It’s been a fun day, today!  I always enjoy spending time with my church family and starting the week with God as the focus.  Today was also the day we celebrated Chet’s birthday.  He turned 51 on Thursday, and trying to coordinate 6 work schedules (all fairly irregular hours) can be tricky.  Today we all were able to have lunch together, and then most of us were able to head to the house after for presents and dessert.  Had lots of fun playing with our little grandson, Owen.  He’s almost 4 months old now and smiling and cooing and just adorable and fun in general!  I signed (finger spelled) his name to him several times and he seemed pretty interested in watching.  A couple of times he moved his hands trying to imitate me!  So cool!  I loved it!  Speaking of signing, Chet had a real life experience with it at work the other day.  He was working the drive through at Starbucks and a deaf woman came through.  He’s seen her before and this time he signed “Hi” to her and told her that he was learning sign language.  Then he asked her name and told her his …things we’ve covered in class.  She seemed to enjoy it and later his boss told Chet that it’s the first time he’s seen her smile in the store!  I thought that was such a great story!  We’ve only had 3 classes (roughly 6 hours) and I thought it was so cool that he could do that and wasn’t too shy to try it, either (yes, I know that “shy” and “Chet” don’t really belong in the same sentence!) I need to practice this week’s new vocabulary and do some reviewing before class tomorrow night.  We’re getting enough vocabulary to make quite a few sentences and responses.  I’m looking forward to it.  Now that I’ve tried a neck loop, I spent the whole time this morning in church wishing I had one.  I think I will probably get on that this week and make a final decision about which product to order.  Can’t wait to have my own!