Hi! Just thought I might give everyone a little heads up about life lately...
Christmas was fabulous.. We had Christmas dinner with my parents in their new house with my brother Zane, his wife Shannon and my niece Katelin. They are visiting from Maryland. Funny thing is, until yesterday... they had no electricity! We had a hallelujah breakdown yesterday afternoon after the electricity was installed. My dad called and had me bring out the camera! We took a picture of my mom turning on the power to the house! Then, we installed the 37" flat screen that Mom & I found on Black Friday. It took Rod and Dad a bit of time to figure out how to get it to hang on the hanger that hangs on the wall. Then Rod and Garrett went to their 'old' house and got the 360 and we watched 20 minutes of Ratatouille on the big screen tv. Yah, all of us, even my parents, sitting on couches in front of the new tv in the new house. Making new memories.
At least the heat is on now. I suppose they could officially move in!
Their phone was supposed to be transferred today... but of course that couldn't go as planned. Not sure about a date for the phone.
I've had a cold since the day after Christmas. Rod had the week off. I guess it was a good thing, because I was sick most of his time off. Even though I was sick, we managed to take some of the kids from our Friday School group sledding as well as we took our own kids sledding.
Rod and I are getting involved with the Teens from our Friday School group. Sledding was the first official thing we planned. We are going to go Ice Skating in January. Then, we are going (and whoever wants to come is invited) to go see Toby Mac (from DC Talk) in February at Overlake Christian Church. (Have you ever seen their sanctuary??!!) That should be a ton of fun. Once Friday School has started the spring term, we are most likely going to begin a Youth night... we're thinking of starting it once a month. I know most of you know but Rod and I were really involved with Youth Ministry in our college and early married days. We've noticed that there is a need in our own Co-op. Since we both have a youth ministry background, we thought we'd do it. And our teen group includes 7th & up... which means that in a couple of years, Josiah will be in it. So we thought we'd try to get it started so it will be established by the time our own kids are involved!
I'm doing the newsletter for our Co-op. Each month writing a cover story/letter gets easier and easier. I didn't think I would ever write one at all. I thought I'd stick filler in it and not really worry about writing something. But I've come to enjoy it. The St. John's who started friday school have invited me to write for their ezine... Haven't submitted anything there yet, but I'm sure I will.
Still meeting on fridays with my prayer group. It started out we were reading a christian book together. Now we are doing a bible video series by Ken Hamm. It's a little bit older of a video series, but excellent content.
It's the New Year, which means I have to get Rod's vacation schedule scheduled for this year on his work calendar. It took me a couple of years to feel okay with scheduling out the entire year. I'm used to it now... but it's something that needs to be done in the next few days.
Since we took the Holidays off from homeschooling, I guess it's time to get going again. I really like schooling... I just don't like the getting going part!
I guess that's all for now :) Happy New Year! Zindra
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