Keal Family Letter, May 2007

Hello Friends and Family!


The Spring-Time weather has arrived here in Lenhartsville! We are spending most of our days outside now; playing in the swings, digging in the sand-box, helping Meemaw, and Deedaw in the garden, going on walks, eating meals outside.

Tirah is now in week 27 of 40. The baby is the size of an ear of corn. Tirah now weighs more than I do. She's a very tired Mama! We are all looking forward to maternity leave in July. But she has more energy that she probably would if she wasn't taking Body Balance right now. (An aloe-vera, sea vegetable liquid supplement). In fact we're all taking it, and it's helping all of us. I'm no longer taking Sam-E for depression, and I seem to have a higher tolerance for sugar. Pretty cool stuff.

Thea and Cirdan are doing well, although they both have a "night-time" cough right now. Around Easter we took the kids up to Hawk Mountain for a "Raptor Egg Hunt," in which a whole bunch of little kids got a short and humorous lecture about birds of prey, and then we all marched off into the woods to hunt for little wooden "raptor eggs" that the "Spring-Time Raptor" had hidden for them. It was a lot of fun... except that it was snowing!

A couple of weeks ago I took the kids (with Tamar and Dandridge and family) to the Lehigh Valley Zoo, which we had never been to before. It's a nice size Zoo for little kids.

On May 1st, Tirah and the kids got to participate in a May Pole Dance at Gray Glenn's.

We started up our second round of Marriage Support Group here in Kempton last Tuesday night (May 1st). We may even have a slightly larger group than we had the first time, which is very exciting for us, because at first it was looking like we might not have enough people at all. But we had several last minute couples joining. It's a lot of fun to be doing it again!

Oh, some exciting news: We paid off our Subaru Outback! (Thanks to our tax refund!) Which is perfect timing, because we are about to out-grow it! Once the baby is born, we won't all fit into the wagon. So we will be looking for a mini-van pretty soon.

We also may be moving within the next 12 months. Not only are we out-growing our car, but our shared household as well. After considering all the possible options, it seems like the best plan for everyone will be for us to find an apartment that we can afford and also fit into. So the house hunting has begun! I'm actually hoping that the house next-door will become available for rent soon, and we can simply move one house over. It would be less of a culture-shock for the kids, since Meemaw and Deedaw will be right next-door. The ideal will be to find a place that has three bed-rooms, plus a space for my studio (essentially a four-bedroom place) for something that we can afford. We'll see what happens. The Lord is in charge.

If any of you want sheet music for my piano compositions, please let me know which ones you would like. "Star Gazing" is done and available here: http://www.lulu.com/solomonkeal. And I'm working on "Surrender," from my latest album.

Roxanne and I will be starting to record the flute and piano album this month! Yay!

Well, that's all for now. Gotta go back outside!

Love,
Solomon, Tirah, Thea, Cirdan, and Baby Keal.