Busy week

Stephanie has been off from school for spring break this week and has been engaged in spring cleaning, putting up new curtain rods and drapes and washing and ironing our existing drapes and cleaning the upstairs and all of our windows in general. I've led the four phone focus groups with Presbyterian pastors and presbytery executives this week, hearing plenty of criticism of Presbyterian national staff that I work for but also hearing other valuable ideas about what's distinctive about the Presbyterian church and how we might improve it - some of it might be more useful to church leaders than others. Also, we've dealt with a very sick dog (Frisco vomiting all one night) and warming temperature with a car with no air-conditioning and power windows not working (so locked shut - we're looking into fixing the power windows). Vincent has also been preparing for appearing in three 10-minute plays, with the first performance of all the 10-minute plays slated for after school tomorrow at 3 p.m. He'll also perform at 3 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Friday (we'll probably be there), and 7 p.m. Saturday. I've been helping plan a first-ever fund-raising walk-a-thon/potluck lunch for Vincent's school Parent-Teacher-Student Association for this weekend. As I wrote earlier, contributions are welcome.