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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 12/9/2006 10:33:05 AM
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Last night was the opening night of our play. I was pleased with it, overall, although we did have a few glitches. The microphones had their issues, some feedback now and then, and one of them broke in the middle of the play. I lost the clip to mine and had to use a bobby pin to hang it on my clothes through three-quarters of the play.
We also had a glitch with one of the sound effects. It's on the moonlight path, when George and Mary are throwing rocks and the old Granville house. George picked up his "rock" and threw it, and...nothing. No sound effect. So he said, "Well, I guess I must have missed. Let me try that again." He picked up and threw another rock, and again no sound effect. He said, "Let me try again, I must have missed again. I guess I'm not very good at this!" and he threw again. Still no sound effect. At that point he gave up and said, "I think I might have chipped it."
We continued with the dialogue from there, and then it was my turn to throw a rock. At that point I had no idea what was going to happen if I pretended to throw my rock, or what I would say if nothing happened, but I threw it anyway. CRASH! The sound effect was perfect. George turned to me and said, "Wow! Good shot!"  It was funny, even it didn't exactly happen the way it should have.
I don't think anything else really went wrong with the play, except for small things. My sister tell me she could hear some people whispering backstage a couple of times because they didn't mute their mics when they were done, and I didn't get my sleeves buttoned up in time for one scene and I was trying to discreetely button them onstage. I don't think anyone noticed that one, though.
Oh, and another thing that happened wrong was that my husband (Potter's Goon--the guy who pushes the wheelchair) didn't get his make-up done in time and missed the first scene. Potter just wheeled himself out there. The make-up ladies were very apologetic. 
Overall, it went great. I remembered all my lines! There was one duet with George that I was exceptionally happy with, because we had never done it right all the way through before last night. Uncle Billy was hysterically funny. We had Clarence the angel fly down from the sound booth suspended from a cable at the end (after he gets his wings) and the audience loved it. The kids all did a good job, too. It was fun, even though I'm starting to get tired after practices every night since Monday. We have two nights to go. We had nearly a full house last night---I'm not entirely sure how many tickets they had available for each night, but we could have only fit in about five more from what they said.
They forgot to put me in the program, though. I guess they did in a hurry. Everyone else was in it, even Erick (although they spelled his last name wrong!) I told Erick I should tell them that they'd better fix it or I won't be in it tonight. That would be funny. Oh well, I don't really care all that much. I'm just happy to be the play itself, let alone the program.
My sister took a bunch of pictures, but I guess the auto-focus wasn't on, so the pictures didn't turn out very good. They are very blurry. Some of them look like pieces of impressionist art work. Oh well, I'll try and get some better ones if I can find someone willing to take them. I'm sure other people will be getting pictures, too. I want to get some up here if I can. I've got a couple from last night that are so-so that I'll use if I don't get any better ones.
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 12/10/2006 1:06:36 PM
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Last night was night two of our play. Two down, one to go! It went well. Some scenes went better than the first night, and some of them weren't quite as good. Erick took some pictures but I haven't taken them off my camera yet. We have only a couple of hours at home before we have to leave again for the next performance, and we need to get our Christmas tree up this afternoon, and it's Rachel's 4th birthday today, too. So no time for uploading pictures today!
Erick got his make-up on time last night, so that was better. We had quite a bit of trouble with microphones. Mine was pretty well behaved most of the time, although it was too quiet for one song. I don't know why--it was on and it was not muted. I still had to use a bobby pin to use it on because they never found the mic clip. Two of the other mics broke, and the Christmas Eve scene with the children didn't work too well because two of the kids didn't have mics. I just leaned really close to them during their parts in the song so their voices would pick up in my mic, and it worked okay but it was still hard to hear them.
As for the moonlight path scene--the sound people sabatoged us! The night before (when the glass didn't break) they said it was a technical glitch. One of the sound people said he was praying, "God, if you have any sense of humor, let it break when she throws the rock!" They assured us that it was working fine today, but when George went to throw his rock, instead of a pane of glass shattering, we heard this horrible cross between a shriek and wail. I was taken completely by surprise. I just stood there with my mouth hanging open, trying to figure out what to do next. The audience was laughing--they thought it was great. We finally regained our composure and he ad libbed something about a cat being in there, and we went on. They'd better let us do it right tonight! We need at least one good take for the DVD! It was funny, though.
The audience loved it. I think they liked it better last night than they did on Friday. One more to go, if I can keep up the energy!
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 12/11/2006 8:30:29 AM
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Last night was the last night of the play. Before the play, I asked one of the guys who runs the sound if they were going to be pulling any pranks with the sound, and he assured me that although they were going to pull one on somebody, it wasn't going to be me. Another girl who works with the sound told me that that wasn't entirely true--they were planning on doing something again with the moonlit path, but it wasn't going to be a big deal. They were just planning on having it not break the first time, and that I should encourage George to throw the rock again because it will break the second time he throws it.
We got up there to do that part, and George threw the rock. Again, we heard the cat wail. I was glad I was at least somewhat prepared this time, so I wasn't completely taken off guard, but I did distinctly remember the sound man saying they weren't going to do the cat sound on us again. I just shook my head and grinned, and George said, "Oh, I must have hit the cat." He picked up a second rock and threw it. A man's voice said, "Hey you guys! Stop throwing rocks at my window!" Okay, that caught me off guard a little, but I still wasn't completely surprised. I said, "I don't know if you should throw any more rocks, George!" "
"One more time!" said George. He reached down to pick up the rock...and the glass broke. He hadn't even thrown it yet. He looked up in surprise, and I said incredulously, "How did you do that?" He just shook his head and said, "I don't know!" Then I modified my next line a bit and said, "So, what'd you wish for, anyway?"
Then after his lines, I went to throw my rock, and just like the last two nights my glass broke right away. I turned to him, smiled, and said, "That's the way you are supposed to do it."
Afterwards, I tracked down that sound man and said, "you LIED to me!" He said, "It wasn't me, it was (the director)!" I didn't believe a word of it, but I went and asked her anyway, and she said that the others had it all planned out, she just modified it a bit. It was her idea to have the glass break as he was picking up the rock, but the rest of it she swears wasn't her idea. I believe her--after all, she's the pastor's wife and I'm sure she doesn't lie.  The sound guy says that he felt really bad because after he told me that they weren't going to pull anything on me, the other girl in the sound booth came in and said that the director wanted them to mess up the sound effects. My guess is she's the one who was at the root of all of it. 
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 12/16/2006 8:27:05 AM
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Yesterday was my turn to host our homeschool group co-op activity. We are in the Love/Generosity unit now in Konos, and it worked out great because we are studying Christmas now. We had a Christmas party at our house yesterday. We started out with a gift exchange. Each child had made a present for another child whose name they drew at the Thanksgiving play a couple of weeks ago. The requirement was that each gift had to be homemade. Some of the presents were really creative, and some were really simple, but they were all hand-crafted. They ranged from homemade finger puppets to a jar of pretzels. The jar of pretzels was from Timothy. He's only two, and isn't that crafty yet, but he did put all the pretzels into the jar by himself. After that we had a potluck and we got to eat all the goodies that the kids had helped make all week--fudge, chex mix, hot cocoa mix, etc, as well as real food like meatloaf and mashed potatoes. There was so much food! I ate more than I needed to.
After dinner, the kids put on a live nativity. We live right by a highway, so we set up a stable by the road and the kids took turns being Mary, Joseph, angels, shepherds, and wise men. People driving by honked and waved, and one car even stopped to take pictures. It was even nice weather for December--temperatures in the 50's. We couldn't have asked for nicer weather.
Here is the entire nativity cast:
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 12/18/2006 8:48:21 AM
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Last night we finished the first round of Financial Peace University as coordinators. We had ten in our class that graduated. I was a little disappointed at first that only ten of them were able to get certificates, but I didn't feel too bad after counting them up and found that we had two more graduates than the Pastor's class. It's easy to feel like it was our fault that not everyone showed up enough to earn their certificate, that maybe we weren't doing a good enough job at leading it. After all, this was our first real time of teaching a Sunday School class for any real length of time. Erick taught for five or six weeks in Springfield as a fill-in between teachers, but this was the first time of doing it "for real". We really enjoyed the last few months of teaching this class. It's been exciting to see people's lives change. We didn't get a good count of debt paid off yet during the course, but we did add up the other stats and we had over 30 credit cards off and over $15,000 put into savings as an entire group (Pastor's class and our class put together.) Each of us also had at least one couple in our class express interest in becoming FPU coordinators.
Erick and I are going to lead the class again starting in January. We are also going to be training up the future coordinators of the class, and in the fall they are going to lead the class. The pastor wants Erick to lead a Bible study and get experience in other areas of the church.
I'm also going to be helping plan an adoption shower for our pastor and his wife, as they are adopting four children. I'm excited for them! At one point they were rejected and the children were given to another family, but God was still working. There have been so many things along the way that have been too coincidental to not be God. When we heard that they had been rejected, we all just felt in our hearts that things weren't over. At the last minute, the other family backed out. Pastor and his family will be doubling the size of their family all at once! They will have children the same ages of ours, now. I'm so thrilled for them. They are going to need so much help. I'm sure they don't really know what they are in for! LOL! Some of the other ladies and I decided to give them an adoption shower. They are going to be a tremendous blessing to these children, and we want to bless them for that.
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 12/22/2006 9:49:36 AM
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I'm a frugal person. I don't like to waste anything, especially hot water. Since we don't have a shower at this house, we have to take baths. Sometimes I get funny looks when I tell people I haven't showered since May. Anyway, when I fill the bathtub each day with hot water, I make sure to get as much use out of it as I can. I don't want to let all that nice, hot water run down the drain, so I make sure to stay in that bathtub and soak until the water is no longer hot.
While I'm in the bathtub soaking, I sometimes pass the time by reading the backs of shampoo bottles. My husband and I use different kinds of shampoo. After all, he's a man and I'm a woman. We are different. Our hair is different. Our hair has different needs. My hair needs the kind of shampoo that has words like "luxurious" and silky" on the back. His hair doesn't. Men don't like their hair being luxurious and silky. His shampoo doesn't have words like that. In fact, I was reading his the other day, and it had a special box that said, "Tool Tip" by it. It was something about using their brand of sports gel as well as their brand of shampoo. I had to laugh. Since when is shampoo a tool? Well, men like tools, so you have to call shampoo a "tool" to get men to buy it, I guess.
I have another brand of shampoo that claims to be "fruit activated". What does that mean? Did the shampoo not really work before, was it sort of an inactive, watery solution that didn't lather up and didn't clean hair, and then someone inserted an apple in just the right place and *BAM* it became active and now it's shampoo? And what's the deal with shampoo bottles saying they leave your hair "healthy-looking"? It only looks healthy? Is it really sick and dying, but by golly, it looks like it's in good shape!? I have one bottle of shampoo right now in my bathtub that says it "maximizes body and volume." Does that mean it makes me fat and loud? What if I were to invent a shampoo and all it said on the side was, "It cleans your hair." Would anyone buy it if that was all it did? What, it doesn't do anything else? It doesn't maximize anything? It doesn't wake up my senses with it's energizing, citrus scent? It doesn't leave my hair feeling like pure silk or infuse it with protein? It just cleans it? What a rip-off!
I was thinking this morning as I was enjoying my bath and reading the instructions on the shampoo bottle. Yes, I read the instructions! I'm not only frugal, I'm practical! The bottle said, "Directons: Wet hair, lather and rinse thoroughly. Repeat as desired." I was thinking, I wonder what the bottle would say if Eugene Peterson (author of "The Message") were to write the directions? Probably something like this "Directions: Get your hair wet. Put some shampoo on it. Lather it up real good and then rinse it all out. Do it again as many times as you want to." I think the current ones sound a little NIVish, myself.
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 12/29/2006 8:51:56 AM
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Well, Christmas is over for another year. We had a good Christmas overall, although it was overshadowed by septic problems. We've had so much rain lately that the drains don't want to go down. They are finally starting to get better today. We are really praying for no rain, but I think we're supposed to get more this weekend. It's just awful. We were thankful that at least on the worst days of it, we were at our parents' houses for most of the day.
On Christmas Eve we went to church in the morning, and then made cheese crackers in the afternoon and watched "A Christmas Story." I had heard from a lot of people how funny it was, but I was disappointed that there was so much language in it. I had wondered why there was a Christmas classic out there that I had never seen, now I know why I had never seen it.
We put the kids in bed early that night, at 6:45. It was dark and they didn't realize it was that early! Timothy wasn't fooled, though. He stayed up until 9:00 and helped us stuff Christmas stockings. He sampled everything we put in them.
Christmas morning we woke the kids up at about 5:00. We had our presents open before 7:00. We went to my parents' house at 11:00 and stayed there until 4:30. My mom made razzlebery dressing. I don't know what all was in it, but I do know it had raspberries and meat in it. I didn't try any. My sister did, and she said it was gross. I figured if I didn't try it I didn't have to tell Mom it was gross! Everything else she made was good, though. Especially the lemon merangue pie. We did the gift exchange, and I got a pair of slippers from Rachel, which was exactly what I wanted. Of course, I whispered in her ear before she went shopping with Daddy, "Make sure to buy me some slippers!"
That evening we went to Erick's maternal grandparents' house and ate. She's the one who is such a wonderful cook. All the kids got various games like "Hangman" and "Connect Four". They will enjoy those. We also visited with his great-grandmother, who is 95 now. She is still very sharp mentally, but physically is becoming weaker than ever. She said she doesn't think she'll live to see her 96th birthday.
On the day after Christmas, Erick brought home a table from someone at church who was moving and needed to get rid of it. It's a really nice table, and all of our chairs actually fit under it! It's solid wood. It looks so nice in the kitchen. The one we had was one that belonged to the owner's of the house before they left, and it was in bad shape. The one we used to have we had put in the garage and it mildewed. So we're happy to have a good, solid table! (Now, if only I had matching chairs!)
That afternoon we went to see Erick's paternal grandmother, and also his uncle from Californial who was out visiting, and then we went to his parents' church. The family is so big now on that side that his mother felt it would be best just to reserve the church for the family Christmas party. There was so much food, and I overate. We took a lot of pictures. Erick took some, too. He took a bunch of me eating pistachio pudding, for some reason. I laughed when I was going through them, at how many pictures there were with me somewhere in the picture eating pudding with an expression on my face that said, "I have already eaten too much pudding. Why am I still eating this?"
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 1/1/2007 9:35:12 AM
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Our drains had finally started to work properly, and then we got a bunch more rain Saturday night and yesterdsay, and now it's snowing. So they are backed up again. We are going to borrow a port-a-pot from Erick's parents and try to put in as little additional water as possible into the drains. The man who owns the house, Jose, came by Saturday. Things were working that day, but we asked him about the problem and he said it does that when we get a lot of rain here. He had the tank pumped out a couple of years ago and it didn't help--as soon as it filled up with water, it was doing it again. There really isn't much of a septic system here. There's no finger system--just a tank and a pipe. We are in a low spot in town anyway. We have a huge puddle out back. We are praying for the weather to dry up.
We were asking him whether or not they were going to be moving back this spring or not, and he started talking about taking care of his mother-in-law. I'm not entirely sure what that had to do with it, except that I think his wife is sending money to Mexico to take care of her mother. It sounds like they cannot move back here. They are talking about going back to Mexico. If they do, they will probably abandon this house altogether, unless they could sell it for some fast cash. I have a feeling it will be abandoned if Erick and I leave it, which would be a waste. We've put a lot of work into it. Even if it just sits empty for awhile, it's not going to be a good thing, because someone needs to keep the electric on to keep the sump pump working in the basement. Water is coming into that basement so fast it wouldn't take long to fill up. The sump pump kicks on every minute or so now.
Jose kept telling us, "Don't worry. Just relax. God is good. He has a plan for you. He will provide for you. Who knows, someone may just give you a house!" I couldn't help but wonder if Jose is planning on just letting us have it. The way the septic system is acting, I don't know if that would be a good thing or not! It will be a moot point in about six years, though. They are going to be putting our town on a sewer system. We could purchase the property next to us that's for sale, which is an empty lot, and put in a real septic system. That would cost about $15,000. That would be cheaper than buying a place. I wouldn't want to just take the house for free, though. If they give us a house, we'll give them some money. It won't be what the place is worth, because we wouldn't have enough for that, but it would be more than if they were to just abandon it.
Of course, these are all just thoughts. Who knows what will happen? Only God knows. We can speculate and wonder, but He is the one that opens and closes doors. If God wants to just give us a house, He's big enough to take care of septic problems. If God wants to move us on the somewhere else, He'll let us know that, too. We don't have to know all the answers--we just need to trust God and do what He tells us. Right now we're still waiting. That's the last word we heard from Him.
Sometimes it's difficult to not have a five-year plan, because other people want to know what our plans are. It sounds terribly irresponsible to just say, "I don't know--we're waiting on God to tell us." Sometimes I don't know how to answer those questions. God will let us know in His own time, though.
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 1/7/2007 4:00:05 PM
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Yesterday was Erick's 29th birthday. His parents watched the kids and we had a date. We went looking at a house we'd seen advertised. It was small, but it was cheap and it had an acre of land and was on the river, and we thought maybe we could build on. It was on the high bank of the river, and the acre of land dropped off at a very steep acre behind it, all the way to the river. I don't think that's going to happen!
We then went and saw the old Groniger's Grocery store that used to be in our town. It was built in the late 1800's and closed in the 1950's when the owner died. It was closed up and everything was still in it until a man bought it and moved it to another town about an hour away. He put the merchandise back on the shelves and he let's people come see it at no charge. He was a friend of my dad's, too, so he had a lot of old memories to swap from when my dad was an antique dealer. It was so neat to see the store, just like it used to be when it was in business. The owner and his wife are parents of quadruplets. They waited twenty years to have children, and then had four at once. I couldn't imagine what that would be like!
We also went to Indianapolis and wandered around downtown. Erick's sister and her husband live in Indy, and they agreed to tape the Colts game for Erick. I would have let Erick buy tickets to the game, but he didn't want to spend the money. We could hear the crowd from the outside as we passed by the RCA dome. We went to the Circle City mall, and ate at the food court there, and went to the Circle there in the middle of the town and walked around. It was really pretty. It sure is different to what we are used to. People just walk in front of you while you are driving, like they are confident no one is going to run them over. It's a different culture, the city.
We didn't get the kids until church this morning. It was kind of weird sleeping in a house with no children, and not getting them ready for church in the morning. We still barely got to church on time. Erick got up early to watch his Colts game, and made breakfast, and got his presentation ready for the FPU class, etc. Five minutes before we were supposed to leave he still wasn't dressed. He tosses a shirt to me and says, "Can you iron this for me?" "NO!" I said, "We need to leave!" So he put something else on, and couldn't find the right shoes. He finally had to wear his brown shoes with his black suit, because his brown pants were in the laundry and he couldn't find his black shoes.
We ate at his parents house when we picked up the kids. They had a lot of fun there. Tim didn't even want to go home! They got a horse yesterday, so they were all excited about that. They thought it was fun being in Grandma's Sunday School class.
Erick's sister is due today. She's supposed to be having a boy. I hope she has that baby soon!
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 1/17/2007 5:57:54 PM
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Friday night was our homeschool talent show. It's been a long time since I've been to one! It was odd not being one of the acts. We had twelve acts, and four of them were violin solos. When I was being homeschooled, it seemed that piano was the homeschool instrument of choice, but now violin has emerged at the top of the list.
We had a good variety of acts. There was a drum solo, two piano solos, a short skit, a song, the aforementioned violin solos, a funny story, a dance, and a collection of poetry. My kids did the dance, and it got the best response of the night. I was so proud of them. They did a Jewish circle dance, and my mom said it made her cry.
That evening my sister-in-law went into labor. Her water actually broke at the talent show, but I didn't know that at the time. Her baby was born the next evening. I have a new nephew! We went and saw him last night finally, but I forgot to take my camera. Erick had been in a minor accident on the way home (he wasn't hurt) and it set us back quite a bit, so our evening was rather crazy.
I haven't posted as much lately as I normally do because I've been incredibly busy on various craft projects. I've been sewing curtains for the windows, making a quilt for our pastor and his wife and the children they are adopting to hang on the wall (the quilt, not the children) and knitting a scarf for my grandmother.
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 1/19/2007 2:21:49 PM
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Lisa Pressurewasher * brought an interesting fact to my attention: If you Google her name, you find her name in my blog. She and I both agreed that was a scary thought. I was trying to figure out how I could write Lisa Pencilhead * without revealing her true name, and I had thought of writing a P followed by several asterisks, but I didn't want anyone thinking her last name was something bad.
Today Lisa Pinkbubbles * called me up and told me that it bothered her that I had a perfectly clean record on Crosswalk--that no one had ever filed a report on me. Lisa Perpetrator * told me she was planning on reporting me to purposely damage my perfectly clean record on the basis that I was giving out third party information in violation of the Terms of Service. So I decided to come here before she could do her dastardly deeds and remove any references to Lisa Popcorn * that I might have made in my blog.
*name changed to protect the innocent
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RE: My First Blog (by Lisa Luper) - 1/25/2007 9:07:03 AM
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I've been just about too busy to post this last week! Last Saturday we had the spelling bee for the homeschool group. My mom had told the kids involved that the younger kids only needed to concentrate on the middle section of the book, so they studied from that section. The lady my mom asked to be the pronouncer didn't read the e-mail all the way through and didn't catch that tidbit of information, and asked questions from all over the book. Out of twenty words she asked, only three of them were words the kids had studies. The poor kids were in tears. Both Jay and Joy got four words right each, and the winner only got eight right. Afterwards we decided to have a spelldown with just the middle section of the book so the kids could actually have a chance to spell the words they'd studied, and they both enjoyed that. The kid who won the first time won the second time as well, but they were happy just to get a chance to show what they've learned.
On Sunday, we had the adoption shower for our pastor and his wife. It went really well. At first, I was a little nervous because it looked like out of four people that were supposed to be putting this on, only me and one other lady were going to be doing most of the work. The third dropped off some cupcakes and centerpieces and confetti, and told me she wasn't going to be able to stay, and and the fourth never showed up at all. But I had another lady who wasn't signed up to help who at the last minute asked if I needed any, and I took her up on that. She went and got balloons and streamers and decorated everything. It was beautiful!
I was in charge of the entertainment. One of the games I did was to have our pastor and his wife come up and have a race to see which one could make six peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and put them in little baggies the first. It was so much fun. The pastor wasn't spreading his jelly out, so he was the fastest. I awarded him with a Certificate of Achievement and the title of Official Sandwich Maker and Lunch Packer. The pastor's wife was actually pouring the jelly from the jar onto her sandwiches, and those sandwiches were so messy and sticky it was pathetic!
The funniest part was that before the game I got up, casually holding a measuring tape in my hand. I asked the audience how many had every been to one of those baby showers where they played the game where you measure the mother's tummy and everyone guesses how big it is. After I got everyone believing that we were going to be playing that game, I said, "Does everyone remember how that game is played? Good, because we aren't going to play it." It was so funny, especially the look on the pastor's wife's face.
Yesterday, Erick went in for his interview to get his ministerial license, and I went with him. It went well, although it took a lot longer than I thought it would. I've never been for an interview that lasted two hours! He was a really neat guy, and I enjoyed talking to him. He used to go to the same church we went to in Missouri, about sixteen years ago, so he knew a lot of the same people we did. He also went to CBC and even taught there for awhile.
So that's the rundown on what we've been doing lately. Oh, and I also have found another forum that is only for homeschool graduates. So I've been posting on it a little bit, not much though. I wouldn't leave here and I don't have enough time for two forums. I barely have enough time for one! We've also been working on finishing up the kitchen. We're doing the cabinets now, painting them white. They are going to be so pretty when we are done with them!
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blog - 2/16/2007 8:44:49 AM
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Goodness, it's been awhile since I've posted! Well, Erick did pass his test that I mentioned--it took 6 hours, all essay questions, and he scored 99 percent on it! I'm so proud of him!
Lately he's been trying to just get a job. We haven't made hardly any money this month. He did make some this last week, working on busted plumbing. The winter weather had frozen some pipes at church and the pipes broke, so he had to fix that. He's applied several places, including the hog plant. I don't care what he does, we just need to get an income coming in!
In other news, my other sister-in-law (another sister of Erick's) is pregnant. She posts here under the handle theColonelswife. She's due in September. I'm so excited! Another neice or nephew!
My brother also proposed to his girlfriend a couple of days ago, on Valentine's Day, and she accepted. We're excited about that, too. They are wanting to get married in about a year, but have not officially set a date yet.
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RE: blog - 2/20/2007 6:06:02 PM
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Well, God answers prayer! Just about the time I was starting to think maybe God didn't want Erick to get a job, he gets one. I'll never figure God out, I don't think.
Anyway, yesterday Erick was at church working on fixing a leak from all the snow we've had lately. There is a flat metal roof over the foyer, and ice had backed up in the gutters and downspouts, and there was two feet of snow on the roof. The snow was melting and the water couldn't go down the gutters, so it was finding it's way inside and had completely ruined the ceiling tiles. Anyway, he was talking to the children's pastor about all the trouble he's had trying to get a job. He was getting discouraged because no one had called back, and even the hog plant didn't have any positions open. The pastor prayed with him, and then said, "Erick, when you get home today there's going to be a phone call waiting for you about a job."
Now, I've heard people say things like that before, and more often than not it doesn't come true. I know some people that think if you say it and believe it God's gotta do it. This pastor isn't that kind, and that's not what he was doing. I believe God gave him a true word of knowledge.
A couple of hours later, at home, Wal-Mart called. I took a message--they wanted to interview Erick for a job. I called the church and left a message for Erick to call me. When he did, he didn't tell me right away what the children's pastor had said. He waited until he came home to tell me.
He went to his interview at Wal-Mart today, and they said if he passes the urine test and the background check he's got a job. He will be working in the Automotive Department as a service technician, doing things like changing oil and replacing windshield wipers. He starts at $9.00 an hour. We're so excited! It will be nice to be making a consistent income for a change. Praise God for His provision!
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RE: blog - 2/26/2007 9:00:41 AM
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Saturday night we played Monopoly with the kids. Jay won--he just creamed us! I was the first one out the game, and Erick was next. Sarah came in second and Joy came in third. Erick landed on income tax for his first turn. It's a little humbling, being soundly beated by your children. Erick said it felt too much like real life. On the postive side, if it was a reflection of real life, then our children are going to do much better than we ever have!
Abby was so excited about watching the game, even if she wasn't big enough to play yet. I had put her and Rachel in the bathtub and then I went to clean up supper before we started Monopoly. Then I went back in to wash the girls, and Abby was already out and halfway dressed. She was afraid we'd start without her, I guess. I said, "Why are you out of the tub? Did you wash?"
"Um, well, a little," she replied. I noticed her hair was partly wet, but still mostly dry.
"You didn't get your hair washed," I observed.
"Well, but.." she sighed. "Isn't that okay?"
"I guess," I conceded reluctantly. "Just finish getting dressed."
Sarah had also come into the bathroom, and she said to Abby, "Did you even dry off?"
"I was going to do that next," Abby replied.
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RE: blog - 3/10/2007 12:20:57 PM
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Joy, Sarah, and Abby went to a Missionette's Sleepover last night with 23 other girls from our church. They all drove up to another church and I'm not sure how many churches were involved altogether, but there were a lot of girls there. They had a lot of fun, but it was weird last night not having them at home. I don't sleep as well when some of the kids are gone. Erick was back really late from work, too, so I had to go to bed by myself. Even Jay was out late--he was at my parents' watching a movie.
We've been having some beautiful weather the last couple of days. Yesterday it hit 61 degrees! The only problem we've been having is all the huge piles of snow have been melting, and our backyard pond is back and worse than ever. Despite having had our septic system pumped not long ago, things are all backed up again. The ground is so saturated and there is no place for the water to go. If the sun keeps up, and it doesn't rain in the meantime, surely, surely the water will go down!
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The boss was able to fix his mistake, but Erick felt quite sheepish about it.