Mother's Day

Wow is it already May 9th, Mother's Day...what happened between my last post on April 24th and today?

Well several things happened:

• April 26-30--TAKS week for public schools and some family members...5 grandchildren taking TAKS test and three children administering the TAKS test.
  
• April 26-30--Yard work...Patrick and I (he didn't have to take the TAKS test)...I am trying to improve the condition of my yard. Over the last few years it has begun to deteriorate and look drab. I am determined to improve that situation.
  
• April 30--Shelby's 20th birthday...where was she, taking a college class all weekend.
  
• April 28--Retired Teacher's meeting...part of the program included information about the Brickyard Cemetery Preservation Project. Very few people in Mesquite even know that there ever was a Black Community in our city. It was moving away about the time I moved to Mesquite, but I knew about it and about where it was located, but not much more. I am glad they are trying to preserve the cemetery.
  
• May 3--BSF Introduction for next year...I have completed all the Bible Study Fellowship courses up to this point, but next year there will be a new study-on the Book of Isaiah--and I am planning to attend, but before you can attend you have to attend an introduction and enrollment session.
  
• May 4--Voting for local stuff...City Council, DCCCD board members, etc. I am convinced now more than ever that informed voting is absolutely necessary, and I intend to do my part. Sometimes I may be voting against a candidate, but that is important also.
  
• May 5--Lighthouse Award Program for Patrick...the entire faculty from Principal to Security Guard is included. Each person chooses a student who has made an impression on that faculty member. The student is presented a certificate, a lapel pin, a picture of the two of them. The program consists of 3 of the chosen students making a speech regarding their plight in life and how they have overcome obstacles to get to where they are today.
  
• May 5--Korean Children Choir at our church...such a treat. These were students of the approximate 4th - 6th grade age range (maybe a couple or 7th-8th grade range). They were polite, well organized, and very talented. They sang and choreographed songs (Patriotic and Hymns) in English and Korean. They wore two performance uniforms during the program-formal wear and native wear. They also had a traveling uniform-black skirts and slacks with white blouses and shirts. They ate dinner in our dinning hall with all of us and they were wearing their formal wear (pink dresses and black tuxes). They visited with our kids as our kids came by the table, but they never left their table. They were not running all over the dinning hall. They left the dinning hall in single file to prepare for the concert. After the program they left the choir suite in their traveling uniform, in single file, carrying their own uniform bags headed straight for the bus. However, they were all smiles and told us all good bye as they passed us in the hall.
  
• May 6--Singing Men of Texas Concert...composed of men in the North Texas area who are Ministers of Music in a church, retired from a church, or on staff in a Christian College, or somehow connected to Christian music leadership. These men were scheduled to go on a singing mission trip to the Ukraine, but the volcanic ash from the erupting volcano in Iceland delayed their trip until October 2010. Their repertoire included two numbers in Russian. By October they will be singing a new repertoire of new music, but they will still sing their Russian numbers in the Ukraine.
  
• May 8--Mother's Day dinner with Larry, Brenda, Jordan, Courtney, Hunter...because there are so many variables in Larry's family they decided to celebrate Mother's day for Brenda and I on Saturday night. We went to a place called Fish City. Excellent food.
  

Well now I am tired just thinking over the activities since the last post.

When I look forward to the remainder of May and on into June it looks about the same