Baton Rouge Week 33

Hi there,
Each week seems to get faster and faster. That might be because things at work seem accelerated. Articles that we have been working on are nearing their first stage of completion. Dana and I have one back that we need to revise. I have a small one back from the English journal that needs only minor revisions. The paper that my graduate student and I have been working on is in the first writing stage. I think we will be able to get it out for review by the first of March. I am also giving a faculty lecture based on my dissertation work this Friday. I am using this opportunity to structure my first paper from my dissertation. I will need to put in a lot of thinking work this week.
We went to two movies this week, both were pretty mindless. We saw The Pink Panther 2 and New in Town. They were okay but we had fun going out together and getting away from work. I heard a church today that we missed an early Mardi Gras parade in downtown Baton Rouge. Apparently, many neighborhoods have family friendly parades from now until official Mardi Gras. We hope that we can find one during this week.
The big missionary event, the photo display I wrote about before, starts tonight and then continues for two weeks. We hope to encourage a few of our friends to drop by sometime in the next few weeks.
I tried to get the young men over to our house for mutual. I made Dutch oven chicken and rice and cherry chocolate cake. We had three of the nine attend. The difficulty of the whole activity program is that all of these boys go to a variety of schools and all participate in a wide variety of activities. Sometimes I am not quite sure if they even know what they are doing from week to week. It was fun for those who came and we were able to get to know those boys better.
We did have our second video chat with Amelia’s group. It lasted about ten minutes until one of the computers broke the connection. Evie and Miriam both did some drawing and Miriam was wearing her LSU cheerleading outfit. How appropriate sense LSU was given the recognition of having the number one overall football recruiting class this last week. Maybe there is hope for the LSU football team to have a better year than they had last year. We need to attend more of the athletic events. We haven’t been very good about that yet.
We are thinking about changing our property management people here in Baton Rouge. We interviewed another group and the end of last week. We need someone who communicates more actively. We just don’t feel like we know what they are doing or if they are doing anything. We need to keep them rented.
Sophia, Curtis, and Deacon are coming to visit during the first week of April. We are looking forward to that. It will be great to see them. We will be planning some fun things to do and see. We have extra rooms and visitors might force us to buy and put up some drapes. Hope to see you soon.
We love you. Take care of each other.
Love Dad and Dana