Happy Fall, everyone! I hope yours has started out well. Mine started with a day at Laguna Beach, studying tide pools with the girls and our Girl Scout friends. Unfortunately the first day of Autumn for me included my first ever bee sting. :-( Other than that, it was a beautiful day!
I still am not quite used to SoCal "Fall." There are very few deciduous trees right around us, and they don't show their color until January! Palm trees have their own beauty, but I miss my Maples. In the mountains there are places we can go in the next month or so that will have color similar to what I enjoyed growing up in MI. My ideal family outing in Autumn consists of getting cider and doughnuts, picking pumpkins, going on a hayride, and enjoying a bonfire during the crisp, cool evening. Some of those things can't happen here either because of their not existing or the danger that they would cause. Just the other day we were up in the San Bernardino Mtns., and the fire danger sign read "High." I will look into how to have a fun, family day here this season and see how many of my ideal elements of Fall can be experienced. Thankfully I have wonderful memories of MI. I can see the blazing colors in my mind (and in pictures we have), almost smell the leaves and/or wood burning, and pretend to feel the chill in the air (instead of 90+ degrees). Kris thinks I'm trying to recreate those MI temps in our house. Ha ha I don't think setting the air on 74 degrees is too low though, and he thinks 76 (or even 77) would be great, but we've compromised at 75. Anyway, I'm going to get out our Fall decorations in the next day or so and plan for some seasonal foods.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Hello out there!
Did your RSS Feeder just go into shock upon seeing I have a blog post? :-) I was encouraged by a friend this morning to get back on and post something. After a real pain of trying to figure out how to do a new layout, I am able to post. Last time I wrote, I described "a whirlwind of a month" we had been having. I feel that I can describe the last SEVERAL months as being a bit of a whirlwind. . .Hah--even the last year! I can hardly believe that it is even possibly the middle of September! Here are some things that have happened since I last posted:
-We moved into our new house June 1.
-The unpacking and setting up of the house began (and is still going on).
-My aunt and uncle came out to SoCal for a conference, and we were able to spend time off and on with them for a few days in June.
-I had changed us over to "year round" schooling, so we worked on school for a couple of weeks.
-Emma went to summer camp in the desert and had a blast the last week of June/beginning of July.
-We went on an amazing vacation to MI for almost 2 1/2 weeks in July.
-Came home from MI, and we worked on another week of school.
-First week of August we enjoyed having friends from SC, the Thompson family, come out to help our church with canvasing the area.
-We finished our school year by the middle of August and took a little break.
-Last week we started our new school year. I have a 5th grader and a 2nd grader this year--WOW!
I'm obviously skipping many other details, but life is moving right along, and as always, our God is good through every bit of it. We've seen real challenges from vehicle problems this summer to saying "goodbye" to four core people at our church who moved East, and all the while we have experienced God's grace given for those things. We have known several blessings such as finding the house, spending time with family and friends we love that live so far away, ministry opportunities with people God has brought into our lives, as well as our own family being ministered to by loving people here.
Lately a theme has come up "coincidentally" (yeah, right) in several places (girls' SS lessons, Bible lesson for school, Scripture reading Sun. morning in the service), and that is the steadfast love of our God. I've been greatly encouraged by meditating on this truth recently. I would encourage you to sit and read Psalm 103 when you get a chance. We have a great God!
Until next time, whenever that may be. . . . :-)
-We moved into our new house June 1.
-The unpacking and setting up of the house began (and is still going on).
-My aunt and uncle came out to SoCal for a conference, and we were able to spend time off and on with them for a few days in June.
-I had changed us over to "year round" schooling, so we worked on school for a couple of weeks.
-Emma went to summer camp in the desert and had a blast the last week of June/beginning of July.
-We went on an amazing vacation to MI for almost 2 1/2 weeks in July.
-Came home from MI, and we worked on another week of school.
-First week of August we enjoyed having friends from SC, the Thompson family, come out to help our church with canvasing the area.
-We finished our school year by the middle of August and took a little break.
-Last week we started our new school year. I have a 5th grader and a 2nd grader this year--WOW!
I'm obviously skipping many other details, but life is moving right along, and as always, our God is good through every bit of it. We've seen real challenges from vehicle problems this summer to saying "goodbye" to four core people at our church who moved East, and all the while we have experienced God's grace given for those things. We have known several blessings such as finding the house, spending time with family and friends we love that live so far away, ministry opportunities with people God has brought into our lives, as well as our own family being ministered to by loving people here.
Lately a theme has come up "coincidentally" (yeah, right) in several places (girls' SS lessons, Bible lesson for school, Scripture reading Sun. morning in the service), and that is the steadfast love of our God. I've been greatly encouraged by meditating on this truth recently. I would encourage you to sit and read Psalm 103 when you get a chance. We have a great God!
Until next time, whenever that may be. . . . :-)
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