It seems like a lot of people from meeting have been getting very sick with little time to live. That latest two are one of our workers, Lowell Stidolph and our very good friend Edie Plews. Lowell is around sixty and Edie is probably a little over seventy. These faithful people will surely be missed. There has always been a need to raise godly children, it just seems so much more urgent now.
Kelly and Christian did very well in school yesterday. I worked a little more than usual with Kelly. We corrected the second draft of her annual research report on newspapers and spent probably an hour on fixing math problems she did not understand. Christian finished reading his book on Robert Fulton yesterday and is working hard on getting the first draft of his annual research report on airplanes typed into the computer from his hand written rough draft.
Dad called yesterday. He had gotten us twenty Japanese Lilac Trees. Lorena and I looked them up on the internet. We really did not like them so much because they did not look like they would get very big. They also looked like they would make quite a mess. I called Dad and it felt kind of bad rejecting a free gift. He said he would get some maples instead. Dad and Mom are going to run over to the coast to see Joe and Edie in the next day or two. I hope we can get permission to go, too. It would be nice to see Edie. It would also be nice to spend a day at the coast with the kids.