Friday, December 7, 2007

Thanksgiving in the Mountains

Every other year for most of my life (since 1987) my dad's side of the family has gone to Gatlinburg for Thanksgiving. We rent a chalet in the mountains and just have a great time being family. With the very late fall, this was the first time we still had colorful leaves on Thanksgiving. It was a great trip. My aunt was kind enough to send me some pics, so I can now update the blog with pictures.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Update

Well, we have had no luck finding the camera, but I haven't been to church to try to look myself yet. Potty training is getting better each day. She actually told us she needed to go the other night at the store, and waited until we could get there.



Anna Kate's sleeping is back to craziness. With me getting mastitis twice in the last three weeks and all the company and traveling we've been doing, she just can't get on track. We may have another session of sleep training "boot camp" this week.



The best news in our family right now is that Tim finished seminary last week for all intents and purposes(though not technically) . He has two hours to complete his degree. We will be taking a marriage enrichment class together in the spring to fulfill that-it doesn't really have much if any work along with it though, so that's why we're saying he's done. We're done with the stress of trying to find time to study, go to class, in the midst of everything else in life. He will walk for graduation in May. So everything is in limbo it seems with lots of our future being totally uncertain to us. At the same time, life seems a lot the same. We know nothing is uncertain for God, so we are both pretty well at peace with that. We're just praying that we will be open to His leading and wisdom for all the upcoming decisions. For all of our married life we've just been waiting and working to get to this point, and now we're here and still don't seem to know quite what to do with ourselves :)

If you think of us, please say a prayer for wisdom and faith. We have two totally different "doors" of opportunity in front of us. One is related to church planting, a scary but thrilling possibility. The other is a possible opening into the IT field. We have no idea where God is leading, but lots of decisions will need to be made soon. Coming from a person whose faith seems to always be lacking, especially when it comes to major change, I realize my need for God every second these days.