Class President

 M is the president of her class at church and has been doing little things for the girls in the past few months.  She helped make CTR earrings and delivered them before school started.  She also bought some candy and made little bags that she has been delivering with a door visit to each girl. 

She participated in the yard sale and helped a lot.  She also had it strongly reinforced that we can save a lot of money if we look around for used things instead of buying on amazon.

adventure

 We had a lot of rain recently and the stream has overflowed into the oxbow and ravine in our back yard.  M had the idea of putting the kayak in which we did tonight after dinner.  She had the idea also of putting the kayak in at the place we usually dump leaves and branches.  There was a tree root there and nice solid tuft of turf that made it easy to get in and out.  It was exciting!  It was hard to navigate with the stream completely overflowing.  We crashed through low branches and had to carefully get through narrow flow through spots.  It was awesome.