I spent the morning and early afternoon helping our friends, Chris and Jen Jones, pack up the rest of their house. Wow! We flew around getting things boxed and loaded and/or stored in the attic for later so that the new renters/owners could move in right behind them. We really accomplished quite a lot in a short period of time.
It was a bittersweet day. I was glad to be able to help but at the same time I will miss Jen a lot. She went out of her way to make me feel included when we first arrived at New Life. She made the transistion so much easier for me and I am so grateful to her for that. There are some things about life in the ministry that only another preacher's wife can understand and relate to. I know we'll keep in touch but it won't be the same as having her just a few miles up the road. I'll miss you, Jen, and I love ya'!
Monday, July 16, 2007
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Praise to God
I just got home from tailgate service a few minutes ago. I really enjoy the laid back atmosphere of our summer services and tonight was especially awesome. We had two baptisms tonight. Darren and Jackie Pollitt went to see a couple this afternoon and tonight they gave their lives to Jesus Christ! What a wonderful ending to this Lord's Day. It is so neat to know that there are angels rejoicing in heaven over these two souls. God is so good!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
I Love VBS?
Okay, I have to be completely honest and say that Darren is driving me insane (or at least more insane than usual)! This is Wednesday and I have not been home one day this week so far. Where have I been, you ask. Well, we are gearing up for one huge shindig of a VBS. I went to church Monday morning with the intention of making three VBS signs for the church yard. You know, nothing fancy. Just simple signs with all the required information. But no, my husband turned something very simple into something very complex. My three simple signs turned into one 8 ft. x 8 ft. sign, two 8 ft. x 4 ft. signs, and two 4 ft. x 4 ft. signs. So, I've been painting signs for the past three days. I finally finished them right before Bible study this evening. Then he hands me 12 more smaller posters and tells me they need to be transformed into Bus Stop signs (front and back) to be posted all over town. So I set to work on them after Bible study and finished them at about 9:30 p.m. tonight. Am I done yet you want to know? Of course not. Now I have to make signs for the side of the VBS Ice Cream Bus that will be running all over town next week to do some advance advertising. Will it never end?
Sunday, July 8, 2007
A Long Day & Night
Am I the only one who likes to sleep in on Saturdays? Well, that was my plan yesterday but as usual my plans seldom come to fruition. I woke to the sound of Darren's cell phone ringing at 7:15 a.m. A person (who shall remain nameless) was calling to see if we were interested in buying a lawn mower they had found at a yard sale. Now first off, we most definitely don't need a lawn mower and secondly, who in their right mind is thinking of mowing the lawn at 7:15 in the morning? But regardless, the damage was done, and I was wide awake so there was nothing left to do but get up and get moving. The day never got a whole lot better......
At about 10:30 Darren called from Maysville (where he had gone to pick up some supplies for church) and asked if I wanted to meet him there and go to the Ceasar's Creek Flea Market in Wilmington, Ohio. The boys were all for it so I told him we would be there in about 45 minutes. Again, so much for plans. We got ready and went out to start the Durango and nothing happened. Not even a spit or a sputter. The battery was flat. Now this is usually not a problem since we have three vehicles so there is always a spare to get a jump from but not so this day. Our van is in the shop having its transmission rebuilt and Darren was driving the car so there we were. Lucky for us our neighbor just happened to pull in about that time and saw the hood up. He came over and gave me a jump and we were on our way...about 30 minutes behind schedule...but on our way nonetheless.
We went to the flea market and looked around. We didn't really buy anything except lunch and some ice cream but we enjoyed ourselves anyway. We came home about 7:30 p.m. and I headed for the pool a little while later to do some much needed vacuuming. I came in at 9:30 p.m. and decided to just let my hair dry and save the shower for this morning which is something I never do. I ALWAYS shower immediately after getting out of the pool but oh no, not this time. What was I thinking!?
I had just gotten in bed and laid down at about 11:00 p.m. when the phone rang. It was my mom calling from my sisters in Paducha. She was calling to tell me that my other sister, Alicia (whose husband is training to go to Iraq and has the 2 year old and new baby), had just called to tell them that she was at the ER in Carlisle with Eli (the 2 year old) and that they were transferring him to UK Med Center. My mom was upset that they were so far away and Alicia was all alone. Soooo I immediately jumped up out of bed (having had no shower and head still damp from the pool), threw on some clothes, woke Jarrod up so he could go with me, and headed for Lexington to meet Alicia at the ER at UK. They thought Eli might have appendicitis. Alicia said he just all of a sudden started screaming and holding his side. He wasn't able to walk or stand up straight and was running a fever. The ER in Carlisle felt that it was a probably appendicitis so there was supposed to be a pediatric surgeon waiting when they arrived at UK. Well, he (or she) might have been waiting but not at UK. We spent hours waiting for them to take him for a CT scan which finally occured at about 5:00 a.m. and they finally sent us home at about 6:45 a.m. The kicker is that we still don't know what's going on. They couldn't see the appendix on the CT scan but said that "it didn't appear that there was any inflamation around the appendix." The ER doc said that appendicitis is extremely difficult to diagnose in kids under 5 and that 90 percent of the time they don't catch them until they've ruptured. He said that while his blood count was elevated and he was complaining of abdominal pain that they couldn't be sure that it was appendix so they released him with instructions for Alicia to take him to her pediatrician's after-hours clinic to be checked again today. So we finally made it home (by the sheer grace of God I might add) at 8:00 a.m. this morning. I immediately went to bed and slept until 12:30 this afternoon. I had planned on trying to go to church this morning but it just didn't happen. Darren took Jacob and Noah with him and Jarrod and I were dead to the world. It felt really weird to miss church. The only other time I've missed church in the past 10 years is when I was in the hospital after Noah was born.
As of now Eli is still having bouts of intermittent severe pain where he screams and clutches his side and he still has a fever. Alicia called the after-hours clinic only to be told that they don't see ER follow-up patients and that she would need to take him back to the ER to be checked. So for now she is watching him closely and waiting. Please keep all of them in your prayers.
On a high note though Alicia and Eli got to see Rob for the first time in over a month yesterday. He was finally able to get his web cam working so they were able to have a good video chat. She said Eli was so excited that he was kissing the computer screen. I had to laugh at her because she said she looked awful. She told him that had she known he was going to get it working she would've showered and fixed her hair. I doubt he really cared or even noticed.
At about 10:30 Darren called from Maysville (where he had gone to pick up some supplies for church) and asked if I wanted to meet him there and go to the Ceasar's Creek Flea Market in Wilmington, Ohio. The boys were all for it so I told him we would be there in about 45 minutes. Again, so much for plans. We got ready and went out to start the Durango and nothing happened. Not even a spit or a sputter. The battery was flat. Now this is usually not a problem since we have three vehicles so there is always a spare to get a jump from but not so this day. Our van is in the shop having its transmission rebuilt and Darren was driving the car so there we were. Lucky for us our neighbor just happened to pull in about that time and saw the hood up. He came over and gave me a jump and we were on our way...about 30 minutes behind schedule...but on our way nonetheless.
We went to the flea market and looked around. We didn't really buy anything except lunch and some ice cream but we enjoyed ourselves anyway. We came home about 7:30 p.m. and I headed for the pool a little while later to do some much needed vacuuming. I came in at 9:30 p.m. and decided to just let my hair dry and save the shower for this morning which is something I never do. I ALWAYS shower immediately after getting out of the pool but oh no, not this time. What was I thinking!?
I had just gotten in bed and laid down at about 11:00 p.m. when the phone rang. It was my mom calling from my sisters in Paducha. She was calling to tell me that my other sister, Alicia (whose husband is training to go to Iraq and has the 2 year old and new baby), had just called to tell them that she was at the ER in Carlisle with Eli (the 2 year old) and that they were transferring him to UK Med Center. My mom was upset that they were so far away and Alicia was all alone. Soooo I immediately jumped up out of bed (having had no shower and head still damp from the pool), threw on some clothes, woke Jarrod up so he could go with me, and headed for Lexington to meet Alicia at the ER at UK. They thought Eli might have appendicitis. Alicia said he just all of a sudden started screaming and holding his side. He wasn't able to walk or stand up straight and was running a fever. The ER in Carlisle felt that it was a probably appendicitis so there was supposed to be a pediatric surgeon waiting when they arrived at UK. Well, he (or she) might have been waiting but not at UK. We spent hours waiting for them to take him for a CT scan which finally occured at about 5:00 a.m. and they finally sent us home at about 6:45 a.m. The kicker is that we still don't know what's going on. They couldn't see the appendix on the CT scan but said that "it didn't appear that there was any inflamation around the appendix." The ER doc said that appendicitis is extremely difficult to diagnose in kids under 5 and that 90 percent of the time they don't catch them until they've ruptured. He said that while his blood count was elevated and he was complaining of abdominal pain that they couldn't be sure that it was appendix so they released him with instructions for Alicia to take him to her pediatrician's after-hours clinic to be checked again today. So we finally made it home (by the sheer grace of God I might add) at 8:00 a.m. this morning. I immediately went to bed and slept until 12:30 this afternoon. I had planned on trying to go to church this morning but it just didn't happen. Darren took Jacob and Noah with him and Jarrod and I were dead to the world. It felt really weird to miss church. The only other time I've missed church in the past 10 years is when I was in the hospital after Noah was born.
As of now Eli is still having bouts of intermittent severe pain where he screams and clutches his side and he still has a fever. Alicia called the after-hours clinic only to be told that they don't see ER follow-up patients and that she would need to take him back to the ER to be checked. So for now she is watching him closely and waiting. Please keep all of them in your prayers.
On a high note though Alicia and Eli got to see Rob for the first time in over a month yesterday. He was finally able to get his web cam working so they were able to have a good video chat. She said Eli was so excited that he was kissing the computer screen. I had to laugh at her because she said she looked awful. She told him that had she known he was going to get it working she would've showered and fixed her hair. I doubt he really cared or even noticed.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
A day off
Darren decided to take a very rare day off from work today. He told the boys last night and they set about planning a family activity for us. They discussed Kings Island and the Beach waterpark (both of which I persuaded them against since this is the biggest vacation week of the summer) and finally decided that they would like to take a picnic lunch and go hang out for the day on the beach at Cave Run Lake. So we went to bed last night with visions of sandcastles dancing in our heads but when we woke up this morning the weather was uncooperative. So, we had to come up with a new plan. I got online and did a web search on the Lexington Children's Museum which is now known as the Explorium. I ran it past the kids and they liked the idea and thus "Plan B" was born.
We arrived in Lexington at lunch time so we grabbed a bite to eat at Arbys in the Civic Center food court and then went to the Explorium. It was AWESOME! The whole place is hands-on and self-guided so we were able to spend as much time in the exhibits as we wanted and even move on and come back to the kids' favorites later. There were exhibits about horses, water, dinosaurs, homes of the world, a bubble room where you could enclose yourself in a bubble, the human heart and brain, space and more. There is even a play area for kids under three with a water play area, reading area, and pretend toys. Noah and I had a "picnic" complete with the basket and the red and white checked blanket. He had the fried chicken and I had a hotdog. Yummy! We spent about three hours just playing and having a good time. We would've stayed longer but Noah's diaper had reached its load limit and I didn't have a spare. All three boys loved it. It was well worth the $5 per person admission and we will definately be making a return trip. We may even have to consider a youth trip in the near future. I highly recommend it to anyone with kids of any age.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Happy Fourth of July!
Just wanted to wish everyone Happy 4th of July! We are so fortunate to live in a country where we are free. Free to have our own opinions. Free to make our own life choices. Free to think and be whatever we want. And best of all, free to worship God without fear of persecution. We have no idea how fortunate we truly are.
So, to everyone out there, take a moment to ponder your freedoms and the blessings that God has given you and remember that without God, the United States of America is simply "One Nation Under." So enjoy your freedoms and Happy Independence Day!
P.S. A special thank you to the men and women who are serving our country to make sure that our freedoms are not taken away!
So, to everyone out there, take a moment to ponder your freedoms and the blessings that God has given you and remember that without God, the United States of America is simply "One Nation Under." So enjoy your freedoms and Happy Independence Day!
P.S. A special thank you to the men and women who are serving our country to make sure that our freedoms are not taken away!
Ratatouille
Darren told Jacob last night that he would take he and Jarrod to the movies. This is pretty much standard at our house. We seldom all go together because you never know how Noah will behave in the theater. I was quick to protest their plan last night because well, heck, I can't tell you the last time I got to see a movie. I'm always the designated babysitter. So Darren offerred (half-heartedly) to stay home with Noah and let me take Jarrod and Jacob to Maysville Cinema 4. So at 9:15 p.m. the three of us set out for Maysville for the 10:00 p.m. showing of the new Disney movie, Ratatouille.
After 26 minutes of commercials (yes, that's right commercials. What's up with that?) and previews the movie finally started. It was suprisingly good. I would recommend it to anyone. We all laughed and enjoyed ourselves. And hey, the popcorn was excellent. My compliments to the chef!
After 26 minutes of commercials (yes, that's right commercials. What's up with that?) and previews the movie finally started. It was suprisingly good. I would recommend it to anyone. We all laughed and enjoyed ourselves. And hey, the popcorn was excellent. My compliments to the chef!
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