My Week:

1) Two days of excellent learning and networking at a piano teacher’s conference.

2) One crazy day of garage sale prep in which a large portion of our storage room and two shelves in the garage were mostly emptied (woo hoo!)

3) Two long days of selling stuff to strangers, during which I vowed never to have a garage sale again.

4) A very cool answered prayer when I decided I needed to pack up the sale early on Thursday, but had a fussy Lydia with me and no one to help move tables.  Fifteen minutes after I asked God to send someone by to help me, an acquaintance from a few years ago happened along and was very willing to help me pull everything into the garage.

5) One day of cleaning up the garage after the sale.  I’m pretty sure we have less stuff now than we did before the sale started, although since I made the mistake of telling my mother that she was free to bring any of my stuff over that I’d left in my parents’ house, we might not actually be much ahead of where we were.  More sorting/getting rid of stuff will be necessary before Peter can get his car back in the garage.

6) An evening out with one of Peter’s co-workers and his wife, who treated us to a fabulous dinner downtown.  Scallops, calamari, and swordfish.  Mmmmm, I do love swordfish… and since I’m not pregnant I could order it!  (Why are all the best foods the ones you’re not supposed to eat when you’re with child?)

7) Church this morning with a very challenging message about living under the authority of our good King.  It was the best sermon I’ve heard in a while, although as Peter noted, it was rather ironic that the one weekend we decide to stay out late on Saturday would also happen to be the one where our pastor felt led to preach a 40 minute sermon on Sunday morning.  I just hope he didn’t take my yawns personally.

8) A well-deserved afternoon nap today, followed by a trip to Target for much-needed groceries.  Alethea surprised me by spontaneously pointing out that the aisle signs hanging overhead were triangles.  (She also correctly identified them as ‘green’ when asked.)

9) A birthday party for my sister-in-law this evening, followed by bedtime for the girls, followed by me preparing for the beginning of summer piano lessons tomorrow.  I’m really looking forward to applying some of what I learned this week to real life teaching moments.  I feel like I’m becoming a better and better teacher as the years go by, so much so that I think I really ought to track down my first piano students and give them their money back.

10) Finally getting a blog post written, which you are now reading.

Not too much on the schedule for this coming week, so hopefully posts will becoming more plentiful.  At the very least, I will get Lydia’s 5 month pictures taken and write her monthly update.  Stay tuned!