Where has this month gone?

Even though we haven't done a lot this month, January is almost gone. Where did it go??

Bible study is going well. There are 18 ladies in the morning and 10 in the evening. The time commitment from each of these ladies is amazing. Beth's Bible studies are demanding - there is about an hour of homework for 5 days a week and then our weekly meetings last between 2-1/2 and 3 hours. It adds up to about 8 hours a week. Each of the ladies is precious and I'm privileged, honored and humbled to lead them.

Choir is also challenging - our new director is taking us in a whole new direction. He is young so most of the music we are singing is contemporary which is very different from the traditional choir music we have sung for years. However, our Easter cantata is more towards the traditional we are used to. I don't mind the contemporary, but it seems he has "thrown the baby out with the bathwater." In other words, rather than mixing the new contemporary with the traditional to get us used to the new style, he has gone completely to contemporary.

Aunti Vi is doing wonderfully. Monday, she'll be moving out of her apartment for 2 weeks while they put new windows in. We're going to go down and make sure the move goes smoothly and get her settled in her temporary location. She hopes to be back in her apartment by the 10th of February.

Tuesday we're going to go over to Orlando to have dinner with friends we worked with at Ameritech. They retired before we did and moved to South Carolina. We haven't seen them for about 8 years so it will be fun to see them and catch up.

Wednesday, we're going to go and pick Aunti Vi up and head for the gulf to have lunch. It should be fun - there are several restaurants out on Anna Maria Island that front right on the gulf. Since her temporary apartment is half the size of her regular apartment, we want to make sure she gets out. Her regular apartment overlooks Wares Creek (which is a tributary of the Manatee River) and her temporary apartment overlooks a parking lot - UGH!

Like I said, nothing much happening so where did the month go??