Sorry for the delay since my last post. Been a little busy over here these days. That's getting to be the norm nowadays. Since last post, we had our combined choir performances at three different churches in two days. I've sent recordings of it to some of you. Those who didn't get one and may be interested, go ahead and e-mail me at cougalum1@hotmail.com. With that performance, the choir is off now for the summer, so we have our Wednesday evenings free again, which I think Andrew needed, working his two jobs and all. He gets a little more time to snooze that way.
The boys seem to continue making new friends all the time and broadening their play experience. Today we set up the volleball net in the back yard and the neighbor girl and another boy from the neighborhood, Dorion, played with the boys back there as well as horseshoes in the front yard. It's nice to have two yards for a change. I don't miss the asphalt jungle a bit...
The boys had Uncle Andrew take them out to the school carnival at Challenger Elementary as I had to work yesterday. They had a really good time and got a lot of prizes. The prizes are a little nicer then when Jennifer and I went to the carnival in our old country school house in St. Hilaire.
My work continues to go well with the transcription company in Illinois. They had been holding on to all my work for close inspection during my orientation period, but recently took me off 100% hold and authorized me to send my work directly to the doctors' offices, so it's nice not having someone looking over my shoulder all the time except for those few reports I am not able to understand the doctor on. I scaled my hours back a little bit so I'm just working 9 to 3 pm on weekdays and 8 hours on Saturdays. I'm already feeling a lot of pressure lifted now that the evenings are more open and I'm not "chained to the desk."
In the past week, the boys helped me plant our herb garden and some flowers and Daniel planted his tree from school for Arbor Day. I have yet to see how they do as it's been hard keeping them watered enough. It's so windy and sunny that the soil tends to dry out pretty quick.
As for the headline of today's post, we had a severe thunderstorm warning flash on TV last night, but all we got was a dazzling light show. Tonight, however, both thunder and lightning are here in TRF and in full force. I'm probably stupid typing this right now given the state of weather affairs, but I didn't want to put this off another week as there are a few still reading what's going on over here. There was also a tornado warning this afternoon for the counties of Grand Forks, Marshall, and Polk, all areas surrounding TRF, but probably a good 40-50 miles away. They just said conditions were "favorable" for a tornado. None sighted yet, though, knock on wood.
I took some new pictures today of the kids and will probably post them next, but give me a few to get around to it. We had to come inside from playtime thanks to the thunderstorm.
Hope everyone had a happy Mother's Day!
Until next time...
Jim, Aaron, Daniel, and Andrew
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