TGFI

That's not a typo.

Not TGIF. Today is Monday.

Thank God For (the) Internet. TGFI

(Or Thank *OD For (the) Internet, T*FI, for my fundamentalist reader who won't write G-O-D. If it helps, you can think of this post as a prayer petition. I am truly thankful for the internet tonight.)

Been working with Hannah on her 4-H Photography project and we've been saved by the internet. A previously not known by me requirement of 3 activities in a manual has surfaced here at the late date of 4 days pre-judging. With Hannah in one place, me in another and some of her photos in a third, it's been a bit of technological slight of hand to make this happen.

TGFI

My family has a checkered 4-H past. Three girls, all 10 year 4-Hers, all knowing the fair began the third week of July with judging the previous week. I was never able to convince them that the 4-H motto is not "Any project worth doing is worth waiting until July 1 to begin." Our week before the fair experience was filled with sleepless nights, tears of frustration and meals eaten standing in the kitchen because every table in the house was covered with someone's work in progress. By judging day the house was silent--a combination of sheer exhaustion and that fact that no one was on speaking terms with anyone else.

I have trouble believing Hannah's projects have been completed with so little drama. It just seems un-natural, not befitting the 4-H way as my girls knew it. There's still time though. The project goes in at 7:30 on Thursday morning and Hannah's not a morning person...