Time with Scott's girls

We watched Scott's girls - Destiny, Jessica, and Katelyn on Thursday and part of Friday. We had a blast. We made a peach cake and had a marshmallow roast on Friday night. (Julie & Cliff came over to help initiate the new fire pit their gift to John for his birthday.) We talked, laughed, shopped, baked, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It is always good to catch up on what kids are thinking these days. We made some wonderful memories. Have I told you lately how awesome my grandbabies are?

Today is John's birthday

Today is my honey's birthday. He's 56 chronologically, but he says he feels he's in his early 30s. Since I only feel around 28-32, works for me. We had a delightful day. Took a break from our regular breakfast routine, and each had a Dunkin' Donut - oh, so good. I gave him an outfit to wear today. Hung out at home, ran a few errands, and then went to supper at Red Lobster. Going to watch some TV, maybe a movie, and give him the rest of his presents. He's the best! Happy Birthday, honey - I love ya.

Father's Day weekend

I've really got to get back into the swing of blogging. We had a very busy weekend. Thursday night, we went to Pack & Pray to send off our folks going to CityReach 08 in Washington, PA. CityReach is a program where people from all across the Nation go to one church and community to help spread the Word of God. They help the church & community in many ways - Bible schools, construction, yard work, free car washes as an opportunity to share Jesus or at least, give them a pamphlet about the local church, etc. Our young people and leaders always receive a blessing. On Friday, I shopped for John for Father's Day and his birthday is this Wednesday. Saturday, we took all 6 granddaughters to the pool - spent about 3 hours in the pool myself (the whole time the grandbabies were in). My knees and sciatica have been speaking to me ever since, but it was worth it. Sunday (Father's Day), we went to the church in Point of Rocks - one of our "kids" was preaching and asked if I would come play for the service. Dave gave a great sermon on our responsibility to train up children in the ways of the Lord. He applied to anyone who had contact with children. Then we asked Dave, Jill & Jack (their 1 yr old son) to join us at Golden Corral where we met our boys and grandbabies. Cliff & Julie are on the CityReach trip. So we had a total of 13 at lunch seated at 2 tables. Our waitress asked if Jack were our grandson and I said yes. She then said is that all you have. I pointed to the other table and said they're ours too. She said all of them. I said yes. She said she quit after one that was enough. I jokingly said we just said go forth and multiply. She just shook her head. Those of you who read the blog, know we love kids (of all heights) and have many in our "family" - a good number of which we did not give birth to, but we love them none the less. It was a busy time, but the Lord blessed beyond measure. Look for the blessings around you today...

Thankful

We are so thankful to God for protecting us during the storm yesterday. Around 3 PM we had a mighty storm. The lightening, wind, and rain were fierce. We lost power and our phones. After the storm, we surveyed the damage and we're so grateful to God. Our tree by the driveway is at least 30ft tall. It has 3 large branches off the main trunk. The storm broke off one of those branches at the trunk. It landed away from our house toward our neighbor. If it had come toward our house, it would have damaged John's car and our garage. On the other side of our home, a 30 ft pine tree was uprooted and laid down right between our home and our neighbor's. It was our neighbor's tree and our homes are closer together on this side of the house. He got home shortly after the storm, and his first comment was "this is amazing!" It was hard to believe - a sure sign of God's power and protection. We took Mom to get something to eat since we had no power and on the way back we saw a double rainbow - another sign and promise from God. (Hard to see, but over the left top corner of the yellow sign was a piece of the 2nd rainbow.)

Time with family

I'm getting behind in my blogging again. Spent some wonderful time with our family this past week. Had a picnic, went to a parade, and enjoyed talking with each of them. It's amazing what's important to us at different ages in our lives - sometimes we forget. To the 3-yr. old, it might be how many times we can go down the slide; to the 8-yr. old, it might be what candy should I buy; to the tweens, it might be cute boy at 2 o'clock; to the 13-yr old, it might be looking forward to graduating from middle school; to the 20 & 30 yr old, it might be job or personal goals; and to those of us who are older - why is youthful energy wasted on the young! Age is only a number, I think I'm about 8 today, but my body feels like why is youthful energy wasted on the young! And with that being said, I'm off to the grocery store...