Fun signs of Spring at the Jordan house

Spring was here this week.  I don't think that it will be here next week, but I have enjoyed it greatly.  It is raining right now and gotten cooler, but we did need the rain, so I will be thankful for it and the sun that preceded it.  I had a wonderful blessing brought to my house this week.  You may wonder what ugly plant I am taking a picture of.  One of the men in the church knew that I LOVE red raspberries.  I really, really, really love them. Well, Les brought me over 12 volunteer plants that had come from his plants at home.  What a sweet blessing!  Did I mention that I LOVE red raspberries.  My family will attest to this.  When we lived in South Bend, I was able to go to our cousins in Coloma, MI  and get some from their fruit farm.  Even when we lived in PA my aunt used to freeze some for me so that when we were home I could have some.  I think with 12 plants, I may even get some into the house to make a pie with.  Dan may even get some.  My dear, sweet husband does not usually eat them as he knows I love them.  I call them gold as they are so expensive and precious.  I know, I just wrote a whole paragraph about raspberries, but it was a sweet blessing for me.

Another sign of spring----I hung my sheets out to dry.  I don't have a whole lot of line out, but there is enough to hang our sheets---one set at a time.  I love that smell of line dried sheets!

Peirce's track meet

Another first in our lives.  We are now in the world of track and field.  Neither Dan nor I had ever been to a track event before Tuesday evening.  Fortunately this one was close to home so the two hours between Peirce's events was not an issue.  We'll see how we keep ourselves occupied at the away events.  Peirce is doing the long jump which is a difficult event.  He is working on it.  The winners at our meet were over 19 feet.----High schoolers!  Amazes me.  The world record is 29'4".  Today we went out to the field for Peirce to work with a friend of ours who was a long jumper in high school.  He once held the state record for a few hours.---I laugh, but have I ever held a state record in anything???  We had a good time as Peirce learned some fundamentals and then beat Dan at a 400 yd. race.

Resurrection Sunday

It has been a while since I have blogged.  I have pictures to post and more, but time has been a little tight the past few weeks.  Kirsten and I have been working on some projects together.  I'll have to post some pictures of those.  She is becoming quite the crafter and baker.  She made an angel food cake for our company today by herself. (It was from a mix, but she did do it all on her own.)

Today was such a great day!  The past few days have been part of today, so I guess that I need to go back to then.  Friday evening was our Good Friday Service.  A few years ago a book entitled, "On a Hill Too Far Away"was brought into our lives.  This was the first year that we did a Good Friday Service while we lived in South Bend.  This service was different than what we had done there, but it was a somber service focusing on Christ's suffering and death.  Each year I am touched in a different way.

We performed our Easter Cantata Sat. evening and twice this morning.  My voice is worn out now, but it was great.  It was titled, "The Wonder of  the Cross".  It follows the last week of Christ's life through the resurrection. (For those of you from South Bend, it ends with a familiar song--"He's risen, Hallelujah" from a past cantata)  I'm excited to hear from a few people about some people that came to church today.  We had so many visitors today, but I know that there were a few people in second service who were very much skeptics.  Dan was able to give a wonderful presentation of the gospel.

Well, I need to go to bed--brain is still running, but morning will come, and I still have one student at home.  I pray that each of you had a blessed day!  The title song to the cantata had a wonderful message...." May I never lose the wonder, the wonder of the cross....."