This has been such an exiting summer visiting new places and seeing new sights! The past couple weeks have simmered down a bit, though. Dwight made a trip up to Huatabampo to take care of some paperwork regarding the selling of the property up there. Afterward, he went up to Oregon to do some engineering for a couple weeks. Kristi and I have settled down to a normal routine of coming to the shop to work about 8 hours a day and resting in the evenings and weekends.
Our normal tasks are design work, customer service, packaging and shipping, creating new material, and working on the new CD for 2012. The task of customer service and packaging and shipping has fallen to Kristi and me for the time being until we find a local to hire. We have shipped 57 orders since the beginning of July (including the orders we'll send out tomorrow). Clients call Kristi at any time any day ordering material, and we ship out the paid orders every Tuesday and Thursday.
My main job has been design work for the 2012 curriculums. I've finished the VBS design work: 5 books, CD and DVD and DVD box labels, posters, flyers, certificates, and a website. I've also created a poster and banner for the 2012 tour, the book covers for all 3 units of 4 age groups of the 2012 Sunday School curriculum, and some supplemental material.
Last Saturday we visited the center of Mexico City. We saw an old Aztec museum, the Mexican equivalent of the White House, and all the famous statues and buildings down the main street. Afterward Kristi and I fought over who paddled the boat harder on a gorgeous lake in a park near the zoo. Sundays we take a day of rest unless we're on tour. This last Sunday I was ready for it.
I encourage myself that it may seem ho-hum to do office work for weeks on end, but it's exciting to remember that next year thousands of churches will be using the products I'm making right now!! Wooot! Praise God!!
