Tennesse Winter Storm

Winter Storm January 2010!! This is it folks! Our Tennessee winter storm that resulted in two days of cancelled school! Which was mostly due to ice on the roads as it was VERY cold!! (as in 13 degrees!!) This is our driveway the first morning of "no school". It was still snowing a little... Becca actually went out and played in the snow! She has a pair of snow pants (a hand me down from a friend...thanks Kimberly!) They kept her very warm and DRY! She only stayed out for 15 minutes maybe...not much of an extreme weather person. She does not like "hot" days and she does not like "cold" days....even as a small baby she cried if you took her outside.... Bobby went out for a few minutes.. mostly to aggravate his sister! This was the week of 5 January... happy to say this week end the weather was nice...just needed a light jacket!

Happy New Year!

Just a quick entry to say Happy New Year! I am going to try and be more regular with bloggint his year.. I finally finished my degree in December!! Working full time, online full time college student, and most importantly my time with my family has made for a couple of busy years!! But I am done!!! Hooray for me!!

Here is our Thanksgiving Feast...We have so much to be thankful for in our lives!

Good Words...

"This is the work we have to do: hold fast to the confession of hope without wavering! Claim
Christ this day as your own. Open your heart to his healing love and grace. Then walk out these
great wooden doors to share him with the world.
“Hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is
faithful.”"
The Rev. Timothy E. Kimbrough
Christ Church Cathedral
Nashville, TN
November 15, 2009

http://www.christcathedral.org/WorshipMusic/Sermons

I was looking at the web site for the cathedral in Nashville and read a few of his past sermons. This was from a sermon on what the word "confession" means. The sermon in its entirety is awesome.

The left image is Bobby at Disney on the tram going from the parking lot to the park. The middle image is Bobby and his date for homecoming earlier this month. And the last is Becca and Daddy at Disney. The gentleman in the green shirt is Byron Veasy. His family met us there, Rick and Byron have known each other for over 20 years. We had a great time...very relaxing, no agandas, no schedules, just fun!

Teen Homelessness

My 14 year old son, Bobby, participated in a church activity last night in which they were homeless. It was appropriately called "Cardboard Village". This was organized by a member of our church who grew up in Trinity (Trinity Episcopal Church) http://www.trinityparish.com/ and is now attending seminary. This project required the youth to sleep in a cardboard "village" they constructed, participate in a service project at the Salvation Army, and read passages from the Bible and have discussions. Their village was destroyed while they were at the Salvation Army and the Sheriff showed up at midnight to escort the "homeless" off the church property (all of which was pre-arranged). Oh, I forgot to mention the fact that it rained last night and their dinner was in the trash cans (in baggies)! This project was done to increase their awareness of homelessness. Personally I am hoping that my son appreciates the little things in his life a little more...i.e. a house, clean clothes, and a shower!! This project is going to be done annually with the hope of participation from other local churches.

Food for thought.........

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32108119/ns/health-health_care/

This article was thought provoking for me. Does this hospital have the right to deport this illegal immigrant back to their country? Why would a hospital spend their own money to fly this man via a chartered flight back to his country?? They did this to avoid his long term health cost to the hospital as an illegal immigrant. They were being sneaky and failed to let family here legally know that they were sending him back. He is on a 4th grade level after his accident and the hospital claims he understood and asked to be sent back to his country?? To a country with poverty and poor, hard to access health care?? However.... do we as a country have a obligation to pay for his long term health care expenses as he was here illegally in a job where he could not legally obtain health insurance because he was here illegally??? We are speaking of a person who never contributed to social security or paid any type of taxes (city, state, or federal).

Finally we have some nice and cool weather.... Kids are getting ready for school... starts 7 Aug! Hard to believe that Bobby is going to be in High School! And my sweet daughter in 1st grade! Time flies!

Will post pics from 1st day of school soon!