to school and going to his class etc. Big day. In the process of knitting a sweater for Baker so my reading streak has slowed significantly. Can't read and knit at the same time unfortunatley. Hopefully this nasty weather will end because Baker got a Big Wheel this week and it is so fun to watch him ride it. I know Chaz can remember with me how much we LOVED our Big Wheels. Mary Rowe is as precious and feisty as usual and is apparently in love, with Jesus. So funny. If she sees a star in the sky she points to it and yells "Baby Jesus" at the top of her lungs and before she goes to sleep she has to hear this little song she made up that goes to the Frarajaka (sp?) tune. It just says Baby Jesus, Baby Jesus we love you...... As you can imagine, religion and Christianity in particular is such a given here and all the preschools are through churches so children at the youngest ages begin learning about religion. Church is a very central part of spiritual and social life. It has actually been quite pleasant going to church again and getting involved as an adult and not just as a child who was made to go!! Sorry for straying Lizzy. I swear this won't turn into a bible beating blog. Miss everyone.