Crayons, Playdoh & Wax

Today, K’s class got to finally do their mission. My dd’s teacher is involved in the teacher in space program. So, in conjunction with the Challenger Learning center (at a local middle school) they were in the year 2080 and saving a lost ship. They were wired to the learning center, pretending they were earth, and then proceeded to save some astronauts. K was on the transmission team. They finally put the article up on the news website.

Hopefully they will be in the paper tomorrow too K has been waiting so long for this!!! They have been planning all year!!

The Walk was amazing! I so enjoyed being able to sit back and watch my pilgrim in through the weekend! The hardest part for me was, (and people who know me will understand) sitting there, not doing or saying and just observing. Yah, I did well with that one, NOT! I didn’t realize how hard of a time I would have with that one. I actually got called on the carpet Friday night because I was being to nit-picky and everyone felt like I was looking for faults. That is not the case at all… but I did realize how horrible detail oriented I am!!! You would never know it by looking at my house… but apparently I am!!!

I found it interesting that I had someone I barely spoke to all weekend inform me that I am seeking attention to fill a void. Yah, I seek attention? I just kept turning to a friend of mine who use to be in my reunion group. It was nice at least 1 of the people this weekend knows me well!!!

In the mean time, my mom left me a message Saturday morning. My Aunt Edna died. Aunt Edna was the last of my grandma’s siblings. She was like a 2nd Mom to my mom. Grandma was #13 in their family, Aunt Edna was #12. I remember as a kid going to her house with my cousins and we would go pick these little round watermelons and eat them until we got sick to our stomachs. Granted, half the time it was because they weren’t quite ripe yet, but still!! Mom is now in Michigan. I was trying to figure out how to go, but I have F for this one last week, and not sure her mom would let me get away with just taking her with me ::giggle::

Anyway, keep mom and the rest of the family in your prayers. The funeral is Thursday.

I am going to get gas and snacks and starbucks before heading out to get my pilgrim and head up to the retreat center. Have a great weekend and pray that God is glorified in many wonderful ways this weekend!!!

DeColores!!!

Yah, I keep having hearing tests… the ENT thinks that it is fluid on my ears. Ok, maybe it is, but sad that I could only hear the first 3 ringtones!! But it seems to work… cuz I really do have high frequency hearing loss!!

So we are coming out of work and F says to me, that’s not how to get to gandma’s house. I said, oh, do you want to go to gandma’s house… realizing she would be asleep in about 30 seconds anyway… and it was almost time for J to get home from work. So we head for Belinda’s house. (and of course I was right, she was asleep before I turned the corner).

I bring F in the house put her in bed and then hollar for Belinda’s son Don, who is home. A few minutes later he comes up the stairs to tell me he just got word that his grandpa died today. Of course my first thought is how Belinda is in England… and then where is Jeani and we are NOT going to tell her when she is driving. I hang out and wait for J to get home… and in the mean time, I go into my prayer request mode. I called the church to get them praying, and then I called Belinda’s little sister, because I knew she wouldn’t have her sister to talk to right then and I wanted to make sure she was ok. Jeani got home from work and her brother, D, breaks the news and as I knew she would, she melted down. She did get to talk to B, who still doesn’t know what she is going to do. It is 9:30 over there… so it is about bedtime, but I figure she won’t be sleeping real soon.

Please keep them in your prayers, the whole family. Especially Belinda as she tries to decide to come home early or stay or what she needs to do for her and her family. Thanks.

God does truly amaze me. If I hadn’t listened to F today, I wouldn’t have been here for Jeani or D or any of this. He just seems to put us where we need to be when we need to be… providing we listen!!!

Were my quotes that hard or did not enough people see them??? go here. There are only 3 figured out… out of 15. Come on people… can’t be that hard… or is it that no one knows me and my favorite movies???

So I spent the whole weekend doing nothing but Emmaus stuff… or so it felt. Saturday, which was absolutely beautiful… again, I was inside all day at a team meeting for the June Walk. We even got out early, and I swear within 10 minutes of getting home, the temp dropped by about 20 degrees and it started snowing before dark. It is just wrong!! Oh, but I am really excited… one of the ladies that was in my now defunct reunion group is working the June walk. I haven’t seen her or spent any time with her since… since My walk I think, which was 3 years ago this month. That is a long time. She had gone to school… and is now done and working and now working a walk. I am so excited… and the other God thing… she is one of my prayer partners… and the people who did the prayer partners had no clue we use to be in a RG together!!! God is so good!!

Sunday I got to go to bridal shower for my friend’s dd, who was in the youth group when I was a youth sponsor. Yes, I am past the feeling old part… that happened when Jeani had her baby almost 3 years ago (I was her confirmation mentor when she was in 8th grade :)) Then I left and went to the min x min for the walk next week. Yes, they have everything on a weekend broken down that close… making sure that stuff is where it needs to be when. it is an amazing thing.

And then last night I have my reunion group. I have missed these ladies… it has been too many weeks since we all actually made it!! We worked on stuff for the walk. I am so excited. Did I mention I am sponsoring someone??? My first time sponsoring someone I don’t really know. God is stretching me this time, that is for sure… It is going to be good!!

Today I went to a funeral for a wonderful woman who lead such a Christ centered life. It is so great to go to a memorial and have it be such a celebration. I hope my funeral is that nice when the time comes and that everyone says how I lived my life to Honor the Lord!!

I had applied to join a blog group over the weekend… and had to giggle when my reason for not being accepted was that I hadn’t had my blog going for over a month. I have had a blog so long… it just might have changed locations… but it has been a part of my life for so long!!! And if you google Crayons… I show up in the first 2 pages… or at least I use too… haven’t done it in a bit… but if you google Crayonsetc… it is all me… or links to me I emailed them back and said that must have been a problem from when I updated my wordpress and will fix it. I got it fixed now… so there are archives and a calendar and comments in the side bar… but when I tried to move them to different locations in the side bar, it just didn’t work…. so I put it back to where it started and will have to recruit some help from some friends I know html, but not too good with the php stuff!!!

Almost half way done until Belinda gets back from England. I am enjoying having F every day, but I have forgotten how tiring it can be having a 2 year old running around the house. I think having her here has cured the baby cravings… K is 10 years old now, do I really want to start over? Yes… and it is easier when you start from not crawling and work your way up!! Oh my goodness…. it is april. Oh, so not going there!!!

Oh, and I got a call about VBS tonight. I had told them that I would do whatever they need me to do… I had signed up to work with preschool. Today she asked if I would coordinate the preschool crafts. (figuring we need to do different stuff than the older kids). See, another God thing… cuz VBS is the same week as the June walk. Doing this… as long as i have it all coordinated, it won’t matter if I miss Friday! (and being conference room, I don’t have to be at the walk until 4 on Thursday, so I can still do Thursday morning stuff… this is June though, not next week!!) Life just seems to be getting crazy… or just busy. And this is without a job. I can’t imagine doing all this with a job… but I promised dh!!

So, go hug your loved ones, tell them how much you love them… and enjoy your day.

I found out over the weekend that a family friend died. She was closer to my parents, mostly because she moved to Phoenix only a few years before I got married, and then I moved away. Her dd and I were friends, but mostly cuz she was friends with my best friend. I guess it is kind of weird though… Mom pointed out to me that all my old friends will be in town this week for her funeral. Both Wendy’s live in New Mexico… just at opposite ends of the state (actually, her dd Wendy might even be in Southern Colorado, I just can’t remember the exact town… Now that I think about it, I think she is in Durango).

Sandy has had epilepsy her whole life, and recently they found out she had leukemia and she got an infection and on Friday she went to be with the Lord. The good news is, she is up dancing in heaven with her new perfect body, no more pain, no more seizures… What a celebration is going on!!!

and the weirdest part is that it is NOT due to weather. People who don’t turn on TV or radio in the morning will have no clue and no reason to even look….

It is due to vandalism! They let all the air out of the bus tires… all 120 of them. At least they didn’t slash them… so it really only causes a loss of time for the people who have to go around and fill All those tires, but still. I was sitting her this morning trying to figure out how someone could cause that much damage because it is not in a secluded part of town anymore, like it use to be… it is next door to a Wal-Mart. That was before I heard what they actually had done. Now, if they actually pulled all the stems, that is a whole nother story… it would have been faster, but man, it will be a pain to fix and fill!!!

I called my boss at 6:45 this morning, figuring they would still have work, but to let her know… again, cuz who would have looked. I told her that I figured she would get a WHOLE LOT of phone calls!! I got 7 emails from the school district today. I think they wanted to make sure we knew!!! Ken had heard it on the radio… the first thing I did was pause and double check the date… I knew it wasn’t the 1st anymore!!

What a crazy day!!!

Where do we even start? And the weirdest part is, I am not even talking about the medical stuff.

Friday at work, I found out that the Children’s Director resigned on Thursday effective immediately. Wow. Ok, that probably means more work for my boss, since that is her boss. Then I found out that the youth director also resigned, but he gave them until the end of confirmation which is the 18th of May. (and I was being good and not writing about any of this until today since the kids weren’t suppose to find out until today). Yes, I am still trying to decide what I want to do, but actually neither of these 2 things effect me or my job unless they decide to get rid of our program or something.

Yesterday was our Emmaus Team meeting. Well the one thing we have always known is that Satan does NOT like these weekends to happen, and the one thing that I have learned, the more he fights us, the more that the weekend is going to be amazing!! (and that there are people there who God has plans for!!) With the amount that out teams have been attacked, I am just so excited about the weekend. I can’t believe the last team meeting is over and that there is only 2.5 weeks until we leave. Then they also announced how bad that he is attacking the summer walks. We have not had summer walks in our community for so many years, I know that they are needed so badly, and, like I said, the attack that the teams are coming under is just confirming that fact. They are needing to replace a lot of team members in key positions, so I did send an email and said if she needs me, to hollar… cuz the cool part about me is, I can do ANY job there is except clergy (and it isn’t that I don’t think I could do that one, but I think we could get into a little trouble with the fact I am not even in seminary… but I think I could do a good job with one of their talks!!) Guess we will see what happens. I haven’t even heard anything.

Then today I get to church and found out that our Sr. youth pastor had resigned (I apparently missed the message or something) so our Jr. Hi youth pastor is now the Sr. and he is trying to get it all transitioned nicely and hire a new Jr. Hi youth pastor. I am going to sure miss Pastor Sam, but I know God will definitely use him somewhere. He has gifted that young man, and he can sure preach!! I hope he is moving up in a church where ever he goes!!!

Then the icing on the cake is that Ken has been offered a job. It is with a company he has done freelance stuff for, so he already knows the program, and they had approached him about a year ago, but I don’t think that the time was right. He met with them on Saturday (yes, while I was in Canon City at the team meeting), and then he and I will be going to dinner with everyone from the company tomorrow night. They are a small company (which is a good fit for Ken) and not everyone works here in town, but they are all in town from today through Wednesday, so this worked well.

Ken also has a meeting at work on Wednesday about the job he was applying for. They are currently going through re-organization in their department and everyone is having to apply and interview and the whole nine yards for the positions they want. The job he is interested in would hopefully be a raise as well, but I don’t know. I am just praying that if this is the time for the move, than every door be opened. If this is not, than God please shut every door and make it very clear what he is supposed to do.

Oh, and did I mention, if he takes the new job, yah, he will be working from home. Thus the more motivation for me to get a job OUT of the house or we will end up killing each other!!! (although I have suggested that we make him an actual office in the basement so he can ‘go’ to work… probably even put the door back on down there!)

I got my peony planted today. It is so beautiful outside. I didn’t get any of the rocks moved for my garden today… but that is because I fell asleep. (isn’t that what you are supposed to do on a Sunday afternoon?). All my veggies are starting to poke in. I have them started in the little jiffy gardens in the front window. It is much cheaper this way than buying plants.

So, how was your weekend??? Oh, and I got the RSS link put in the side bar if you want to have my posts in a reader or I think there is even an option to email them to you