Remembering

Just found one of my many cousins from my mom's side of the family on blogger....his link is over to the left there....it's cool to find people when you aren't looking! The title is because in the last couple of weeks, I've been doing a "heritage report" for Nat for school. We had to interview my parents and such - one of the things that my mom wants Nat to remember about her mom is how she always said (she' s in a care facility w/Alzheimers) that God is good all the time, and all the time God is good. Interesting that Michael's mom (my aunt) has taught him the very same thing! My grandma is a woman of God, who has passed on her personal faith to all 9 of her kids! My other grandma is much the same way - she still has her mind tho, and so prays for all of us grandkids, our kids and her own kids by name each day - amazing for 90 years old. I think that verse in 3 John applies to both: I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

It is my prayer as well, as I raise 2 boys to walk with Christ in their own lives.

Long week

I know, its been at least a week since I last posted - things have been crazy. We've dealt not just with the church stuff, but also a bully situation w/Nat. There is one young man in his class who loves to antagonize kids until they react physcially, then when they respond or tell a teacher, he lies about what has happened & the other kid gets in trouble. Nat lost recess privileges one day this week over just such a situation - I wrote a note to the teacher in response to the discipline notice & she & Bob then had a good conversation after school one day. Seems we're not the only parents to actually write to her about this young man, which made me feel a little better that Nat isn't the only one getting picked on. We did assure her that we are teaching Nat that hitting is not the preferred method of getting back at someone, and she was very understanding. She said she didn't blame Nat at all for his response, only that it was physical & raised a welt on the young man's hand when the pencil made contact! In fact, she said that maybe just maybe it taught him a lesson!

Anyway - my parents up & went to Hawaii w/o us....oh well, I guess after 40 years of marriage, they can take business trip & turn it into pleasure if they want!

Chelle

Alone again

Well, Bob is off to Promise Keepers for the weekend...I'm getting used to being just me and the boys....

Been busy working for my friend Millie the last few days...she & her buddy run a business that lets people come in & prepare meals to freeze & cook later....aldentedinners.com.
The advertising department from the local paper was actually hosting their Christmas party this morning & letting each of them create one entree. We served breakfast, then did all the clean up. Been a long time since I did any catering - mid high school I think - but it was good.

The boys are watching "The Wild" - cute little movie if I must say so myself.

Had an interesting conversation with my coworkers the other day. Seems a patient had basically told one of the hygienists that she was going to hell because she didn't have a personal relationship with Christ. And that when it came to be judgement time, God would remind her of the time that he had told her & she refused. Along the way in the conversation (before she stuck all the sharp instruments in his mouth), he also made a comment about one of the Drs being "born again" - she says, "I thought he was a Baptist". He responds that no, he's born again. So, here we stand in the middle of the office with me explaining about how the whole Protestant movement began and where the term born again even comes from. I have one Lutheran, one Catholic, one believer, one who was raised Mormon, and one who isn't quite sure...anyway - tried to do the best I could - don't know that I did any good. They then were discussing Christian music - I happened to have the van, so I went out & got the Audio Adrenaline Adios CD....its a little harder than I think any of them expected. Oh well, we listened to Christian music all afternoon after that.

Having a hard time keeping my eyes open & its barely 8pm...time to lay down on the couch I guess....and have the boys wake me up when the movie is over!

Biopsy results

Got the results this morning....margins were clear, slightly abnormal tissue, which means that it was nothing now, but if I had waited much longer, it could have turned nasty. She wants to see me again in 6 months......

I've lost my oomph

its gone, bye bye.....all of a sudden, I hit the wall of not having the oomph to do much of anything...which is NOT a good thing when you're at work & will need to head to church in an hour or so.....

Suture removal

Or at least that's the technical name for getting one's stitches out....all five externals out today, hardly felt a thing. Biopsy had just arrived at the office & the Dr hadn't had time to look over the results, so I'm still waiting. Will let you know when I know.....