Some of you are actually old enough to remember the old movie "Love Story" and the title of this blog will have you singing an old tune in your head. For the rest of you, take it at face value--when you wait this long to blog it is difficult to know where to start. Let me just say, I love reading everone's blogs, so sorry I haven't kept up, will try to do better. Let me just hit the highlights and will go from there.
August
The kids started school--Ryan is repeating first grade at the local elementary school where he started last year. He now has a GREAT teacher and he is loving it! Most of it is review at this point so his confidence is way up. Rachel is having a much easier beginning as she knows many people. She is taking some really tough classes though. For her AP US HIstory she has a teacher who insists on getting these kids, mostly JR.s, ready for college. Pray for her as she is struggling in this one. Also Advanced Trig is giving her fits, but AP Psych, Amer Lit, Spanish III, and chorus are great. Also she is dancing 2 nights a week, co-leading a 6th grade small group at church, playing her guitar and leading worship at her high school FCA meetings a couple of times a month. We also kept Anita and Phillip's girls for 10 days, ages 1 and 3, while they went to Kenya. Actually it was not too bad, they are precious, exhausting, but precious, and grandmommie Billie stayed with us and helped alot.
September
Ryan started soccer again, thanks uncle Phillip for coaching again, and he is a Wolf cub. He also turned 8 this month, and the big event was having his tonsils and adenoids removed and his tongue clipped. He was a real trooper for the surgery and his recovery is going remarkably well--thanks to so many of you who are faithfully praying for him. Rachel's social calendar keeps us hopping and she is getting very good on her guitar. Edgar, Rachel, and I attended the live recording of Northpoint's newest worship album--it was an incredible night. We are loving our church and the awesome worship and teaching we experience each week. I am still an coach on Upstreet, our children's program, and have moved with my 4th graders and our team up to 5th grade. God is doing amazing things at our church that is less than a year old. We have incredible environments designed for 350 kids. Last school year we averaged over 600 and this year we are averaging over 780, with our high attendance being 805! What an amazing thing to see our volunteers ministereing to these kids and them engaging so well.
October is here and Edgar and I will celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary on the 4th. We are also looking forward to getting to enjoy a few days with the Bishop's at the family reunion later on this month. Also, my sister is coming up for a few days and she and I are planning a girls only overnight to the mountians.--that's it so far, you are pretty caught up and I WILL try to do better.
If any of you are still reading, let me end this by sharing a little story from surgery day. Ryan loves his little plastic animals--he has hundreds and he catagorizes them, lines them up by two's to board his ark, and carries one or two of them everywhere. The night before his surgery we talked about the fact that he keeps them in the palm of his hand because they are so precious to him. I told him that the Bible tells us that God holds us in the palm of his hand, which is the most tender and sensitive part of our hand. As he was going into the operating room, holding a little jaguar, I told him that he would fall asleep and his hand would open and I would keep the jaguar for him, but God never sleeps and he would keep Ryan in the palm of his hand all through the surgery. When he woke up it took a little while for him to become coherent. When he spoke, he saw his jaguar on the bed rail where I had placed it and he looked up and said, "Mommie, Jesus kept me in the palm of his hand". May we all remember that as we go through our days--we are precious to God and He keeps us in the palm of His hand.
Blessings,
Christine
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