The best laid plans of bloggers...

I've been meaning to post for three days about the things going on and there's been so much going on it hasn't happened. :)

Saturday was our clothing drive at church. We work with Master Provisions to collect, sort, and pack clothing which is then sent to Ukraine. You can read the full story of the impact of these clothes on their website. Mark and I have been to Ukraine (and Kosova) with MP and can vouch for the amazing work they are doing. It was great to see Jim and get to catch up on the things happening in Ukraine and Kosova and to our friends over there. We collected about 1.5 tons of clothing that will be shipped over to Ukraine (most likely Brovary, a small suburb of Kyiv) later this year.

We have the top floor of the property we are managing rented out, and we sign the lease for the bottom floor tonight. It will be such a relief to get those both rented. Now we're into the "the shower is leaking" and "the kitchen faucet is leaking" stage. Tuesday Mark replaced the showerhead and yesterday he replaced the kitchen faucet. He hasn't been able to work on our house since Friday!

We started community band on Monday. I'm playing French horn and Mark's playing euphonium. So far it's a lot of fun, although it's a lot different than playing in the musical. It's a lot louder. Which sounds really stupid, but when you're used to being the only instrument and tuning to a small group it's a little overwhelming to be in the midst of 100 or so musicians, some of whom can tune better than others. ;) Next Tuesday is our first concert.

Mark has been interviewing like mad, and currently has two open offers and is anticipating another on Monday. We are really hoping for a good offer on Monday, as this could be something of a dream job for him, but we'll have to wait and see. I will definitely keep you posted!

Ukraine is still not accepting dossiers until the first of July. They filled their quota of dossiers to accept for the last quarter, so they won't start accepting again until the start of the next quarter. We are hoping for a quick submission but it's looking like we may have to redo documents again. *sigh* Please pray that our dossier would be submitted in the beginning of July.