1) Having older children responsible enough to not only feed their little brother, while I was out at the maize and Shon and Alex were out of town, but they also helped him study for his spelling test, read him a story, said family prayer and tucked him in.  Wow.

2) Having a good relationship with the personnel in our children's schools.  It has made getting ready to leave easier.

3) Continued good weather at the maize....dare I say 77 degrees today!?!  Last year at this time we were ankle deep in sticky cold half frozen mud.  Hope it continues.