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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 6/8/2007 3:22:23 PM
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This was just something funny that I came across in my bulletins on MySpace. It made me laugh, so I decided to post it here.
Observations on the country
Body: You can live in Phoenix, Arizona where...
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1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2. You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the
toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that " dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face
when you open your oven door.
6. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING
ME??!!
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You can Live in California where...
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1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
3. You know how to eat an artichoke .
4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
>5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it
will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
6. The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought
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You can Live in New York City where...
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1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus
Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is "nature,"
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language
makes you multi-lingual.
5. You've worn out a car horn.
6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.
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You can Live in Maine where...
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1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for moose.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.
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You can Live in the Deep South where...
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! 1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2. "y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural.
3. "He needed killin'" is a valid defense.
4. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean,
MARY BETH, etc.
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You can live in Colorado where...
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1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and he stops
at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.
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You can live in Florida where..
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1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you are often driven by headless people
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You can live in the Midwest where...
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1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 6/11/2007 12:48:11 PM
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We're getting another van! A big one! This thing seats eleven people! The family that owns it is going to be just giving it to us, because they are getting another one. I'm so thankful to God for this blessing. Our station wagon was falling apart, and it was embarrassing to drive. This van actually looks pretty nice, too! It's older, but the engine was rebuilt a year ago and the transmission was replaced two years ago. It's not great on fuel, but not much worse than the station wagon. When you have a family our size, there just really aren't vehicles that do get good fuel mileage.
The family that is giving it to us in two weeks (they have to get their new vehicle first) outgrew it. They've got ten kids and have been double belting in the back. It almost feels like overkill for a family with only six kids, but it will be nice having a little extra room to spread out.
Sometime with everything being so tight all the time it gets frustrating, and I sometimes feel like God's not blessing us. Then He does something like this for us, and I am so thankful for those little (and big!) reminders that He's still there, He still cares. He's still faithful to provide for our every need! Praise the Lord!
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 6/12/2007 10:34:26 AM
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Yesterday my husband's grandmother passed away. She was 95 years old. She's been in the nursing home for a few months now in failing health, and she's been in pain for the last few days so we are glad she's in Heaven now where there is no more pain.
She was such a neat lady. I always enjoyed talking to her. She's been physically in poor health for as long as I've known her and couldn't get around much. She lived on her own in a trailer on her daughter's property until she went into the nursing home earlier this year. If there was a storm and she was afraid to be alone, her son in law would come and get her in the golf cart and take her to their house. She was very fragile--if she fell she was not able to get up again on her own, and the smallest bump would leave horrible bruises.
Yet, in spite of all that, her mind was in perfect shape. She had the most amazing memory of anyone I knew. She remembered WWI and would tell us stories about the things that happened when she was a little girl. She always sent everyone cards on their birthday, and she had a lot of relatives.
I'm going to miss her. I'm not sure when the funeral is yet, but Erick's grandmother asked him if he'd be willing to do the funeral. This would be his first one, so it will be difficult for more than one reason.
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 6/15/2007 5:27:41 PM
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Today was the funeral. As we were getting ready to leave this morning, the phone rang. It was the lady from the 4-H extension office telling us we had baby chicks there! I had totally forgotten what with the funeral and all that we were supposed to have picked up the chicks yesterday. We got ten fluffy yellow chicks that will be fast growers for meat use. They are supposed to be ready to butcher out in about six weeks. This is for the broiler exhibit for Jay's poultry project. I'm not sure where we're going to put them, but for now they will start out on the dryer like the last bunch of chicks.
Anyway, I explained that I had forgotten because my husband's great-grandmother had died, and we went to the funeral. It was a nice funeral. No one was mad at Erick for not doing the funeral, but his grandmother did ask him to share some memories of Grandma with the group, and so he prepared that and did a super job! I was so proud of him. His delivery has smoothed out so much since the last time I heard him speak in public. (The last time he preached I didn't hear him because he preached to the youth and I went to Bible Study with the adults.) He only made one little error--he mentioned WWII when I know he meant to say WWI, but that's okay.  I also at the time thought he got his great-grandmother's children mixed up, but I was wrong. Silly me--thinking I knew who is who in that family of his! She had three children, 9 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great grandchildren, and I think almost all of them were there.
It was a really sweet funeral. The funeral dinner was a bit crowded, and I think about fifty percent of my kids spilled something, but overall it was still nice.
Erick went to get the chicks after we got home from it all. I'm not sure if I'm giong to even bother making supper. We ate such a late and big lunch. I may just serve leftover coffee cake from breakfast and maybe make some popcorn. Erick and Jay won't be here--they went to a Royal Ranger campout and will be doing the Pinewood Derby tomorrow. What a full day for Erick! Whew!
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 6/25/2007 10:39:46 AM
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Yesterday at church we had agreed to help out in Jr. Kids church at 11:00, because the couple that were teaching it needed to leave early. We knew we were going to have to leave the service early, so we kept an eye on the time. The pastor was teaching out of Romans 1:26 and 27., "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchaged natural relations for natural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
After reading this, he said that he believed that we were coming to a day in our country where preaching what the Bible says on that topic would be a hate crime, and that many people already believed that you are bigoted and intolerant if you believe what the Bible says in that passage.
About that time we looked at our watch and realized it was time to leave, so we slipped out. What a time to walk out during the sermon! I was sure everyone would be wondering if we were walking out because we were protesting the sermon. I mentioned to the pastor after the service why we had left, and told him I hated to walk out on the sermon at that point. He laughed and said, "Yeah, I was going to ask Erick what his views were on that subject." I think he was joking, at least I hope he didn't really think that we were walking out because we disagreed with him!
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Later that evening we went and got our "new" van. It's so nice! I drove the station wagon home and Erick drove the van. We had about an eighth of a tank of gas when we left from church (evening service) to get the van and drove about a half hour there and about another half hour home. I wasn't sure we were going to have enough gas to do all that, but we didn't want to have to put more in if we didn't have to. Amazingly, the needle stayed at an eighth of a tank through the entire trip! I felt like the widow who had the jar of oil that didn't run out. Either that needle was stuck, or God caused us to not use any gas on that trip. He's so good to us!
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 6/27/2007 8:25:55 AM
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Yesterday the pastor's newly adopted children came over for a visit. They've got a girl babysitting for them this week because the pastor's wife is trying to clean out all the closets and organize everything, and the kids tend to undo things faster than she can do them. So they've hired her to help keep the kids occupied so she can actually accomplish some things. She brought them all out to my house for a couple of hours, and they had fun chasing the chickens around. One girl especially loved the baby chicks and wanted to take one home so bad. When she left, she had to kiss them all goodbye. 
We took a walk around town, stopped by to visit another church member, (there are five families in our small town that attend our church) and stopped down at my mom and dad's to play on their swingset. The kids had a lot of fun and the children didn't get into any trouble or fight or have any major rebellious moments, so it was an enjoyable experience for everyone.
After they left, I kept hearing this beeping sound. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. It wasn't steady--sometimes the beeps would be close together and sometimes further apart. Sometimes they would stop and then start. I finally figured out it was coming from the basement. It sounded like an alarm of some kind. I wondered if there was a radon gas detector or something that I didn't know about down there, and I called my dad to come down and help see what it was.
He came down and looked and listened. It sounded to me like it was coming from the ceiling, but the sound was echoing off the basement walls and could have been coming from anywhere. He leaned over the piled of boxes of Erick's tools to check out the well pump, and the sound became more muffled. He said he thought it was coming from the boxes. I looked through--and there was a smoke alarm. Sure enough, it started beeping, and that was the sound we were looking for. It was beeping because the batteries were low.  I was glad it was only that, but I did feel a bit silly having to have my dad come over to find a smoke alarm with low batteries. 
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/2/2007 8:27:48 AM
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I won't be going to the funeral. My mom was barely able to find a seat--Alaska is a pretty popular destination this time of year. She finally was able to get a bereavement seat for about $600, and her grandfather paid for it because he isn't able to go. He's in a nursing home in California with Alzeheimer's and would love to go to his daughter's funeral but can't. So he feels at least he can send my mom. I'm not sure will be there, or even if my mom's brother and sister will be able to make it. It may be a very small service.
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/5/2007 9:35:51 AM
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We had a pretty good Fourth of July yesterday, but it could have been better. Erick had the day off, but they asked him if he could work anyway and he decided to take it. So our paycheck should be pretty good this week--he'll get overtime and holiday pay. Then after work he picked up materials for a job he's doing (enclosing a porch) so he didn't get back until 7:00pm. By that time I had been close to just trying to broil the hamburgers because I don't know how to use the grill.
Then we went to watch the fireworks. There are three towns that do fireworks here, all about twenty minutes away, so we had options. He wanted to go to one town because it's easier to get out of afterwards (he hates getting stuck in after-firework traffic!) and I wanted to go to another because I knew my dad was going there. I won the argument, and so we headed there, but we never saw my dad the whole time anyway. Plus the wind was coming toward us from where they were setting off the fireworks, so not only did we get the full force of the smoke, but debris kept falling on us the entire time. Some of the embers were still glowing. I was starting to get worried that I was going to get by one--I did get hid on the forehead by a chunk of something, but thankfully it wasn't hot.
At one point a huge spray of glowing embers fell right next to Timothy. Jay stamped it out before the grass caught on fire. About that time I had two children saying they needed to use the bathroom and another saying she needed a drink of water, plus a storm was building and we were starting to see flashes of lightning. The fireworks were not over, but I suggested we leave early. We left just in time--it started raining just as we arrived home. It would have been no fun being stuck in traffic during a storm with kids who needed to go to the bathroom.
I still can't get over how many falling embers there were last night. I've never seen that much stuff fall out of the sky. It was nuts.
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/8/2007 12:47:00 PM
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We had a strange thing happen at church today. Right in the middle of the sermon, a man came through the door from off the street wearing nothing but a pair of shorts, came down the aisle, and lay down at the altar. I didn't know what to think. It was so odd--the last place you expect to see a bare chested man is at church! The pastor quietly asked two of the staff pastors to deal with him, and they went over and talked to him for a bit and then they all left together. That was the last we saw of him, but when we left we knew he was in the office with one of the pastors still, so I know he was being counseled and ministered to.
Talk about a distraction, though! Trying to pay attention to the sermon after that was nearly impossible. I know the pastor probably felt like everyone wasn't really listening, that he'd lost them all completely. We're all sitting there wondering who is he, where he came from, why he did what he did, and what's going on now. Eventually I was able to pay attention to the sermon again, but that that was the most unusual thing I've seen yet in church. That even beat the lady having the epileptic seizure during worship time!
I think that would make a good thread--strange things that happen during church. If I remember, I'll have to start one sometime.
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/12/2007 4:31:19 PM
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Today was the official beginning of 4-H week. The fair doesn't actually begin until Sunday, but most of the projects will be judged today, tomorrow, or Saturday. There are only a few exceptions. For example, sewing was judged last Friday--a week earlier than all the other projects. Joy was in that project, so we spent most of the day at that judging event. She was the only one in her division, and she got a blue ribbon, so she will most likely get a champion. You can never know for sure until you actually see the purple ribbon, but it does seem pretty likely.
We had two projects being judged today--Joy had her knitting, and Jay had his model. This was the third time Jay had done his model, because they just were not turning out well. This last one Erick helped him with (the first two he done completely on his own) and supervised, plus he didn't paint it. It's not required in his division to paint, so we just left it that base gray color they come in. He did it just in the last couple of days, and it looked a lot nicer. On the way to the fair, I had told him to hold onto it, but he set it up on the cupholder and decided to read a book instead. The first corner we took, the car fell off the cupholder and two of the wheels broke off. I turned the van around and we went home and got the model glue, and we drove the rest of the way with Jay holding the wheels on trying to get the glue to dry.
Joy's knitting was judged first. There were two in her division. The other was a small counted cross-stitch piece. Joy did much better talking to the judge this time around (she was very shy with the sewing judge) and the judge liked her scarf. She took Champion in her division. Jay had a lot more competition--models is a very popular project. We weren't sure how he would do, but he ended up with a Reserve Champion. We are so proud of our kids!
Tomorrow is Foods judging. Joy is the only one being judged tomorrow, and she'll be competing against her aunt in her division.
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/14/2007 11:55:14 AM
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Well, Joy didn't get a champion on her skirt after all. I don't know why--she was the only one, and the judge liked her skirt. Maybe she thought it was good enough for a blue ribbon but not good enough for a champion? I thought she did a really nice job. She worked very hard on it. Or maybe the judge thought there wasn't a point in awarding a champion since there was only one girl in that division? I don't know. Some judges are hard to figure out.
Joy got a blue ribbon on her cookies yesterday. There was a lot of competition, and the judge did consider them for champion, but she did have several things to critique about the cookies. The judge showed Joy the bottom of two of the cookies to show that one was slightly darker than the other. Also, the edges of some of the cookies at the edge of the plate had warped slightly, to conform to the curve of the plate. She said they could have been baked about 30 seconds longer, too.
My little sister got a reserve champion, though. My brothers and sisters have all done well so far. One of my sisters got a grand champion in fine arts--she painted a picture of Sarah. It's so pretty!
Today was woodworking judging. The judge was very detailed and took a long time with each child. Jay got a blue ribbon, but just barely. He had a lot to critique about his bookends. One was taller than the other, it only had one coat of finish (that's because he did it last night) and the edges didn't butt up against each other quite right and there were some gaps.
It was also Sarah's mini-4-H judging day. She doesn't compete in mini 4-H, but the judge still looked at her projects. She had a pillow, a first aid kit, and a plate of Rice Krispie treats she showed today.
Erick is going to have some competing to do, as well! Wal-Mart picked him to represent their store in some kind of auto-tech rodeo competion event. I don't know much about it, but it's next week, and it's up north somewhere. He'll get paid for it. They picked him because the fastest tech they have. He can do an oil change in ten minutes. I'm so proud of him!
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/16/2007 11:46:17 AM
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Last night was the Fashion Revue, and Joy got a Champion. I didn't realize that they gave champions for each grade level in Fashion Revue. I was under the impression they only gave Jr. and Sr. Champions. So it was kind of ironic that I expected her to get one for construction and she didn't and didn't expect her to get one in Fashion Revue and she did. Although I don't know--she may have got a champion on her skirt after all. There's a purple ribbon hanging on it, now that they've put them all up for display. Maybe they did it by accident, thinking that since she was the only one in the division she would have been the champion? Who knows. I could probably just ask, but every time I see the extension agent she's dashing off somewhere in a hurry to do something and I never get to talk to her, so if they give another purple ribbon I'm fine with that.
Jay showed his poultry today. It was another long day. They started off with showmanship, and his chicken got away. That's not a good way to start off showmanship. He didn't win that. He did get two trophies, though--Champion pullets and Champion standard female. He had the only birds in those two classes, so it was an easy win, but again, just because you are the only one doesn't guarantee you a champion. He's very happy to get his first champion.
I've got a couple of pictures to share--Joy's champion knitted scarf, and Jay's reserve champion model.
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/19/2007 8:36:55 AM
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Erick is in Kalamazoo, MI today. I didn't know he was going to be that far away! I thought the Tire and Lube Rodeo was only going to be in Muncie, so when he called last night and told me where he was it surprised me. He thought he wasn't going to get to go for awhile, because they waited until the day before to tell him when it was (and never told him where until after he left!) and also because they had a couple of techs that quit and they were going to be shorthanded. He had told them he didn't have to go the event, he would be happy to stay and work, but they told him he needed to go anyway because they had already put him on a team.
Right before he left yesterday morning, I woke up the kids so they could kiss him goodbye, and Tim felt hot. I had had a full day planned--two trips to the fair (one for Jay to feed the animals and for me to enter my cookies in the Bake-O-Rama, and one for the awards ceremony and maybe ride some rides) plus I needed to go shopping. With Tim sick, though, I didn't go anywhere. My parents took the kids with them to both events, so they got to go after all (but they didnt' ride any rides) and I stayed home with Tim. Thankfully we had some ground venison in the freezer still and some potatoes, celery, carrots, and onions, so I was able to cook even if I didn't get to go shopping. Tim's better today, so I'll go shopping today.
I thought it was kind of funny about the planning of the whole Tire and Lube Rodeo, thing. You can certainly tell that men were in charge of the planning! If a woman had planned it, Erick would have received a packet at least a week in advance with maps, an itinerary, a packing list, a list of all the closest restaraunts, and probably more. He'd have so many details of what was going on that he probably wouldn't even have the time or energy to read through it all and he's miss half of them. Some of the details might conflict or otherwise be in error, but he's have details! When a man plans it, all he got is, "Be at the store at 9:00 tomorrow. Bring a uniform and an extra change of clothes. He didn't even know what city or state it was going to be in, and didn't think to ask!
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/20/2007 8:05:45 AM
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Well, Erick didn't win. Of course, seeing how disorganized his team was (not even knowing what city it was in!) and not even meeting his teammates until the morning of the competition, they certainly were at a disadvantage. The team that won had been preparing for the rodeo for months, and they worked together regularly at the store where the competition was held. That's another disadvantage Erick's team had--the bay they used was set up opposite from the bay they were used to working in. So they didn't really have much of a chance, but they had a lot of fun and brought hom a lot of free stuff. It would have been nice if they would have won, though--the winning team got $200 each. Oh well.
While he was gone, the girls set up an iced tea stand and sold it by the highway. They made their own iced tea from mint leaves in the front yard. They actually had a few customers and made $8 altogether. They were really thrilled.
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/27/2007 8:13:51 AM
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Life has been fairly uninteresting lately, but it's been a nice change of pace to not be terribly busy. Since 4-H is over, and we're not starting school until the last week of August, I really don't have much to do. I've been getting some of the deeper areas of the house organized, keeping things clean, and even having extra time to do things like read a book, or jump on the trampoline, or play John Deere American Farmer. A couple of days ago I even went with Erick to help him paint on a job. It was in the same small town as his parents, so the kids played down there all day.
All I have on the calendar until school starts are birthdays, weddings, graduations parties, and baby showers. I'm still working on the big quilt I'm handquilting. I think I'm probably going to donate that one, though. It's too nice to just sell.
Speaking of quilts, I still haven't sold anything from my craft booth, so I put in my notice that August is going to be my last month and then I'll be bringing things home. I don't know at this point what I'm going to do with my stuff. I've been considering starting a website. I don't know if I'd sell anything from there, either, but at least it wouldn't cost so much per month. Or I could put it on Ebay or find somewhere else locally to sell them. I'm still praying about that.
I'm not sure how much time I'll have for quilting anyway when school starts up again. Joy's going to be needing help on her math. Her reading has improved a lot, but to understand the directions in her 4th grade math book and do it on her own like Jay did--well, she's not quite ready for that. I'm going to have to read it with her. I'll probably have her read it to me and make sure she understands each concept as she goes. That's going to be time consuming, plus I have another one to teach to read this year--Abby. Last year I got off pretty easy--there wasn't really very much they needed help with and I didn't need to teach anyone to read. I had to work with Joy on her reading, but I didn't have to begin the process with anyone and that's always a time-consuming task.
Not only that, but we've been asked to be the Jr. Kids Church directors at church. We've been praying about it and I'm pretty sure we're going to accept that. Erick will have to quit being an usher and we'll have to quit helping out in big Kids Church once a month, though. We'll be in charge of recruiting and training new teachers since there is only one couple besides us that hasn't quit yet. We've got some changes in mind we'd like to make. We'll only be a short term solution, though, because at the end of the year Erick would like to look for a position that actually pays at a church somewhere.
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 7/31/2007 9:15:30 AM
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As of last night, I have a new sister-in-law. My little brother got married yesterday evening. It was a nice, simple wedding. They had only two attendants each, no flower girls or ring bearer, they had minimal decorations, and a cupcake tier instead of a wedding cake. They skipped all the silly little customs like stuffing cake in each other's mouth--the only one they did was she did throw her bouquet. My littlest sister (age eight) caught it. My other sisters thought that was terribly unfair--they don't want to have to wait until she grows up and gets married before they can get married if she's next in line.
The wedding colors were pink and black. It was also a potluck wedding. I brought vegetable pizza. My grandpa was there--I hadn't seen him since my sister's wedding four years ago. I wish he came up more often. He's the only grandparent I have left (except for my great-grandpa, and he's not going to last much longer.)
My dad married them, and he did a really nice job. We were all taking bets on how long he'd be able to hold off crying.  He only cried at the very end, so we were all really proud of him.
The only disappointment I had was that the batteries in my camera died. It hadn't showed a low battery the last time I had used it, so I didn't think to grab the pair from the charger. It died after two pictures. I got one of my brother up there with his groomsmen, and I got a picture of the maid of honor coming up the aisle, and that was it. I didn't even get a picture of the bride.  She looked really pretty, though, wearing a white dress with pink flowers. She managed to not look taller than my brother, too!
It was a nice wedding, and it will be nice having her as part of the family.
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RE: My life--Consecrated to God (Lisa's first blog) - 8/2/2007 11:16:22 AM
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Yesterday was Sarah's eighth birthday. We took her to Spring Mill State Park for a day. We had been wanting to have a nice day trip for awhile, and it was a perfect opportunity. We also took along my littlest sister and also one of Erick's adult sisters to help out with the kids.
We hiked to one of the caves, visited the pioneer villiage, went to the nature center, and went swimming in the pool. It's such a nice park and it has so much to do. The kids loved the pool--it was the first time we took all of them to a pool at once. That's why we took along Erick's sister. It wasn't nearly as scary as I had imagined, either! The older ones can't swim well, but well enough to have fun. The littler ones played in the kiddie pool. It was a blast.
On the way home we stopped at Wal-Mart and Sarah got to pick out a new bike! Her old one was too small for her and she's been wanting a new one for quite some time. We also went to Dairy Queen and got ice cream for everyone.
When we got home, I was climbing up on top of the van to get down the bike when I happened to look over and see that our dog was inside the chicken pen! I yelled, "Pippen's eating the chickens!" and Erick and the kids rushed over to the rescue. Actually, he hadn't eaten them at all. He hadn't even hurt them. He'd scared them badly, though--he had them in a corner if they moved he'd chase them back. They were dirty and scared, but they were okay. Poor little things!
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Cute things my kids said! - 8/4/2007 10:17:50 AM
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