leadership retreat and mom visit

we had a really good weekend. my mom's mom turned 90 years old on thursday and they had a birthday party for her over in louisville at the assisted living place. would've loved to have gone, but with work and all, alas. afterwards, mom and charlie came to stay for the weekend. when we set this up, i had forgotten that we already had a leadership retreat scheduled for the weekend. in the end, i was able to spend time with both and it worked out pretty well.

when they arrived on thursday evening, i was making a double batch of peanut thai for dinner - it turned out scrumptious! friday after work, L met me in wilmore and we went straight on to the leadership retreat. it was a cookout and low ropes course for team building that evening. mom and charlie had stayed with jake all day and all evening while L hit the dentist on her off day.

on saturday morning, i got up and went to the seminary library to get some fall semester books and a bunch from my amazon list. i walked out with like 30 books that aren't due until january 2008. if any are great resources, i'll purchase them later. the retreat was from 9:00a - 4:00p on saturday and L stayed with mom, charlie, and jake and worked on hanging three ceiling fans in the upstairs rooms. they were all already wired up and supported so it was much easier than it could have been.

sunday was a great church service and then enchiladas for lunch. mom and charlie left shortly thereafter and we all napped away most of the afternoon. i read some for a book review that is due tonight, but we mainly just hung out and had some brats and rice for dinner. two papers this week (no biggie... :-) ) and then a good 10-11 days off until fall semester begins the day after labor day.