One more Funeral

I feel like one of the only times I write is when we have another funeral. Our poor little church has seen so many of it's older members go home this year. This is the 7th death that we've had and the 5th funeral I am going to be helping with. Fred's wife died back in July and was buried on their 49th wedding anniversary. Fred was diagnosed with a brain tumor shortly after that. He fought long enough to finish his last book. He wrote a book about his and his wife's life and their faith and how God brings things around full circle. Once he had that done his body just gave up. He was a sweet many who just turned 72 this year. He will be missed by so many.

In looking back and wondering home we could have so much death this past year I was reminded by how many we still have with us. My boss and our church pastor, Dave, was diagnosed with Lymphoma back in June. He has now been told he's in remission. We had a couple of other different cancer scares this year. So I am looking at this in both ways as to those who are still with us and those who are not. God is doing a mighty thing through all this with our church. He has brought us all together to rally around those who have suffered loss and to support those in bad health. Old and young have come together to help each other and that is what makes this such a special place. God's amazing love shows through so many of the people here that you just can't help but to want to be a part of it all.

The Most Wonderful Time of the year!

Just to update those who read my blog earlier, Trace's surgery went extremly well. It last only 5 hours and everything looks great. Thanks for your prayers.

Well this week I started leaving Sophia home with her daddy while I come to work. I loved having her here with me but she needs more attention now. She wants to play and be talked to and move around and it's hard for me to do that with her while I'm supposed to be working. It's been really hard on me because I have loved having her company. It's hard to believe she'll be 6 months on the 28th already.

Abbie has her first school Christmas program tomorrow morning. She is really excited about it. She's been practicing all the songs they are going to sing. She loves her preschool but we are still thinking about home schooling her next year. I don't want to send her to the elemetarty school that she would go to. The building is so old. It's 3 floors and the top floor only has one set of stairs to get up or down. Hello! Fire Safety! Yeah that falls under a grandfather clause and they don't have to have an extra exit. We have a great Christian school that several of our friends send their kids to but the cost is just too high for us. I know we need to decide soon. If we do home school her Justin would be the one to teach her. He's much more patient than I am.

The wonderful Ohio weather stricks again. We have rain right now which should turn to freezing rain and then to snow by mid afternoon. I'm going to have a fun drive home from work today. At least we just put new tires on Justin car.

I had to have 3 teeth pulled on Monday. Two of them were ones that I had root canals done on while we lived in Vegas. Why didn't I just have them pulled then. I have one thing to say, Our dental insurance is a lot better here than in Vegas and the doctors charges are a lot better too. I really like the dentist we choose and his office is right up the street so it all works out great.

Well I've just babbled on today. I had to do a personal review of my abilities and so forth for my job here at church. The board is going to look it over at their meeting on Sunday. It's weird trying to review myself. Well I better finish this and get to work.

 

Prayer Request

I would like to ask everyone to pray for a little 7 year old boy who comes to my church. His name is Trace and he is having surgery today to put in two growth rods along his spine. Trace has Spinabifida(spelling) which is the curving of the spine. The mortality rate of his surgery is 50/50 but without it he could die within the next 6 months. The way his spine is curving it is cutting off all of his vital organs. Trace is a very sweet little boy. His surgery with last 12 hours and started at 6:00a.m. eastern time. Thank you all for your prayers.

Baby It's Cold Outside

Well our high today is 32 degrees, but I have to say the weather has surely helped to put me in the spirit of things. There's a light dusting of snow outside but there's ice on all the road signs and trees. It looks very calm and peaceful. I love being at work in the mornings before anyone else comes in and I can just soak up the quiet and peacefulness of the church. The ladies came and decorated over the weekend and they did a great job making things look festive yet classy and simple. The sanctuary feels so warm compared to outside. I'm feeling a little sentimental and stuff today. Last night we had a moms meeting for moms with young kids. It's our version of MOPS, anyway we were talking about traditions that we can start with our kids and we had a mom come in who has 4 kids ages 26 to 10 and she talked about the different things that she started when her oldest was little and that she still does with her youngest. My point here is that the traditions that I most remember and now miss are the ones we did with our friends in Vegas. Our Thanksgiving traditions and our Christmas traditions and those are what I crave at this time of year. I miss going out to cut down a tree. Now we use our fake one we had before we moved to Vegas. I miss watching Christmas Vacation on Thanksgiving and sitting around a crowded housefull of our friends. I want to start new traditions with our kids especially now since Abbie and Kaleb are old enough to remember them and want to keep doing them so when Sophia is old enough she'll want to be apart of them too. I do have to say that I enjoying baking with the cold weather. It makes the house feel all cozy and warm while I bake and look outside and it's cold and snowy. Wow! When did I can to be so sappy?