Dancing in the Rain

Here is today's wise & witty quote: "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." --Helen Keller Speaking of life's adventures, little Stellan's latest adventure seems to be winding down somewhat. He's been moved to the step-down ICU and his breathing is getting much better. Here's MckMama's latest update: http://www.mycharmingkids.net/2008/12/movin-on-down.html Oh, and also speaking of life's adventures, I'm going to try to get a "year in review" post done either later tonight or tomorrow...we'll see when it happens! We have company here tonight, so it might depend on when she leaves. Well, I've gotta go finish supper. LOL, that reminds me of a game we played Christmas night. It's called "Imagine If...", and it has all these cards with crazy "imagine if" questions on them, and you have to insert the name of someone playing. One of the cards that had my name asked, "Imagine if Haley were a tr...

First, an update on little Stellan: he's had a pretty rough, often scary time for the last little while, but he seems to be doing better now. Here's the latest update on MckMama's blog: http://www.mycharmingkids.net/2008/12/guess-who.html OK, now for Tuesday's Tidbit...well, I suppose I could use the fact that I am the last one up here at our house right now as a tidbit, since that almost NEVER happens, but I had already planned to use this little interesting fact: 2009 will be one second late! Did you know that every so often "they" (the infamous "they" that nobody really knows who "they" are...) have to add in a "leap second" to keep the atomic clocks in time with the earth's rotation? Right now, "Father Time" is about six-tenths of a second ahead of "Mother Earth". By delaying the coming of the new year by just one second tomorrow night, the earth will then be four-tenths ahead of the clocks. Just to giv...

Merry Christmas, everyone!!! :D May your Christmas be richly blessed with the Grace and Joy that was born in a barn and laid in a manger so long ago. Love y'all!

Well, "Wise & Witty Wednesday" won on the poll so that's what we'll go with. Here, once again just barely on Wednesday, is today's quote: "If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older." --Abraham Sutzkever Merry Christmas Eve! :D

Here we go with today's tidbit. Me being the "word-aholic" that I am, I loved this little interesting bit: The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. We had a great trip to San Angelo!! Lots of fun and laughter and way too much sugar...which might have played in to some of the laughter. :D We played "Who, Sir? Me, Sir?" yesterday afternoon; always a riot with our family! Papa was the "caller", and he is SO good at that. The faster it goes, the more flustered everybody gets, and the more fun it is!! The ones who were really cute, though, were the little kids that came in to play with us later...watching them trying to a) remember what they were supposed to say when and b) spit it out before being sent to the back of the line was as much fun as anything! Then we played "In a Far Off Land"...that one you have to see to understand just how hilarious it was. I think Micah got...

an ornament on our tree here in Springtown, reminding us of Who this Christmas season is all about taken by: me *I know that today is not Sunday, but I had the absolutely perfect picture for this week's "Simply Sunday" and decided that I was going to post it even though I wasn't here on Sunday. So, enjoy!*

Just to let you all know, we're headed to San Angelo today to do Christmas with Mom's family, and we'll be back on Tuesday sometime. Y'all have a blessed weekend! :D Love you all!

There's less than 45 minutes left in Wednesday, but it IS still Wednesday and here's the post I promised. :D I collect quotes. I love those short little bits of wise or witty (or sometimes both!) words that various people through the ages have said. But what fun is a quote if you can't share it with somebody?! So, since this is *my* blog...I'm going to use it to share my collection of quotes with you! One at a time, of course. On Wednesdays. The only question is: what should we call it? I've thought of two different names for this "theme"-- Wise & Witty Wednesday Who Said It? Wednesday If we decide on "Wise & Witty", I'll just post a quote each Wednesday, naming the author. If we go with "Who Said It?", I'll post a quote each Wednesday without naming the author and you will have until the next time I post to guess "who said it"--in a comment of course! :D The fun part of that idea is the interaction and feedbac...

Well, it's time for... *drum roll, please* Tuesday's Tidbit!! :D Here's the little totally-unneccessary-information trivia bit for today: Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. I think we adults need to laugh more, what do you think? :D In that spirit, here's a little something to tickle your funny bone: A friend gave me a report with Stats showing that 4,153,237 people got married last year. Now I don't want to start any trouble but I can't help but wonder. Shouldn't that be an even number? In other news, I was *supposed* to work this week (today and tomorrow) but good ol' Texas weather...it decided to ice overnight in the Frisco area, and since the high today is only supposed to be about 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it's NOT going to be melting. So, I'm at home. Actually, it will kind of be nice to have a couple of extra...

OK, I first saw this on Elyse's blog, and thought it looked like fun, so I'm going to try it. It's actually hosted by MckMama ...her blog is a lot of fun to read, too, so go check it out! :D So, here we go; the point is that I'm going tell you all the things (or all the things I can think of) that I "didn't" do this week. I did not trip and fall while running up to our back porch with my dog yesterday, banging my shin (hard) on the bottom step. I do not, therefore, now have a big "beautiful" bruise on my left shin. I did not cheer on the Dallas Cowboys yesterday while also telling them, "But don't sack Manning!" Eli Manning, that is, the New York Giants' quarterback. (it didn't work...poor guy "did not" get sacked 8 times! But, the Cowboys WON!!! Or should I say they did not win...? *shrug* I've got myself totally confused now!) I did not stay up until at least midnight pretty much every night this week...I w...

"our" deer in our backyard here in Springtown taken by: me * I'm sorry I'm just now getting this posted...I've been trying to post it all afternoon, but our internet connection apparently couldn't handle the Blogger uploading thing. So, I finally found a "round about" way of doing it. Hopefully this works right! :D*

OK, so I said that a post was coming tomorrow. Hey, it's "tomorrow"! So what that it's now tomorrow's tomorrow...and perhaps now I have you sufficiently confused that you won't care that I'm a day off when I said I was going to post. *vbg* So, let's see...longer and newsier. Well, longer won't be difficult; I think this post is already longer than Tuesday's. Newsier, on the other hand...when nothing much is going on, that one can be hard to accomplish! So if the events of my life start to sound boring or mundane, just remember this: it's a lot more fun to live it than to talk about it! I've almost got all my Christmas shopping done; now it's just a matter of finishing the making/putting together somehow of various and sundry items. Once I have a present for everyone in my immediate family actually in my possession, I'll wrap them and put them under the tree. I like being the first one to put gifts under the tree; but I like to...

I think it's my internet connection. I've been so spoiled with high-speed, fairly reliable internet all my life. Midland's was the worst, but even it was better than this I think. I have a whole long blog post all typed out, and it won't post it. So, I'm going to see if it will post this shorter one. If so, I may try the longer one again...and, it may be tomorrow before it gets published. :P Computers are enough to drive me crazy sometimes!

OK, I'm racing the clock to get this posted on Tuesday... :D Here's today's "Tuesday's Tidbit": The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. A longer, newsier blogpost should be coming tomorrow! :D

The flag next to the mailboxes in the Highland Range Estates in San Angelo, Tx taken by: me

Well, so I didn't get the little Christmas trees out in the front yard... *shrug* I did, however, manage to get menus and grocery shopping for the next week done, reply to some e-mails that have been sitting in my inbox for a while (if yours hasn't been replied to yet, I'm sorry and I'm working on it! :D), and figure out a pattern that will work for some Christmas presents the boys are going to make. Oh, and I got to Christmas shop with my sister over the phone (we live almost 4 hours apart, how else are we going to do it?!). Speaking of which, there are a couple things I'm supposed to go check out online...I'll do that real quick when I get done here! We also called Papa Rollins and sang him "Happy Birthday". Don't ask me how old he is, I can't ever keep up with my grandparents' ages! We ended our evening watching My Fair Lady . It's kinda strange to be hanging out with all boys and it be their idea to watch that particular movie. :D O...

You know that great feeling when you put your hand in the pocket of a coat you haven't worn in a while and find some money you forgot was there? I got to experience that feeling the other day when I went to change my address for my bank account online and discovered that there were $10 in there that I didn't know I had! I realize that $10 isn't a whole lot of money, but when you've been an unemployed babysitter for a few months, it looks really great. I had completely forgotten that when I switched to Bank of America, I was supposed to get $10 because I was "referred" by my parents, and it had been deposited a couple weeks ago. Cool! :D I had so much fun babysitting yesterday and Tuesday! The boys have grown a LOT since I last saw them about 5 months ago. It was most noticeable in Reilly, who is now walking and chatters (unintelligibly) nonstop. Noah, who is 4, "interprets" for him...which is always cute and usually very funny, since apparently Reill...

OK, so since "Tidbit Tuesday" won on the poll, and I liked my mom's suggestion anyway, we're going with Tuesday's Tidbit! :D Here's the tidbit for this Tuesday: What famous person invented the "bucket seat" for cars? Steve McQueen - Not only was Steve McQueen famous for his movies, he was also well known for racing. A patent for the "Buck Seat" was issued in 1970. May the Lord bless you all richly with His sweet grace today! :D

Last week, while Amber and Caleb were here, we played a game of Life (Jonathan's favorite game--hence the reason we were playing it). About halfway through, somebody landed on a "Spin to Win" space. If you haven't played the newer version of the game, the "Spin to Win" space is where everybody gets to pick a number and bet some money; the person who landed on the space spins the wheel, and if it lands on your number you get 10 times the amount of money you bet (it's all pretend, we don't really gamble, so don't get all judgmental on us! :D). Well, Amber had a "share the wealth" card that let her pick four numbers. She bet $100,000...and won! (actually, she might have bet more...I can't remember, but I'm sure if I'm wrong, she'll post a comment and set it all straight :D). Later she won another Spin to Win, and ended up with $4,000,000 (yep, that's four million ) in the bank. Well, the next time somebody (me) landed...

I know that my dog was the subject of a post yesterday , but having her around again got me to thinking about something today. Sugar is a loyal, dedicated dog (as most dogs tend to be), and she definitely knows that she is mine! Because she knows that she is mine, she follows me around wherever I go, my faithful "little" shadow. She loves so much just to be in my presence; it doesn't matter what I'm doing or what she's doing, she wants to be with me. And if I reach to pet her or talk to her, even though she doesn't really understand anything I'm saying, she gets excited like it's the greatest joy in her life to hear my voice and feel my touch. Some of you have probably figured out where I'm going with this. :D Yep...I wish I was more like my dog. Am I as loyal and dedicated to my heavenly Father as my dog is to me? He has done so much more for me than I will ever do for Sugar, and He loves me infinitely more than I ever could love my dog! So when ...

The sunrise through our bedroom window in Denison a couple years ago. taken by: me I'm thinking about changing this theme from "Silent Sunday" to "Simply Sunday", just because if I add a caption it's not exactly "silent", and if I don't add a caption everybody wants to know where the picture was taken and who took it. *shrug* What do y'all think?

My sweet, precious, most beautiful puppy came home today! While we were living in Midland, I couldn't have her at our house there, so my awesome aunt Sara has been taking care of her. But today, we went and picked her up and brought her home. Oh, how good it is to have her back! I've missed her so much... here is a picture; it's not from today, I'll have to kidnap my mom's camera at some point to get some new pictures of her. I think maybe I'll have to add a digital camera of my own to my Christmas wishlist... *shrug* I was going to post some other pictures of her, but I'm having trouble with the photo feature, so this one will have to do for now. Some other time I'll post a picture of when she was a puppy; she was SO cute! Brown Sugar ( Sugar for short) Well, I'm off to bed! Y'all have a great night, and a blessed Sunday tomorrow! Oh, and don't forget to vote on the "Tuesday's" poll at the top of the page; you have until Monda...

I can hear some of y'all laughing, but I have waited as long as I could to ask this question. I've forced myself to wait until after Thanksgiving so the number of weird looks I would get would be kept to a minimum. Don't get me wrong, I love Thanksgiving, too. But Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. It's so full of magic and mystery and wonder...how can I help but love it? The magic of soft little lights, emphasizing a feeling of peace and joy and rest that somehow fills this very busy season. The mystery of almighty God, come to us as a little baby, bound by limits of time and space. The wonder that He did it all for love. Just because He loved us . He loved me. He loved you. So He came. If it weren't for Christmas, there would be no Easter. If it weren't for Easter, there would be no Thanksgiving. And with no reason to give thanks, there would be no reason to live day by day, much less a reason for celebration of any sort. So when I say "I love...

Just a quick post before I go to bed...I meant to post this earlier in the day! Oh, well... I hope you all had a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving! Including my Canadian friends, who celebrated Thanksgiving sometime last month... :D Love y'all! Our Thanksgiving was great. We had some family that came out to our new house. Amber and Caleb were here, of course, and my dad's mom came. Two of his older sisters came--Janet and Sara. And Sara had her friend Michael and his son Richard with her. Richard is an absolutely adorable little 5-year-old, every bit as cute and charming as my brothers were at that age. He's got great manners, very carefully and diligently drilled into him by his father, and he's just so sweet. At lunch today, out of the blue, he made this announcement that totally stole my heart all over again: "Haley's my friend." :D He and I hit it off great the first time we met, a little over a year ago when I was at Sara's house for a writer...

I love the idea of "themes" for various days of the week, so I'm slowly coming up with some of my own. Be warned: I may eventually have a theme for every day of the week! :D I've thought of two different ones for Tuesday; both would have the same content, just different titles. The idea is that I'll post some interesting tidbit/trivia fact--from the Bible, history, science, whatever. So should it be called Tidbit Tuesday or Trivia Tuesday? You have until next Monday night to vote on the poll at the top of the page!! :D Here's today's little "tidbit": Moses and Aaron (from the book of Exodus in the Bible) were their grandfather's nephews. Their father Amram married his aunt Jochebed (his father's sister). Don't believe me? Read Exodus 6:20 ! :D In other news, Amber and Caleb came in from San Angelo really early this morning (as in, 2am). We've had fun with them today! This morning, we took our annual family pictures. We have decid...

I just have this little thought that has been spinning around in my brain since church this morning. The pastor at the little Baptist church we visited today said something interesting; he was talking about how people tend to not take hell seriously, and he said, "How terrible is hell? It's so terrible, Jesus died to keep you from going there. Jesus said, 'You'll go to hell over My dead body .'" (emphasis added) Over My dead body! Well, my little brain spun off like it does on occasion, all caught up in that phrase (I have notes from the rest of the sermon, but I couldn't tell you much about it *sheepish grin*). I've heard the idea before, just never heard it expressed like that, and something about the way he put it gripped me. Jesus Christ did, and is doing, everything possible, everything necessary to give us eternal life. He doesn't want one single person to die in their sins, to suffer eternal punishment. So He died. And rose again. And even ...

Hey, y'all! Well, slowly but surely we're getting everything unpacked and organized and getting settled in here in Springtown. We mostly just have little odds 'n' ends stuff to do and the decorating part (hanging pictures and, for me, my doll shelf :D). Hopefully we'll be done by next Wednesday, since we have some family coming in for Thanksgiving! Last night we played a game of Bible Outburst. SO much fun! :D We played Dad and Micah against Josiah, Jonathan, and me (Mom was out studying with some friends/fellow students). The J's and I won! :D Our last card was "Names, titles, and descriptions of Satan", so Dad and Micah were giving us a hard time about winning with the devil. :P Actually, the card that pulled us within winning range was "Events in the life of Joseph"... having just recently studied the book of Genesis, I had a bit of an edge. We got all the answers on that one. :D Oh, speaking of Bible-things...here's a taste of the kin...

OK, so if "life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans", then we were really living this weekend! And if all it takes to make God laugh is to "tell Him your plans", then I think we've had Him in stitches. However, we did manage to break Murphy's law since there were a LOT of things that could have gone wrong but didn't. :D By the time we left Midland at about 5pm Saturday evening, we had to have at least been on plan R or something, but everything was finally loaded (into one big U-haul truck and 2 U-haul trailers!) and we were on our way. We got to our house about midnight, unloaded enough stuff to get mattresses out so we could sleep, and crashed for the night. Yesterday, we spent the day unloading stuff with the help of a family Mom met here, so now everything is in the house and we just have to unpack it. *rolls eyes* Definitely more fun than packing, but still not my favoritest thing in the world to do! (I know, favoritest ...

Hey, all! :D We're loading up the truck and trailer tomorrow, and will be headed to our new house either tomorrow evening or Saturday morning, depending on when we finish loading. We'd appreciate your prayers for safe travel, especially since I'm going to be driving the pick-up which will be pulling the trailer--yeehaw--thanks to my "little" brother Caleb not being able to come help us move. He'll actually be here tomorrow to help load up (we told him we need his muscles!), he just didn't get enough time off to drive over there with us. :P I love driving the truck, just don't care for pulling the trailer. Oh, well...I'm sure we'll survive! Those of you who remember my adventures in our 15-passenger van can just remind yourselves that it's been a couple years since then...and pray extra hard! :D (I'm just kidding, by the way; though "safe travels" prayers on our behalf are certainly welcome, I don't anticipate having any pr...

I found out about this from the 4littlemen blog . On Tuesday, November 11, 2008, Melody Joy and Madison Hope Delgado were born. They were conjoined twins, joined at the heart. They died about an hour after their birth. I don't personally know the Delgados, but reading their blog has made me cry! They are trusting in God's sovreign, mysterious plan right now, and I know they would appreciate your prayers. You can post a comment on their blog, Good Times Delgado Style , to tell them you're praying for them. Father, I pray that you would surround this sweet, young family with Your hope and grace. Wrap them up in Your arms of love and let them feel Your strong embrace. Amen.

So, I am officially tired of packing. Actually, I was tired of packing about halfway through the first box. :D We have a lot done--but there sure is a LOT left to do!! Right now, our plan is start loading the truck/trailer on Friday so we can head out of Midland either Friday night or as early as possible on Saturday. That only gives us about 2 and 1/2 more days to finish packing and cleaning. I think we can do it, I'm just going to be really sick of packing before we're done! :D Unpacking is much more fun... I have now had two people text me to ask, "Are you in Weatherford yet?!" No, but we're headed that way as fast as we can! However, the question reminded me of the very infamous one that children all over the world have been known to ask: "Are we there yet?" And because my brain tends to ponder a subject until it is either thoroughly dead or has me thoroughly confused, I got to considering that question as it relates to life. So many of us rush thro...

No, I am not proposing that we live in silence for this Sunday....goodness, my family wouldn't survive 5 minutes! :D Rather, I'm starting a new tradition. I found this other blog ( 4 Little Men and Girly Twins --check it out, she has awesome pictures!) and she does a "Wordless Wednesday" post, where she just posts a picture. I thought it was a great idea, but in order to just borrow the idea and not plagiarize it, I decided to do it as a "Silent Sunday". :D So, I'll try to post a random picture every Sunday... Mom took this picture in Colorado this summer.

Just a quick post, just because I had a kinda interesting experience today. I usually leave those to my sister, who works in an ER, has been to two different countries (Taiwan and Bolivia) and tends to create interesting experiences wherever she goes anyways, but I guess today it was my turn. I was just walking through Walmart, just there to grab a couple things real quick and head on to other errands, when suddenly the electricity went out. You could hear a collective gasp all through the store! Kind of funny, really. The lights flickered back on for a moment then went out again. It was not totally dark in the store, thanks to the skylights, but it got eerily quiet for a few seconds before conversations resumed, children started crying, and people went back to gathering whatever it was they were there to get. I guess we all figured the electricity would be back on any minute. Fifteen minutes later, there were long lines at the checkouts (where, of course, they couldn't check anyon...

Have I mentioned that I love all the cool stuff I can do on this new blog?! :D You may have noticed the music player between the header and the posts section; I have it set not to autostart, so you can click play if you want to listen to the music, or leave it off if you so desire. It's just a random, shuffled list of some of my favorite songs. I'll probably be changing it up every now and then. I love music!!! :D Well, we made our trip to Weatherford. We drove up there Saturday afternoon/evening, and came home Sunday night/Monday morning. Our house there is awesome! It's actually on the outskirts of the little town of Springtown, population about 3,000. The house has 4 bedrooms (one will be Dad's office), 2 bathrooms, 2 living rooms (one will be the classroom/library), a BIG entryway, kitchen (complete with a GAS stove! Thank God! :D), dining room, and a sun room (which will be Mom's scrapbook room). It's on 7 acres, with trees, a pool, and a trampoline. :D We...

Hey, y'all! OK, so honestly I'm just posting for two simple, kind of crazy reasons: I've been bitten by the "blog bug" :D I needed the "posts" section of my blog to be at least as long as the sidebar items over to the right. :D But, as long as I'm posting I'll try to come up with something interesting or something. Or perhaps a series of random things...yes, that's what I'll do! Random thing #1: Over to the right, under the "about me" bit, you'll notice a "subscribe via e-mail" section. If you subscribe to my blog via e-mail, you'll receive an e-mail every time I post something new. Not just a notification e-mail, either, but it will actually e-mail you the new post. Pretty cool, huh? I'm loving all the cool stuff I can do with Blogger (and FeedBurner, which is who does the e-mail thing) that I couldn't do with my "code it all yourself" blog! :D Random thing #2: I am sitting here, in my purple...

Well, here we go. I've started a more "traditional" sort of blog. :D So far, I'm loving the cool (and easy!) formatting options, and the quick 'n' easy posting ability. Oh, and it has spellcheck, so that should help with my inevitable typos. The automatic archiving and comments are going to be really nice, too! For anybody who wants to read blog posts prior to this one, I'll leave my RejoicingComet blog up at http://www.psalm686.com/RejoicingComet . --added in later: I will leave my old blog up for a while, but I've also discovered I can move those old posts over here by playing with the "timestamp" feature, so I'll be working on getting it all moved into one spot. Just in case you cared! :D-- Also, just a note for those that may care, anonymous comments are enabled on my blog, which means that anyone can post a comment even if you don't have a Blogger account. I don't really have much to say right now, and certainly not anything ...

Is anyone else in a Christmas mood already? I'm already playing Christmas music in my room...alternating between Christmas Gaither Vocal Band Style and Christmas with Ernie Haase & Signature Sound . Both are very awesome CDs! We're in the process of packing and getting ready to move. Mom's found a house for us in Weatherford (yay!), so when we head that way next weekend we'll probably go ahead and take a load of stuff with us. We're going to try and have as much as possible packed and ready to go by Friday! I really strongly dislike packing/moving, and will be quite glad when we get settled in our new house. *sigh* OK, I forgot a picture when I posting the pictures the other night. On the way back to Weatherford from Wichita Falls, we stopped in the little town of Windthort, Tx (I'm pretty sure that's what it was called...) to put gas in the car. We just loved this sign on the gas pump: Only in Smalltown, USA! :D Well, I really don't have much to s...

Hey, y'all! :D Mom sent me the pictures today, so here they are! Thanks so much, Momma--you're the best! :D First, some of the pictures from during the concert: This picture on the left is David Phelps singing "End of the Beginning" and here is the Gaither Vocal Band singing Gaither Vocal Band and Ernie Haase & Signature Sound sing "Give It Away" After the concert, I met Marsh and Wes from the Gaither Vocal Band (for the first time!) and got my picture taken with them; they had a crowd around them, so I didn't get to say anymore than "hi, y'all were good, it was so good to see you" (or something lame like that)...I always blank out when I meet "famous" people, I can't think of anything to say. :P Oh, and Marsh asked what my name was, so I also said, "I'm Haley." :D Later I came back to them to get them to sign the picture I bought of the GVB reunion taping, and as Wes signed it he said, "Man, I have on ...

Oh, wow! The concert was so awesome!!! :D Sorry I'm just now getting on to do a report, but things have been crazy. I don't have pictures yet; my mom is going to have to e-mail them to me. Hopefully I'll have them up soon! Throughout this "concert report", I've made the song titles links to YouTube videos of that song...not from the Wichita Falls concert, though. So they aren't exactly the way we heard them Saturday night, but they're pretty close! :D Also, this list of songs is NOT comprehensive; I can't remember every song every body sang. :D We just barely got to the coliseum in time, but we did manage to find our seats just as Rory Rigdon finished the announcements and the music got started. Rory is the Gaithers' soundman and part of the comedy duo known as "Kevin and Rory"...more on them later! We were pretty far up in the balcony, so for the most part we didn't take pictures during the concert. I think Mom took a few towar...

Hey, y'all! Well, I am working on my list of things to do (and the many, many things that come up for me to do that are not on my list) in the next 2 and 1/2 hours before I head out of town--again! The trip to San Angelo was great; I had so much fun, hanging out with Amber and Caleb, getting to see and visit some of our friends in San Angelo, teaching Good News Club, going to church--even babysitting! :D The only part of the whole trip that was not fun was being sick in the middle of the night Tuesday night...I still have no idea what caused it or anything, I threw up once and then was fine the next morning. My nurse-big-sister was not happy that I didn't wake her up to take care of me, but what could she have done? *shrug* Tuesday evening, Amber, Caleb, and I went to see Fireproof--again. It was Caleb's first time to see it, but it was mine and Amber's third. :D It's a great movie, y'all! And still in the top 10, much to the surprise of many people (but not any...

Fall is definitely in the air! Here in Midland, we are enjoying our cooler weather; it only gets up to about 85 during the day! :D We love it! OK, I only have a minute because I'm headed to San Angelo today to teach at the Good News Club, and I need to practice the lesson before I have to leave as well as pack, etc., but I just had to post some good news: I got my grade for Genesis last night, and I got an A (93%)! :D I'm excited... :D I'm well on my way in Exodus; I've done all the reading and listening and now I have to write two papers. Since I'm in San Angelo until Friday morning, I don't think I'll be getting much done this week, but hopefully I'll be able to get those done next week! :D May the Lord bless you all with His goodness and grace, and may your week be filled with His joy! :D