This and That
It was strange to be in chapel without Mike today.
We did begin our Religious Education program today. We break for the summer. We have a wonderful new volunteer who I think is going to do an awesome job. This was a paid position until our funding was cut thanks to well….”budget cuts” and decisions to disallow chapel programs to use appropriated funds any longer. This is a HUGE job and I’m very thankful that we have Debbie who stepped up to the plate. The youth will take the responsibility to put on a little puppet show each Sunday. Today was hilarious when Debbie’s daughter leaned on the “screen” and it fell over….revealing Steve and Debbie H’s son Steven….. Oh a Zanderism….we pulled up to chapel and he said, “I don’t want to go to church. Those people are always in my business.” Goodness….what business and what an attitude…I know how to pray.
We went out to lunch with Steve and Debbie H and their boys after Sunday school.
I made ice cream for tonight. I spent time in I John. Jamin made caramel popcorn for the girls to take on their upcoming trip.
We went back to church again for the contemporary service at 6:00. Bre sang a solo tonight - unexpectedly. It always blesses me to hear her sing. She has a HEART for worship. I can’t help but remember the first time she stepped out to sing in public. It was a chapel play and another chaplain’s daughter took great joy in getting all the other girls to laugh at Bre every time she sang. I wanted her to quit – OK first I wanted to teach the supervisor’s daughter a thing or two. LOL The director and RE coordinator both told me that Bre had a “sweet” voice. She opted to persevere and preformed in the play/cantata. She did well. At our next assignment she asked to take voice lessons along with piano. She didn’t let the ridicule of others stop her from expressing her heart of worship and now is used of God to usher others into his presence by her wholehearted worship…and now the whole human video thing is added to it. I’m amazed that my “shy” gal is so unreserved in her worship – but that’s how God is – it really isn’t about our strengths after all is it? I wonder what God would have done with Moses if he’d not leaned on Aaron???? Anyway – it awed me to see her sing “Shout to the Lord” and watch her peers (as we are in the student service) begin to rise to their feet in worship – in a military chapel. We are having the time of our life in this service. God is good and on the move….I think He always is…but we don’t always get to SEE so clearly what is going on. LOL
I spent another 2 hours in I John. Yep, gearing up to begin teaching I John at Protestant Women of the Chapel – I think it’s going to be a good book... That we may “know we have eternal life”….I pray it will give confidence where needed and conviction also where needed…honestly this small book of the Bible never fails to do just that. LOL I have to remind myself that this week is only an overview…we’ll be going section by section in the weeks to come and I don’t have to “get it all out there” Tuesday night. I’m blessed that though our ladies don’t want to do long inductive studies they DO want to be in the Word. We are using the Nav Press Lifechange Guides…and I’m doing more study to sort of “shore it up” in places.
That’s our day.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Saturday, September 16, 2006
This and That
We spent the day simply being family.
Today is “Play Station” day in our home. I’m going to have to rethink this idea. We put the TV and the Play Station in storage when we moved here. We pull out a projector and screen that Mike made, once a week for a movie….Recently we thought we could add Play Station back in once a week. It seemed to me that Saturday would be a good Play Station day, as the screen is often out Friday night for a movie. All week the younger boys asked for Play Station and I said, “Saturday is Play Station day”. I even put it on the calendar. You guessed it – they wanted to do nothing else all day. This won’t fly. I’m thinking I may have them earn 30 minutes of play time with say 50 tickets. That would probably be about 30 minutes two or three times a week. I don’t know.
Arielle, Nolan and Zander played a lot of PS games today. Cy worked. Bre wanted to hang out at home. Jamin and Jared got stir crazy and so they, Krista and I went in search of a bike carrier. Krista would like to take her bike with her to WA this year. We found one.
We weren’t ready to come home so we wandered to the mall. The boys went one way and Krista and I had a chance to talk alone and shop. We found some gifts for their host parents for the upcoming year. We returned some shoes that Stacia doesn’t want to wear. {G} We waved at Cy while he worked. We TRIED (for the 2nd time) to buy a battery for our cordless phone. It seems that this is as hard as finding a PDA battery. We bought a Chick Fil A shake and wandered down to Taco Bell and ate. :::snort:::
When we got home BreAnne and Arielle had set up a tea party. We haven’t had a real tea party since we moved from Alaska. It was great. We enjoyed visiting and connecting and talking about the upcoming year and such.
Then it was time for baths. The girls had asked for *First Daughter* from Netflix. We watched that. We enjoy this one best of all the “president daughter type” movies. Josiah was glad to have missed it. Jamin said that he doesn’t want to watch any more of those “one thought, emotional movies”. Zander sat down and said, “Ok, when this one freezes, then we’ll watch Spy Kids 1, and when it freezes we’ll watch play station”. ::::snort::: Can you tell our DVD player freezes quite a bit? It never froze – poor kid.
Now it’s time for bed.
We spent the day simply being family.
Today is “Play Station” day in our home. I’m going to have to rethink this idea. We put the TV and the Play Station in storage when we moved here. We pull out a projector and screen that Mike made, once a week for a movie….Recently we thought we could add Play Station back in once a week. It seemed to me that Saturday would be a good Play Station day, as the screen is often out Friday night for a movie. All week the younger boys asked for Play Station and I said, “Saturday is Play Station day”. I even put it on the calendar. You guessed it – they wanted to do nothing else all day. This won’t fly. I’m thinking I may have them earn 30 minutes of play time with say 50 tickets. That would probably be about 30 minutes two or three times a week. I don’t know.
Arielle, Nolan and Zander played a lot of PS games today. Cy worked. Bre wanted to hang out at home. Jamin and Jared got stir crazy and so they, Krista and I went in search of a bike carrier. Krista would like to take her bike with her to WA this year. We found one.
We weren’t ready to come home so we wandered to the mall. The boys went one way and Krista and I had a chance to talk alone and shop. We found some gifts for their host parents for the upcoming year. We returned some shoes that Stacia doesn’t want to wear. {G} We waved at Cy while he worked. We TRIED (for the 2nd time) to buy a battery for our cordless phone. It seems that this is as hard as finding a PDA battery. We bought a Chick Fil A shake and wandered down to Taco Bell and ate. :::snort:::
When we got home BreAnne and Arielle had set up a tea party. We haven’t had a real tea party since we moved from Alaska. It was great. We enjoyed visiting and connecting and talking about the upcoming year and such.
Then it was time for baths. The girls had asked for *First Daughter* from Netflix. We watched that. We enjoy this one best of all the “president daughter type” movies. Josiah was glad to have missed it. Jamin said that he doesn’t want to watch any more of those “one thought, emotional movies”. Zander sat down and said, “Ok, when this one freezes, then we’ll watch Spy Kids 1, and when it freezes we’ll watch play station”. ::::snort::: Can you tell our DVD player freezes quite a bit? It never froze – poor kid.
Now it’s time for bed.
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