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To-Do List

Our time right now is filled to the brim with:

1. Getting our house and garden ready to be gone for two months.
2. Buying wedding gifts and sewing wedding clothes.
3. Heaping "to take on furlough" things in a corner.
4. Making a photo album to show our friends in America.
5. Sorting through digital pictures of our work here to find the 100 that everyone will want to see on the slide show.
6. Preparing a table, brochures, and other items for our presentations.
7. Finishing up our first school year at Gateway to English.
8. Getting a "safari" made that will cover the school walls for the summer children's English lessons.
9. Brainstorming about what the summer lessons will include and worrying that everything will go smoothly.
10. Spending time in Warsaw with our yearly legal paperwork. Every year there are new wrinkles.
11. Having one precious afternoon and evening for just John and I (Thanks to Lavern and Lolita, our fellow Americans here).
12. Meeting with friends that are mourning the fact that we won't be here this summer.
13. Celebrating two birthdays before we leave.
14. Practicing our songs for the summer and weddings.We will be in states, Lord Willing, from June 19-August 30. (If you want more details about our trip, email me personally at jolasmucker@terramail.pl
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Anonymous said…
Laura, I will pray that things go smoothly, and that the Lord will give you travelling mercies.
Iain
7:18 AM
mybubblingteapot said…
It's crazy, Lisa, I don't know you well either, but I feel like I do through my sisters. It would be an honor to see you if you could make it. And you know where to find us if you find time. And, Ian, if there is a chance to meet in Oregon this summer, email me at the address on my post and we'll see if we can work it in.
11:51 PM
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