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Hey all,

I thought I would just gab a little tonight. I left my material on adolescent development at work and that is what I was going to write about.

So I will just tell you a little of what I have been up to this summer. First of all, I had my first grandchild on May 20th. Her name is Katherine, but she is called Rin. She lives in Raleigh, NC. I probably already told you all this.

At work, I am being moved into all training in August probably. Right now I am doing training and volunteer services.

I am trying to get my house ready to sell. I know it is a terrible time to sell, but I want to stop being a homeowner. I want to be able to call someone to fix stuff. So I have a repair man redoing the chimney and all kinds of repairs that I have put off. You know that those of us who work in social services don't have much money to put into houses anyway.

My youngest son is 20 and is hopefully moving into an apartment July 1. Anyway all of this is exciting.

I am looking forward to this Friday when I get to fly to Florida to train a lot of you all. It will be fun to meet you and learn together.

This month has been crazy. We have 5 weekends in June. The first one, I flew to Raleigh to see my grandaugher. The third one, I flew to Maryland for my family reunion, and now the 5th one, I am flying to Florida to train. Whew!

Yesterday I was invited on a pontoon boat at a lake about an hour from Nashville. It is a beautiful lake with trees all around and a lot of marinas on coves and inlets and little parts of the river. A lot of country music stars like Alan Jackson have houses there, but the houses are mostly hidden by the trees. We had fun swimming in the water and being pulled by the boat on one of those floaty thingees.

Then at 7pm (when the boat was supposed to be returned to the marina where my friend rented it) we realized that we had no idea where we were or where the marina was. And there were no landmarks, light houses or buoys or anything. Two and a half hours later we found it. I thought for sure I was going to have to sleep in wet clothes on an open boat all night.

It is a lesson to me to not forget where you came from, where you are going and where you want to go.

Till tomorrow,

LA