MARCH MADNESS
(Monday) A glance at my calendar suggests that this is going to be a crazy month. There are two trips to Chicago. And we're going to Arizona once for my parent's 50th anniversary. I have an extra preaching assignment this week and then a Covenant Village of Turlock management advisory committee meeting next week (I'm hoping they'll let me "retire" off that committee this spring). None of these things in and of themselves is too stressful. But there will be a lot of coming and going.

The month has started off well, though. Kent got up this morning and checked his University of California pathways account and discovered that he has been accepted for admission to UC Irvine. This doesn't really come as a major surprise since they sent him an unsolicited letter last fall telling him that if he applied he would be accepted. Still, it's nice to have at least one acceptance in hand. He has applied to three other UC campuses but they don't post their admissions until later this month. He has worked hard to get to this point.