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The Dr and stuff

I took Sarah to the Children's Dr for a hearing test. She needs to routinely get checked so we can get speech therapy. This time it was more important. The insurance generally pays for 60 sessions. Then they want you to take a break. But Sarah needs more therapy. So her Dr agreed to allow more. She really is making good progress, but it will still take time. And by time, I mean years. I'm hoping in 2 or 3 years you will not tell she had a speech problem. But that's 2 or 3 years of work. It's worth it!

The kids have soccer again today, if it doesn't rain. Last week it was cancelled because of rain. Right now it doesn't look good.

The hand worker is going to finish the kitchen today (maybe). He did work on it for 2 hours last night. It will be nice to finally have it finished.

I need to go to Sarah's parent teacher meeting tonight. These things are often a waste of time. But it's a new school, and I should go.

A family was going to look at our house in Leimen tonight, but they canceled. They wanted the house for them and an older parent. But they don't think they can divide the house well. Sad, they seemed very serious. I'm trying not to get anxious about this. It's out of my hands... Please just keep praying that we can sell our house in Leimen. God is greater then a bad real-estate market!

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