Happy Decumary!

Okay - I don't know why I even used that as the title - it's one of my pet peeves - and so is when people say "see you next year!" It's so cheesy!!!!

Anyway, so Christmas was very nice - evidently I was a better girl than I thought I was! We worked out the whole family-visit-logistics nightmare thing, and even found time to spend together as just the four of us! It was very nice to see my cousin again - we've never really been close, but it was great to feel included - even a little bit - with that side of the family.

Well, guess I'll see ya next year! Lol!

Dilemma

Okay, so I guess the GOOD news is that we're being included in a holiday celebration with part of MY family - yeah, I KNOW! But the bad news is working out the whole scheduling thing. Our work schedules and getting with his family just aren't jiving with getting with my family. I guess most couples get all of this ironed out early on in their marriages - not 16 1/2 years in, huh.

Suffice it to say, things are still up in the air, and I'm not seeing a resolution. *sigh*

Just a shame!

I apologize to the two of you who still visit my poor pitiful blog! I've been incredibly remiss, as well as blogging more often at the women's group page I've started - but even that's not very frequently! No excuses - just life...

Anyhoo - I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We did, for the most part. Poor Allen was very ill, so I was afraid I was actually going to have to cook the turkey - and believe me, NO ONE wants that! But, since we smoked the bird, it all worked out - very little bird-sitting. He's feeling much better and has returned to work.

Now the elder boy is once again feeling like he has the stomach flu - sigh - when will this end?! Come on Spring!

We've been studying Robin Jones Gunn's Take Flight in our Tuesday night book group, and it's gone very well, I think. The nicest thing about the book is that each chapter can stand alone as a discussion, so no one has to feel like they have to catch up if they miss a week. It's also great that the topics are varied in how deep they can potentially be. And we've definitely experienced that - lol!

In other news, I'm working on next year's retreat. God has been so good and provided a topic and corresponding verses - LOVE it when that happens! I'm just waiting for a potential speaker to give me an answer, and a Sunday morning communion leader to check her daughter's volleyball schedule to see if she can attend. The menu is planned, the program is designed, the spreadsheets are ready for information...I guess now all I need is a good follow-up to the prayer walk from last year. I'd really like to do something that Brandon Scott Thomas talked about Otter Creek doing a few years back, but I'm not sure about the logistics of asking everyone to stay out of their rooms for as long as necessary.

So that's it...Have a fantastical week! (depending on how long until my next post "a nice month, year, etc...")