Saturday, March 27, 2010

March trip to Little Rock

Gil and I had a lovely camp trip to Little Rock this spring, staying 3 nights at the Maumelle RV Campground on the Arkansas River. We had some business to attend to and also spent some time with friends while there. Carl and Darlene Kitchens took us to lunch one day at the Olive Garden and we had a nice visit with them there. One day the RV was in the shop to have some routine maintenance and then on Friday Gil had his checkup with his heart doctor for his annual stress test. He passed again this year.

To the right are a few pictures we took at the campground.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Mid March 2010

Spring has sprung in Camden and the 17th Annual Daffodil Festival was a huge success and attendance was largest in history. Many of the daffodils in my yard and the little field on the other side of the house where mama used to live were picked and used in the local businesses during the festival.

The kids are settled in China and Ed has started his 3rd week on the job of teaching English to the Chinese students both in Ivy English (private) School and several public schools. It is still cold and snowy there. DJ is growing with leaps and bounds and talks "baby jabber" to us on the skype webcam calls.

Gil and I have almost completed painting the 3 bedrooms and 3 baths in our home and it will be ready to put on the market first week of April. We have a business trip to Little Rock next week and we have company coming for the weekend we get back. Then I plan to visit my sister and mama in Louisiana before Easter.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Kitchens Family in China

I have not been posting anything lately because we have been so busy at my house painting the bedrooms and bathrooms getting ready to put our house on the market in April. We hope to move to Mena, AR, so Gil will be closer to the Christian Motorcycle Association Headquarters at Hatfield so he can do volunteer work there.

To update anyone interested, my son and his family are now settled in an apartment in Jaimasui, China, and he is teaching English at a private school as well as going into public schools there also teaching English. The school provides them with a furnished apartment including a babybed for little Destiny who is now six months old. Suzanne, who is 12 yrs. old, is being home schooled. Right now the weather is rather cold, getting to below zero at night and barely above freezing in the daytime. They have snow on the ground and seems like it will stay for a while. I have included some pictures they sent from their trip.