tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346344662576813552011-11-27T18:14:26.847-06:009hammyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03722041283464075099noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634634466257681355.post-7952941498185691472009-08-28T07:06:00.004-05:002009-08-28T07:41:02.980-05:00

So what could be better than finding that I have a SPOT of wi-fi coverage and it happens to be in the bedroom that overlooks the marina, with the palm trees waving at me and the morning sun streaming in with the sliding glass windows that slide ALL the way open so that I get the breeze off the water and can even hear the fish jumping???  Well, maybe the only thing that tops that is the $21 sunset

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So after trying to manage the summer activities by planning out daily excursions for the TLK's (three little kids) which worked great for about two weeks, I gave up and decided to go with the flow of uh, the Spirit, or was it the hubs, or was it the reality of summer ministry??  Either way, it became apparent that we needed to serve all our missions teams their evening meals from our house as

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I really have nothing to say tonight.  I was getting bored of the last one.  I always wonder what makes people feel like writing alot or alittle.  Some people blog several times a day.  Others not for months.  Anyway, I am following Stellan's SVT drama, and praying once again that God would preserve his life.  I now have my first High school graduate.  Not even sure what to think of that. We are

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Yep!!  There I was at a table of debate moms from my kid's club.  I was thankful that they had invited me to sit down.  Until then I had not been very welcomed. Mind you, I had driven to Naperville each Tuesday night and spent three hours at a time, I had spent 8 of the most intense days, sun-up to sun-down with them over the course of the tournament season, and yet, very few of them had given me

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I noticed the other day that some of you are still checking from time to time for a new posting.  Thanks for wondering what I might have to say!  I don't have anything profound.  I just have topics that keep recurring.  So, here are a few things that are on my mind.The ELECTION.Who doesn't have this on their mind.  What I can't get over is the vast chasm of feeling between white evangelicals and

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Wow, my first blog was a year ago in Florida at the ocean with God wooing me.  Well here I am again, in Florida, and He is doing it again. I am swept off my feet by a God who loves me and creates ways to show me that He knows my inmost being and can romance me to my core.  I am amazed at how he is faithful to me even when I am not faithful to Him.For all my machinations to create a vacation that

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So I am a few weeks late, but I wanted to share how precious Caden is on his 4th birthday.  For his special day he wanted cake, streamers, balloons and LOTs and Lots of people.  So that is what we did.  He LOVED it.  Caden marks our years in Chicago because he was born at the time we first moved from camp.  SO that means we have been here now for 4 years.  When I think of his first year i think

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So summer is here!  That means a whole new schedule and focus, a new priority and goal.  So I have been trying rather unsuccessfully to get with the program!  I am updating our budget, our clothing selections in our drawers, our food choices, what we do each day, and trying to figure out who is going where, and when they need to get there and if I need to be involved in the process!  No wonder I

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Joel, Dave Clark and I decided to drive down to Georgia for the memorial service of Luke Sponberg.  We had all been grieving with Greg and Nicol all week hoping that if we could bear some of the pain for them it might ease up for them just a little.  The funeral was one of the saddest yet most beautiful, yet most honest that I have ever been to.  The pastor's lament was straight out of the Bible

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I have decided to do a political science unit for the older boys just before the end of the school year. This will include researching what the various candidates stand for and what they would hope to accomplish if elected. It will also include some hands on grassroots door-to-door campaigning for the candidate of my choice; Barack Obama. When I saw the opportunity to canvas in Kentucky I

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What does a mother of 7 want for Mother's day??? A clean house of course! :) SO after being told to stay in my room and "chill" last night, I woke up to a freshly cleaned home, Swedish pancakes, coffee and fresh cut lilacs on a cookie sheet! Thanks Caleb for getting up early, making the pancakes and running out in the rain to get the lilacs!!! Thanks to the rest of you for the CLEAN house.

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I am starting to understand just how wide the racial divide is in the country. Some will say, duh, what took you so long. Others will say, why do you have to keep saying stuff about division?? Isn't that just making it worse?But for real, I am having a hard time putting into words just how wide it is. If you lurk around some of the blogs on the topic or if you read people's comments on various

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SO Jared is 16 today. I can hardly believe it. I am celebrating making it through 16 years of parenting. I am also acknowledging that I am only halfway through my hands-on parenting years! 16 years from now is when we will be graduating our last child from high school!! Kaylie is 2. So 32 years of parenting! I think this will be my greatest contribution in life considering that I will be

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As long as I am on a roll and the kids are at the park with Joel, I want to put out there some of the reasons I love living with Black people. Our premise going into having intentional relationships across racial lines is that we are all part of the same BODY of Christ and that we are not complete if we say to one part of the body that we we don't need them. So since there weren't very many

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I find myself wondering why everyone was so upset by Rev. Wright's message. I feel like we entered some kind of media twilight zone where everyone waited to see what the media would say and then agreed. What exactly did he say that was wrong?? What was untrue?? What was so hard to stomach?? Is white america so blind that it thinks black people are happy with them now?? Do we think that now

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The ocean is so beautiful. The colors so inspired. I can't get enough of looking at it. It is like my children; always changing and yet the same person. I feel like God is romancing me here, coaxing a smile out of me, reminding me that He loves me and has a purpose for me and will have my back. i needed this time away. I think we are about to start anew once again. Everytime we have started

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