Please pray

They have still not signed our papers out of the "extra step" because something was "too old". Please pray.

Nothing new under the moon

We have heard nothing about the adoption process. We have no idea if the papers were received Friday or not. I think it's sort of ironic that my first post this month was titled "Pessimistically optimistic". That was when we were told that the papers for the extra step were finished. Ha! Here we are nearly a month later and still waiting on corrections for those papers. I'm not pessimistically optimistic any more. Now I'm just kind of pessimistic again, or leaning that way. Sigh...pray for us, please.

Some big decisions are going on in our lives and those we love. Keep us in prayer, please.

I'm teaching abstinence again tomorrow. We're covering puberty for 6th grade and STD's for 7th and 8th. Woo hoo. I love it when those classes are over. Pray for me, please?

Stellan ( http://www.mycharmingkids.net/ ) has been released from the Boston hospital. Good for him. Baby Rose Shirley was released from the hospital as there was nothing more they could do for her. Not so good for her. Please pray for both of these babies.

That's a lot of prayer requests. Not exactly what I had intended but that's how it came out.

Friday evening R's bf went outside and stood under the light and this moth landed on his arm.
He kept saying that it was biting him or laying eggs on his arm and I told him that he was going to turn into Mothman, like Spiderman. He was like, oh that would be cool except people would probably touch his wings and knock the dust off and he wouldn't be able to fly. Yeah, whatever.

I feel like I should do a thankful list. I haven't done one in a while. Let's see, I'm still thankful for dark chocolate (have I mentioned that before?). I'm thankful for jobs. All 4 of us have some sort of job and that's very good at this point in time. I'm thankful that we're all relatively healthy. I'm thankful for the weather we've been having. I'm thankful for a hair from J's head that I found this morning embedded in my clothes that I wore while I was in Haiti. It was a little piece of my boy and I was thankful.

Happy Anniversary...

...to us. 22 years. Is that possible? I feel old. We went out to eat and talked all the way there, all the time there, and all the way home. That was nice. Then we came home and entertained my mom's high school friends who are visiting. A bunch of us played guitars, banjo, canjo, dulcimer and keyboard and a bunch of us sang. Misty also got in her stroller and drank from her sippy cup. Most people are quite taken by that one. Also, Happy Birthday to our niece, T, who was born on our wedding day.

Evening walk

We might get the last corrected paper today. They promised it today. I'm not holding my breath.
We can pray though.

Rose Shirley continues to go down hill. She has been in the hospital for over a week now. Stellan (www.mycharmingkids.net ) was easily flipped back into SVT. Keep praying for them too.

It's supposed to be really nice here the next few days. 80's and sunny. We took a walk last night and took the camera with us. Everything is so green right now. This is the beginning of our walk.
Here are the horses a little further down in our walk.

Bridget always has to come and see us and lick our hands and stick her nose in our business. She eats up the attention. She's a hoot.

My horse, Lady. She's not so big on attention. She is very food motivated though.

Some wildflowers.

Tree at the end of the driveway. I think it's a buckeye tree. Or it could be some sort of walnut or hickory.

I love all the different shades of green that you can see right now.

Back up towards the house. Love this pic that T took.

We sat in the gazebo and watched the sun set.
I caught this pic of Sano yesterday morning. I came into the office for something and there she was in my chair all sprawled out and licking her belly. I had to snap a pic and I got so involved with her that I forgot what I came in there for.

She's saying, "What? Doesn't everyone sit like this?"

Back in the saddle

I taught Abstinence today for the first time this school year. It was ... interesting. I really enjoyed my break from doing it. I did enjoy most of the classes today though, too. I taught 5 classes.

Speaking of back in the saddle, Dad fell off his horse twice today. Oops. Was I supposed to tell that, Dad? Apparently his horse took a quick jump over a creek which ended in a quick stop on the other side. He wasn't prepared for the quick stop so he kept going. He did stop quickly when he hit the ground though. I'm not sure what happened the second time.

Haven't heard anything new on the adoption papers. Are you surprised? Sigh...

Prayers

Update; Nephew's girlfriend's surgery went really well and she got great news. Thanks for praying.

Sanomae and I are wearing orange for Stellan today. Well, Sano is always wearing orange as part of her colors. As far as I know Stellan is in surgery right now.

Please also keep Rose Shirley in your prayers as well as my nephew's girlfriend who is having surgery today. Prayers for our family and the adoption process are always appreciated. We are still waiting on a corrected paper from the "extra step" in MOI. Sigh...

Please pray for these babies

Things seem to have gone haywire for Stellan. www.mycharmingkids.net Please keep him in your prayers. Also, please pray for Rose Shirley www.davisinhaiti.blogspot.com Both of these babies have very sick hearts.

A is feeling puny too so I'm taking her to the Dr. tomorrow.

No news on the adoption. Sigh...

Sanomae

It's been a little while since I posted pics of the cats. They just keep doing the same things, over and over. Dexter still stares at the treat cabinet door and Sano still LOVES laundry. Here's a pic of Sano sleeping in the office chair. How do they curl up into little circles?
A dragged her laundry out today and Sano got into it before I could get to it. I hated to interupt her so I washed some other stuff first.

Okay, the clean stuff, still warm from the dryer, is what she really likes.

She roots all through it to find just the right place.

See her foot sticking out? The entire rest of her body is covered with clean sheets. Before she got settled she was completely covered, and purring. It was a little strange for the pile of laundry to be purring. Too funny.
We peeled a little of the sheet back and her little face popped out.

I'll try to get a short video of Misty getting into the stroller and drinking from her sippy cup. Yes, she really does do that.

Stellan

Hey y'all. Please pray for Stellan. His heart continues to have problems. www.mycharmingkids.net I wouldn't mind if you prayed for us too :-)

Couple of pics

Okay, I got a couple of pics from my dad. This is the front/side of the church.

This happened about 5 or 5:30 so it was still dark when he took the pics. This is view from the front. It was the back side of the roof that landed in the parking lot. This is what it did to the front.

This is the roof from the back of the church laying in the parking lot.

We were truly blessed to be able to have services in our church Friday night and Sunday morning.