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So we worked all week for the big moment, setting up the marriage conference - and by all accounts, it has been a great success.  One of these years, we'll actually get to attend one of these, but the workload was such again this year that it just wasn't possible.  You can see the circus theme in the design above, which was one of the reasons Daddy wrote out all those circus-themed messages, and planned to do all this circus stuff at KidPak in February.  It was a little of that, and the fact that there are actually three circuses touring in Georgia in the month of February.  We're only going to have time to see one, but then again, how many do you need to see in a month?  One is just fine.  That'll be next Thursday, which should be fun.

Today was a huge work day, where we started setting things up early.  It was very cold and very wet all day though - we got lots and lots of rain again.  We've had a very rainy season of late, overcast skies and a gloominess in general.  Yet, our spirits aren't really that downcast - for one reason, we need the rain.  The other reason:  spring is on the way.  It's got to be!  It does turn out the groundhog here in Georgia was right about his prediction though:  six more weeks of winter.  It's been pretty chilly lately.

We worked late into the night tonight, partly on the conference and partly on KidPak's services this upcoming Sunday.  Madison had school today, and Daddy saw very little of her.  Mommy stayed home with Madison, the two of them having a quiet evening together.  Quiet, at least, compared to the activity that was going on at church.  We had thousands there, every couple having a great time at the event.

Part of the fun was dressing up for the old-time circus look.  We were basing it on that "Water for Elephants" time period, so Mommy got us all suspenders and caps, plus the shirts and pants to go with them.  All the guys had suspenders on, and those caps.  It was like we were a bunch of newsboys!

Daddy was able to write the scripts for Sunday tonight, but a funny thing happened when Pastor was needing some luggage that fits this time period.  It was to be stacked up on the stage for his message, along with a small chair and a whip (for a lion tamer bit).  It just so happens that Mommy and Daddy bought some of that exact kind of needed luggage this past Monday.  No joke!  So Daddy raced home to get that, and while he was there, he picked up Madison's desk chair to be used for the lion tamer bit.  And guess what Mommy had gotten late in the mail today.  Yes, you guessed it:  a whip.  We were able to get all that in just in time, and it all worked out well.

The neat thing was it gave Daddy an excuse to run home for a moment.  He got to see Mommy and Madison for a short bit - too short, really - but he was certainly grateful for the opportunity.  Madison was busy drawing Superhero Squad characters doing various things - it's usually Iron Man and Iron Girl battling zombies or something.  I'm not entirely sure where she's picking up the zombie motif from, but it seems harmless at the moment.  Mommy and Daddy are not zombie fans so much as many others seem to be.  I mean, it's just walking dead people, right?  Daddy played "Typing of the Dead" and "I Made a Game with Zombies in It," and of course we laughed when we saw Michael Jackson's "Thriller" for the first time.  But that's about it as far as zombies go.  Society in general, however, seems to be really into zombies.  There are new movies made all the time (one just came out this month), and there's an ongoing television series that's very popular.  On top of that, there are video games coming out all the time.  Anyway, it's a popular thing now, and it's apparently seeped into Madison's awareness a bit, probably from friends at school.  At least I hope that's where it came from!