Update : )

I'm back, and probably sooner than any of you expected! I was only gone for as long as it took for me to race through those amazing books... ; ) So, here's a quick update on what I've been doing the past few weeks in no particular order. So many amazing things, and I'm grateful for each one of them!

• Catching up on letters and emails
• Doing school (I can see the light at the end of my Grammar studies tunnel!!)
• Trying to fit blogging in somewhere ; )
• Learning ebook formatting
• Selling used books on Amazon (and shipping them out! That part is the best!)
• Cleaning house and then cleaning it again
• Baking really yummy things (Banana cake, cinnamon rolls...pie next)
• Helping a friend out with her beading business
• Doting on the babies (they are so amazing!!)
• Reading
• Thinking about reading some more
• Writing stories (well, not so much really lately--I'm hoping to get back to it soon)
• Painting tiny fingernails
• Writing to-do lists
• Battling seasonal allergies
• Watching "Granite Flats" with my family
• Washing dishes
• Doing a service project with my family and my aunt
• Reading some more
• Going to a bookstore with my family to trade used books for credit (So much fun!!)
• Formatting baptismal certificates for church
• Coming up with ideas for stories
• Searching free images for a blog button I am supposed to be making
• Discussing true worth in Christ with Paul
• Joining in toddler dance parties (Irish music, Messianic Jewish music, classical music...)
• Making new friends
• Watching "Penguins of Madagascar" (in which Benedict Cumberbatch can't say the word "penguin"!)
• Learning my true worth in Christ
• Celebrating Christ's death for us at a Good Friday service
• Celebrating Christ's resurrection for us at our Resurrection Day service
• Watching the wonderful nephews and some little friends hunt Easter eggs
• Laughing with family and friends as we ate our Easter dinner
• Reading (Ha, ha! There it is again!)
• Helping run/plan a fabulous church picnic (Tyler won a 5k, and Mom and Pearl took home blue ribbons for their chili and cookies!)
• Helping the little kids at said picnic make their own icecream
• Feeling sore that day and the next after shaking so much icecream ; )
• Cleaning rock salt off the chairs the kids used for the icecream project
• Making new friends and hanging out with old ones
• Enjoying every minute of the hayride
• Learning origami with and from a little friend
• Singing songs around the campfire with wonderful friends
• Cleaning the house again
• Discussing which characters in "Granite Flats" are spies and which sides they are on
• Listening to a sermon on the Gibeonites deception of Israel (really good!)
• Pondering the reviews I must write
• Discovering that a nephew (or two) chasing a laser light is one of the funniest things in the world!!!
• Learning to live in what Christ has done (and is doing) for me

What about you? What have you been doing?