What a weekend! Mom and I spent all day Saturday driving around seeing museums. The first one, Saunders County Historical Museum, was nice. While in the area, we went to see my old school. I have pictures and I'll put it up on a journal entry.

The second museum, Cass County Historical Museum, was a disappointment. It was basically one room. It was neat to see the Victorian parlor they had set up, and the Pioneer room, but there wasn't much else of interest.

Sunday was spent packing, Monday mom drove me down partway to my sisters. We stopped in Marysville and saw the Pony Express Museum and the Doll Museum. That was neat. Then, on the way to my sisters, we stopped at Alcove Spring (a stop on the Oregon trail). I wrote about Alcove spring in Erin Glen, so the experience may be helpful. It's a beautiful spot.

James sent me six red roses today! He's so sweet. He's missing me more than I'm missing him, I think. I'm just taking it day by day and trying not to think that it's 2 1/2 more weeks (there may be one more week added on to my stay here, I'm thinking hard about it).

I've been working on getting settled here, learning where things are (both in the house and around town) and learning about the children's schoolwork. One of the girls is having serious trouble in math and it is taxing my teaching skills as well as my patience. It's not that she can't do it, but that she's in a class beyond her current capabilities and it's frustrating for her. Poor girl.

I've been working on Kisses from Heaven. The characterization is going slowly. There are questions in the 'interview' (questions we have to answer about our character for class) that are making me really think about the character. Also what is making it take so long, is that I come up with a nice idea to add to his character, but decide to check out if it fits in the time period. So I spend time researching to see, of course it doesn't (Murphy's law). So, I have to spend additional time coming up with a suitable replacement. I've spent a total of at least two hours on one chracter. I'm beginning to want to hurry and get to writing the story. It's frustrating work to me.

So, now I'm behind in the class. Plus, I was supposed to read 4 chapters this week in the class book, which hasn't arrived from Amazon.com yet. When it does arrive, it will arrive at my mom's and she'll have to now mail it down to me here. When I ordered it, I thought it could make it there that same week, it didn't. (Murphy's law, again)

I haven't worked on Silver Star yet. James sent my notebook with the written chapters in it yesterday. Maybe it will be here tomorrow (doubt it though, Murphy's). I completely forgot until just now that I still need to read through the rest of the chapters. ::slaps forehead::