Sunday, February 22, 2009
Potpourri............
Hi All,
It has been a while since I updated, so I thought I better let you all know the latest.
We have been having rather strange weather, it warmed up for several days and then got very wind, which resulted in yet another loss of power! Yes, less than a week after getting our power back, we lost it again, but thankfully this time it was only for 3 hours! The winds were pretty bad and several people sustained major damage in the area.
The progress on the kids bathroom is moving along nicely now that we have electricity. Russell is doing a really nice job on it and it going to look great when it is finished. We wished we could have replaced their tub/shower, however because of how the drain is positioned it would have meant special ordering something and right now we just weren't a position to spend that much on a tub/shower unit.
The kids are doing well. We received midterms this past week..........well I won't expand on them too much, as one was very disappointing and one was exactly what we would have expected from her.
Isaac has managed to catch the "bug" that has been going around and missed a couple days of school this past week.
Today we visited the Baptist church, as it was scout Sunday (since we missed the original Scout Sunday due to weather). Darryl did a great job reading and it was a nice service. I must admit though, I really missed our church, people weren't nearly as friendly as I would have expected.
We have a busy week ahead.....Rachel as Solo & Ensemble on Saturday and Darryl has a Boy Scout Badge Day in Shelby County. The troop is working hard so that the sophomores will reach Eagle status by the time they are seniors.
I have some new pictures to post, and will get those up in a little bit. But I first must start on our taxes.
We hope this posts finds you all doing well and staying warm and being safe.
Love,
Tina
It has been a while since I updated, so I thought I better let you all know the latest.
We have been having rather strange weather, it warmed up for several days and then got very wind, which resulted in yet another loss of power! Yes, less than a week after getting our power back, we lost it again, but thankfully this time it was only for 3 hours! The winds were pretty bad and several people sustained major damage in the area.
The progress on the kids bathroom is moving along nicely now that we have electricity. Russell is doing a really nice job on it and it going to look great when it is finished. We wished we could have replaced their tub/shower, however because of how the drain is positioned it would have meant special ordering something and right now we just weren't a position to spend that much on a tub/shower unit.
The kids are doing well. We received midterms this past week..........well I won't expand on them too much, as one was very disappointing and one was exactly what we would have expected from her.
Isaac has managed to catch the "bug" that has been going around and missed a couple days of school this past week.
Today we visited the Baptist church, as it was scout Sunday (since we missed the original Scout Sunday due to weather). Darryl did a great job reading and it was a nice service. I must admit though, I really missed our church, people weren't nearly as friendly as I would have expected.
We have a busy week ahead.....Rachel as Solo & Ensemble on Saturday and Darryl has a Boy Scout Badge Day in Shelby County. The troop is working hard so that the sophomores will reach Eagle status by the time they are seniors.
I have some new pictures to post, and will get those up in a little bit. But I first must start on our taxes.
We hope this posts finds you all doing well and staying warm and being safe.
Love,
Tina
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Random Thoughts.......
Well since I last posted, we received more snow that caused the kids more snow days last week and we had our power restored on Tuesday!!! I actually cried (for most I'm sure you are not shocked by that), it was such a relief to have electricity. We were actually a whole family again, I really missed having all of our children in the house. Russell did 10 loads of laundry on Wednesday and we are slowly getting the house back to normal. We were very thankful for 50 degree weather this past weekend, it melted the snow and ice that caused all the drama!
I would like to ask for prayers of support. As the one year anniversary of my Daddy's death gets closer, I find myself being so very sad and missing him so much. I guess it has taken me a while to get to this point since I was so sick for so long when he died and the many months after. I really don't think I started to really process it all for a while.
Well, before I go to far down this road, and get all sad again today, I am going to close and take care of the clothes in the dryer, make sure that all the kids are tucked in (with lights off) and I get my exhausted husband into bed.....
So with that I say goodnight from my little corner of the world.
Tina
I would like to ask for prayers of support. As the one year anniversary of my Daddy's death gets closer, I find myself being so very sad and missing him so much. I guess it has taken me a while to get to this point since I was so sick for so long when he died and the many months after. I really don't think I started to really process it all for a while.
Well, before I go to far down this road, and get all sad again today, I am going to close and take care of the clothes in the dryer, make sure that all the kids are tucked in (with lights off) and I get my exhausted husband into bed.....
So with that I say goodnight from my little corner of the world.
Tina
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Quick Update
Hi All,
Just a quick update while I have generator power and the laptop has battery life! We are all okay.......we were hit pretty hard by the storm here in Trimble County. The kids didn't have school all last week, and we aren't sure if they will have it tomorrow. We are thankful that we have a fireplace and a gas stove. We have been living in one room of the house. Today was my first real shower since Wednesday morning (when we lost power). Rachel and Darryl have been at our friends house since Friday night. They came and got them because we couldn't even get the van out to go and take them anywhere. We worked forever to get the truck to the end of the drive so I could go to work on Friday. The office was closed on Tuesday and Wednesday and I had to take a vacation day on Thursday.
We ran out of firewood, plenty to cut, but unable to cut. Thanks to wonderful neighbors they allowed us to get as much as we needed. Yesterday Russell went and bought a rick of wood so we didn't have to keep borrowing. Thanks to Mark and Terri Mounce for the firewood.
We now have a generator to use thanks to Jeff and Lisa Moore! They offered us theirs since they got electricity on Friday. THANKS LISA & JEFF!
Please pray that our electricity comes on tomorrow and that Russell continues to be strong. He has done a wonderful job of taking care of keeping us warm (staying half awake to keep the fire going all night and all day, hauling wood and shoveling and pushing stuck vehicles).
Well that is all for now, will update as soon as possible.
Tina
Just a quick update while I have generator power and the laptop has battery life! We are all okay.......we were hit pretty hard by the storm here in Trimble County. The kids didn't have school all last week, and we aren't sure if they will have it tomorrow. We are thankful that we have a fireplace and a gas stove. We have been living in one room of the house. Today was my first real shower since Wednesday morning (when we lost power). Rachel and Darryl have been at our friends house since Friday night. They came and got them because we couldn't even get the van out to go and take them anywhere. We worked forever to get the truck to the end of the drive so I could go to work on Friday. The office was closed on Tuesday and Wednesday and I had to take a vacation day on Thursday.
We ran out of firewood, plenty to cut, but unable to cut. Thanks to wonderful neighbors they allowed us to get as much as we needed. Yesterday Russell went and bought a rick of wood so we didn't have to keep borrowing. Thanks to Mark and Terri Mounce for the firewood.
We now have a generator to use thanks to Jeff and Lisa Moore! They offered us theirs since they got electricity on Friday. THANKS LISA & JEFF!
Please pray that our electricity comes on tomorrow and that Russell continues to be strong. He has done a wonderful job of taking care of keeping us warm (staying half awake to keep the fire going all night and all day, hauling wood and shoveling and pushing stuck vehicles).
Well that is all for now, will update as soon as possible.
Tina
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