Courageous Joy

Sunday Recap

After our leisurely start to the day we decided to buy a few things we needed. It turns out that one store would have it all….we bought milk, an owl to keep birds out of the back yard, a light for Josiah’s bike and a bike computer for my bike.

While we ran those errands Josiah made ice cream.

Then we headed for lunch at “la Ci-Ci’s” This is a pizza buffet. Pizza continues to be the bane to this new lifestyle I try so hard to create.

We set out to find ducks and didn’t. Hmmmm….we couldn’t find the bats and now we couldn’t find the ducks…is this a trend?

We got a load of rocks for a landscaping project that Mike has been hatching. He’s had me checking out how I’d like it to look. He’s going to build a fountain/pond in the front yard. Of course we all immediately had our ideas….the boys envisioning a fishing pond, my envisioning lots of water lily’s and such… We adjusted our expectations to Mike’s vision and I think we are set. Now to find the time to make it happen.

We went to church. We are enjoying this contemporary service….it’s more like a Gen X or whatever this generation of 18 – 22 yos are called service. There were two families there last night (us and another) but other than that it is students. It’s a fun service. I love the worship and the children do too. We’ll be doing this through the summer. This gives time for our new chaplain to arrive and for Mike to figure out assignments for next year. Frankly, Mike will be the only chaplain here for most of July so we’ll be doing both services. I’m not sure what will happen in the fall.

We dropped off some TOG and 3 weeks of books to Adrienne and family as they begin a new school year – I guess.

AND late at night I got an email from my SIL (Heather – not to be confused with produce, recipe provider, local Heather) that told us how well they think the girls are doing. The girls were down in Eugene for Memorial Day weekend. THEN I got a phone call from Julie, a friend from AK. She and her family stopped and saw the girls in Spokane and took them out for dinner. She also had things parent dreams of hearing to say about the girls. It appears that they are blossoming and doing well. She mentioned confidence and love for God.

We did hear over the weekend that both girls are accepted to the second year of Master’s Commission. They graduate from year 1 on 6 August.