Meanderings on a Sunday Night

Let's see if this works. I'm blogging from Nordaggio's and the posting page is in Chinese.

Theresa just left today. It's so sad to see the kids leave after they visit. Sarah is leaving on Wednesday for more than a month. And let's not think about Elizabeth's 2 years in Honduras...

We had a weekend filled with fun, though - lots of garage sales, Spoons, and watching 24. And some stress.

I'm trying to get some work done before starting the week tomorrow, but I'm getting very distracted - reading the Peace Corps sites Liz is finding, playing Spider Solitaire, watching the always interesting exploits of Sarah's friend Amy as she tries to deliver an iced coffee to her friend.

A grateful list to start the week:

• Our family - the kids were such a support to me this weekend as I dealt with a difficult situation
  
• 24 - Doggone, I love that show. It's so well crafted and tightly executed.
  
• The Lord's willingness (more - desire!) to be a part of every moment of my life. I've told Chris to let me know when he's dropping me off at work if he sees a bearded man standing outside with a long robe and sandals. That will mean that I once again left God out of my workday. I'm working on that - falling flat on my face without Him helped the motivation quite a bit!!
• Sarah's trip - I'm trying to be grateful for that anyway. It will be a great opportunity, but I'm concerned for her safety in Columbia. It's been in the news lately. A lot of political unrest with bombings in Bogata (where she'll be). Dear Lord, let her have a clear knowledge of your will for her and the power to carry it out.
• Our visit with our friends the Craites last week - what a wonderful time.
  

OK, back to work.

I'm Getting Better!

Look at this! Only 2 months between blog entries!!!

Actually, Theresa is inspiring me. I have her blog up every day as a tab on my Firefox so I can remember to look at it (and remember where it is!). I've found her entries vvveerrrryyy interesting. Quite an amazing kid, ain't she?

I was getting stressed here at work and I said to myself, "Self, relax. Instead of yet one more time shoving lunch down and getting back to work, take a break." And look - this is what I found. I would say I'm going to do this more often, but I think there's a pretty darn good chance that my next log-in will be in December. So - no promises, one day at a time...

GENERAL MEANDERINGS:
Four of the five kiddos will be home as of tomorrow and I CAN'T WAIT. I'm going to take Friday off and we will go garage saling and generally have a wonderful girls time out.

I read Monica Madden's blog yesterday and was delighted. Those Madden kids are amazing. It's a good thing they have the same mix of 4 girls and 1 boy or our family's kids might have married and taken over the world :) It was so fun to read Pam and John's entries. Next time I will enter one myself, now that I know my new sign-in.

Liz and I had a great, long talk last night, curled up on easy chairs at my favorite coffee spot - Nordaggio's. I love that place.

Well, enough for now. See you in December!