Marie had a few days off classes, so we took advantage of the time to visit a little town to our west and try their ice coffee flights.
It was a nice drive and we almost made ourselves sick.
And we were mostly surprised by the ones we liked vs the ones we cared less for.
We are adjusting birthdays left and right this year.
Which just means we are busy again – YAY.
Marie couldn’t think of anything she wanted for dinner – then I suggested fish tacos and we had a life changing meal.
And then she requested a new kind of dessert. We gave it multiple thumbs up.
She’s 19. Hard to believe.
Our friends, the Richardsons, joined us for last minute dessert.
It is wonderful to have friends who don’t balk at our fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants world.
After Johanna, Katriel, and I went to a library field trip, we picked up Marie and Tab and headed to a local Mexican restaurant Tab had been to with friends.
It was incredible.
My only regret is that I had forgotten how I lost my appetite a month or so ago and my brain rarely remembers.
The balloons are still up from Tab’s birthday party. So we made good use of them.
It was Marie’s last day of her freshman year.
And we are getting serious about Tabitha clocking in driving. We hope she has her license by the end of summer.
Katriel was Sarah Beth, a little girl writing a letter to her grandmother before their Christmas holiday together.
She did get bored…
But she did well and it was excellent.
Literally – it’s a little Jack Skellington.
Marie started to make him while we were up in NY. Some heavy duty wire, some floral wire, and some special clay.
She’s worked patiently at it, and hit a few learning curves with paint, etc.
Most good projects hit some snags and require some re-doing…
I don’t understand the movie at all, but this is quite the dashing fellow.
Storms kept it from being held outside like it was supposed to, but the event went on and was super immersive. People from church each took a story from the Bible and brought it to life. I should have taken more photos.
We were just about the last ones to visit. The Hoyts were having dinner at our house and the time kept slipping away.
That worked out really well for the kids; they got pretty much all of the left over candy at the end.
Tab had a paper due so she responsibly stayed home while Marie, Johanna, Katriel, William and Victorious went. Marie collected enough candy for the two of them, and they put it all on the floor and divvied it up.
It was NOT an easy path to this driver’s license.
Turning sixteen when the state was still shut down was no picnic.
My friend Jennifer saw a news story on TV indicating there would be SOME in person DMV hours opening up in July 2020. We had to go to Greece. The mall was dead. We were masked. Had to stand in line outside the DMV bc of all the restrictions. She DID get her permit that day… and then we spent the next hunk of time playing rotating vehicles as even JOHN had to get driven to/from work that whole summer (the boys were working full-time further away).
Then we moved states. New permit was easy enough, and only cost us a whopping $2.50. (We aren’t in NY anymore.) But then it was STILL more car sharing. There was rarely a vehicle available for her to use.
Fast forward to 2022.
She didn’t pass her road test. She was driving a car she rarely drives and the dude testing her told her she had to wear a mask and drive with the windows open. She was flustered and he was a little much.
Sweet, wise girl… she suggested she take a lesson.
I found a place online – a driving school run by two retired South Carolina State Troopers. We went out to meet him and he determined she was definitely ready to pass the test. WE FOUND OUT that in SC, driving schools are authorized to test you! You just take the papers to the DMV! They technically CAN retest you for quality control. But they didn’t. And the long road was over. License in hand – here she comes, Bob Jones!
It was a busy week.
Marie was patient waiting for her birthday celebration.
She requested, and received, Oreo cheesecake.
Her gifts from mom and dad included three packages. Each one had a small construction paper cut out of an article of clothing. I will take her shopping and she can find a few outfits for college. BJU has a dress code, and it will be fun doing our first ever “Back to School” shopping.
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