Kickin' tail feathers in this thing called life!
As I type this a vehicle full of friends is starting the trek across the country. Their final destination is New York but there will be a layover HERE!! This will be the first of many (I hope) friends to come visit us in our new home.
I am praying for their safety and their sanity as they start out today – three of the five are young children. Hopefully it will be a fun trip and they will have the opportunity to see fun and beautiful things along the way.
We had about 10 minutes of very heavy downpour and strongish winds. Lots of rumbling thunder and lightening too. And then it was over. Just like that.
It’s been raining a little bit every afternoon. It blows in quickly, dumps, and then moves on. I still enjoy experiencing rain – especially since it isn’t all day long. The only downside is the muddy yard and cooped up kids. We have friends coming from AZ next week and I’m hoping that the rain will take a break while they’re here.
There’s a storm quickly approaching Roanoke… 70mph winds and hail. We’ve already lost power once, it’s just a matter of time before it goes again.
Here we go….
Chickie to the Boy: Your eyelashes are really long!
The Boy: My eyelashes are so long I can paint the wall with them.
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I don’t know that anyone will notice his eyelashes any more. They’ll be too distracted by his new bling…
Yes, that’s right. He got his ear pierced – which he paid for with his own money that he’d saved up. He has really gotten into wearing jewelry. What you don’t see in this picture is a glow-in-the-dark bracelet on his ankle, two bracelets – one out of yarn and another manly plastic one, and his javelina tooth necklace. He’s picky about his clothes and is already complaining that his hair is too long. It just been so entertaining seeing him come into his own, to see his likes and dislikes, which trends he follows and which ones he starts. Lately he’s been talking about starting up his own business – maybe picking up dog poop except that it utterly grosses him out so maybe not. He cracks me up and I love him so much! He’s my little man.
It’s over, it’s over, it’s over!!!! I am wiped out but it has been a really good week! The kids had a lot of fun and learned so much. Our teachers were awesome! I can hardly wait to see all the kids get up on the stage and sing on Sunday.
And the best part of the week??
We had THREE kids accept Christ as their Savior – woot, woot!!!
Tonight felt slow… I think we’ve hit that slump where the kids are all getting tired and the volunteers need that extra boost to make it through to the end!
The kids only need to bring a combined total of THREE friends tomorrow night and our Pastor has agreed to be dunked in the icy cold baptismal. They’re working hard on swaying me to get dunked if we get FIVE. If it happens there will be pictoral evidence for y’all.
Sorry for the short update but I’m one of those exhausted volunteers tonight.
Tonight was a blast! For once I wasn’t running around at the last minute trying to get supplies for a classroom or fix a broken computer. Whew!
During recreation we had the 50ft slip’n’slide set up and the kids had so much fun! I’d love to post some of the awesome pics I snapped but since they aren’t my kids I won’t be doing that (well, except for one picture – shhh don’t tell). I do have pics of my own crew to post though…..
This picture cracks me up because we’re all supposed to be praying but you always have that one kid that just has to look around.
I love these slip’n’slide pictures of my kiddos. First up is Beans… Her style is to run and slide on her knees.
The kids did a relay race with a leaking cup…. The Boy got a wee bit wet…
His style is full on belly… Just try to stay on the slide dude.
And these. Oh, these are my absolute favorite pictures.
My Chickie…
Whew! Day 2 of VBS is over! The kids were challenged last night to bring 10 friends tonight and if they did…. our Youth Guy would get dunked in an icey baptismal. We started the opening ceremony with 9 friends and the kids were bummed but during the video we had a 10th show up! Splish-splash!! It was great. Now the deal is if they bring 10 new friends tomorrow our Pastor will get dunked AND he has to sing the theme song while he’s doing it.
I’ve heard some rumblings among the kids that I should be next in line…….
ha.
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Today as the kids and I were running errands we passed a local cemetery. We’ve passed it quite often recently and Beans has become fascinated with the “dead people” as she calls it. Here’s today’s conversation:
Beans: Look guys! Look at all the dead people! There are tons!
Chickie: Yeah, it’s the cemetery.
Beans: Why are they all dead?
Me: Because you don’t bury people alive.
Beans: How do they get in there? Do they dig a hole?
Me: Yes.
Beans: When I’m dead how will I dig with a shovel?!
Me: You don’t dig the hole, other people will do it for you.
Beans: Oh. I want to go in the hole now.
Aloha! Tonight was the first Wave of our Outrigger Island vacation bible school. And I survived!!!
We had everything from kids arriving thirty minutes early to malfunctioning computers to upset waveriders (kids). Whew! But as first nights go… it was good! I’m eager to hear feedback on what the volunteers think of the changes this year and to hear how the kids are responding.
I am wiped out (pun intented) so you’ll have to wait until tomorrow for pics of our Island.
If you’re smart enough to write malicious software then GO GET A JOB that helps out humanity. When hackers are caught they should be forced to do hard, manual labor… like whatever the dirtiest job is that Mike Rowe has had to do. And they should have to do it with one hand while blindfolded and taunted by victims of their abuse. Yes. That would be a good start.
Bitter much? No, not me. I was merely digitally scrapbooking when I decided that I need a good quote about love to add to my project. I googled “love poems” and a site called poetry (dot) come came back with some good bits. I was doomed the moment I clicked over. BAM! BAM! BAM AGAIN! I instantly had trojans all over my computer despite my anti-virus protection software. The trojans hijacked my screensaver, my desktop, my desktop properties and a number of other annoying things.
It took two additional anti-virus products to find everything. Plus I found two excellent step-by-step sites that walked me through finding and removing the last of it myself. After two days of hair pulling and cursing I finally have my smiling babies back on my desktop and no more crawling black bugs and blue screen announcing “You have a virus! Install an anti-virus program now!”
It really upset me how easily these three trojans slipped in. I am very careful about not downloading anything from random sites. I don’t visit sketchy sites and I made sure I had (what I thought was adequate) protection software.
I had no idea that poetry could be so dangerous. No wonder why I’m not a huge fan!
