Archives for September 2006

I know my posts are still pretty sporadic. This weekend was somewhat boring. Saturday we had a choir lunch and then my niece was in a pageant. She won a Sweetheart and Future Queen award. Sunday was Mom’s birthday and we went out to eat with them.

Sunday morning we only had 2 people in our Sunday School class. A little disheartening after all that work. But the two that were there that were smart girls that were easy to teach.

Tonight starts the girls bible study. I’m nervous as heck for some reason. Haven’t been nervous at all about Sunday School after I’ve gotten the lesson together. But today, I feel nervous. I think it’s because I’m not teaching, I’m more facilitating and I guess I’m nervous about having to keep everyone on point and talking about appropriate things. I really want the girls to participate and I guess I have to give up some control for that. It’s really a great group of girls that are supposed to come so even if we just chat for an hour, it should be good. Two more signed up Sunday night after two had cancelled on me so I was glad I wasn’t out of the money I had already paid.

We had massive drama at about midnight with one of the youth last night. It was our first “middle of the night” (I was still up watching 9-11 footage) experience since we’ve been youth leaders. I can’t really expound on the issue except that another youth leader who lives in the same neighborhood as the youth pastor had to go wake the youth pastor up because he could not be reached by phone. The police were called and in the end, nothing really happened except about 6 people didn’t get to sleep until 2am!

My BIL got a job Friday, he started today. Whoo Hoo!

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Today is 5 years since 9-11. I still remember sitting at my desk downtown, thinking it was a small plane and not even guessing it could be terrorism. I called Scott and said, did you hear about that plane that hit that building in New York? Honestly, I wasn’t even extremely familiar with the buildings. I of course had seen them and knew about them but the extent of their importance and significance did not dawn on me. I remember people at work moving to a conference room to watch and one girl crying when the building came down.

And today, they replayed that same footage I watched. And it all felt like a horrible movie. How much they didn’t know!!! At that exact moment that the buildings were burning and then falling, two more planes were in the air getting ready to do more damage. At that moment, the guys on the plane were calling their family and 911 operators were answering calls about planes the media didn’t even know about. How helpless I felt watching it over again. I saw the people walking from the cloud of dust and I wanted to scream Run! You need to Run!

It’s just horrible watching it all again. Of course new tapes talk about new plots. And that gives you a whole other sense of hopelessness and helplessness. I can’t but selfishly hope it never affects me or anyone I know but I also know it will affect someone and I feel so horrible for them. I pray for all the family and friends of those already affected and Lord help, pray for anything else this country has to go through.

We went to see Shane & Shane last night along with the Peasall Sisters who sang on O, Brother, Where Art Thou? They were both AWESOME. Peasall sisters opened for them and although all 3 were incredibly talented, they sang for AN HOUR. Quite an opening act. I could have done with about half of that. Shane & Shane were absolutely awesome though. I never had heard them. Yesterday I checked up on them on their web site and loved the song playing. But hearing it live, with a real cello and base and drums and guitars, it was just cool. I plan to buy their album for sure.

Tonight I have a reunion meeting and youth group. I’m going to skip out of the meeting in time for youth. I really would rather not go to the meeting but she already sent out a note saying some people couldn’t attend and I do have stuff to give them.

So the past month the pastor has been talking about tithing and money, etc. We tithe but I had been convicted about helping beyond what we already do. One of our family members needs money right now. We decided to give them some money. Within a day, we had received the exact same amount of money from two different random sources. Amazing, huh?

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I feel like I can’t keep up with this site with everything going on. I had a productive long weekend which was great. Of course my clean house doesn’t look so clean already but at least I know it was for a short time.

What did I do this weekend? I have no idea. Uh, let’s see. Friday we went to Wal-Mart. Saturday we went to the hospital to see the baby. He is SO tiny. His little toes and fingers are like points on a pencil.

Saturday afternoon I had a very long conversation with SIL. If you know the history, she’s somewhat, uh, unpredictable. But finally we had an adult conversation about her issues as I saw them. I think it got through to her and I think we are better off for it.

Sunday was our first Sunday School class we taught. I thought it went REALLY well. The kids were not like bumps on a log and actually talked like they were at youth camp. Maybe because they know us now. And the smartest kid in the class-a homeschooled boy who had every answer for every question–said he really liked the class and actually learned something (or so I hear he said). So he’s going to keep me on my toes for sure. Which is good for me. And really, in the end, good for all of them so we can all learn together.

Scott and I thought we were having #3 Sunday night. After buying THREE pregnancy tests, I got my period the next morning. Yeah. But you know what’s weird, I don’t think I would have minded if I were. I have no clue what I would do about my job and working and everything but the thought of having another one didn’t really scare me off one bit. Of course Scott was like, let’s just not talk about it. I don’t think we will be planning any still but it’s good to know I won’t freak out if it happens unplanned.

Yesterday I went to Target and Moe’s with the girls all by my little lonesome. It was fabulous. I actually got to play with the kids and do what they wanted without being on a tight schedule and worrying about working. I wish I had that luxury every day.

Tonight we may go to a concert with the youth. All depends on whether my parents will watch the girls. They’ve been out of town all weekend, so they might.

All my shows are starting back up. Prison Break was really good last night. Wentworth is so cute! Tonight is House and I may watch Nip/Tuck. That show is really off it’s rocker. I mean, sometimes I feel like I have to close my eyes when I watch that show. They don’t joke when it comes to any sort of sexual issue. And I don’t like it for that. I don’t like to have to censor things myself. But the truth is, it’s good writing and good drama and you can’t make yourself turn the channel when you’re watching it.

Tomorrow we will probably go paint our Sunday School room. The 7th and 8th grade is green. The 10th and 11th is yellow/gold. I think I’m going to do a brown with a white and orange stripe thing in the middle. I don’t know, I hope it looks good because it’s going to be a lot of work.

Bible study starts next Monday. I feel pretty good about it. I hope I’m approaching it the same way they are. I don’t know if they are wanting more discussion on their part or more direction from us more than the book gave.

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