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| Today was our first rehearsal for this year's Youth Councils. It was great!!! I love watching everyone (that's what you do when you're too old to dance). It was a very hard rehearsal - they danced for 6 hours with only a few very short breaks. But no one really complained or acted like they wanted to kill Bobby when he said OK one more time for the 5th time or 10th time. It's days like this that remind me of how awesome it is to have my job and what a privilege I have to work with the youth of this division (and Bobby - you really belong to us you know). I really felt like the Mama of all 40ish of them as I watched them learn step by step. Sometimes it was hard to watch thinking they'll never get this part, sometimes I was amazed at what they accomplished in just a few minutes. All of the time I was proud of them as they worked together and they made me smile all the way to my heart. A few times I laughed but it was with them, not at them I promise. It is so cool to be able to sit and name them one by and one and remember how long I've known them. Some of them were barely Jr. Soldiers when I moved here (Sabina and Zach come to mind :) It's amazing how many kids I have gotten to know and when I think about how special they are and how much I love them I wonder is that how God feels about me? No, because He loves me more then I can even imagine but if it is anything similar to this that's so cool! | | |
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Yeah I've pretty much lost it :) Have you ever noticed that when you're in a not so good mood it's everyone else that's being hard to get along with? I've been kind of yucky the last few days. I think it's a combo of a lot to do at work and definitely no camps coming up in the near future, add in Mrs. Colonel Mikles' memorial service - it was really nice and we laughed a lot, but it made me think of lots of other funerals I've been to and I liked Mrs. Mikles a bunch. She reminded me of my mother-in-law. In fact they were friends and it made me realize again that Mom is not getting any younger or any healthier. Top that off with my Mom's birthday last week and my husband's birthday yesterday. You come up with a grouchy me. It's weird that days that used to be about celebrating someone are now days to struggle through. Today, I am trying to get over being grouchy. I don't like being this way. It's amazing though how hard it can be to pull yourself out of a mood somtimes. God's trying to help me out though. One of my "kids" called me. (I put it in quotes because she's not really my kid but she is my kid) Anyway she called me twice actually. The first time she was in a serious panic and there was really nothing I could do for her except say I would pray for her and that I would call a friend and ask her to pray as well. She called again later when she had calmed down and shared with me how God was already working out her situation. I knew He would - He always does! That's the ONE thing we can always count on. God will take care of us. He never stops loving us. He knows what we need before we can tell Him. He loves me even when I'm grouchy. He understands why I'm grouchy and let's me whine to Him and doesn't even get uncomfortable if I cry on His shoulder. He has taken such good care of me and I know He will continue to. So even when I'm having a not so great time, I know that God still has the plan and that He is worthy of my praise, my adoration and all honor and glory. I figured since I knew that I should make sure you know too. | | |
| Hey Everybody! This weekend was fabulous!!!! Thanks so much to everyone who helped make it work and to those who came. We had a great time and I am now addicted to coffee. I think Capt. LeBeau hit all of us right where we were at one point or another. I loved just hanging out and hearing people laugh and talk. Everyone even played games outside and I know they didn't really want to. God was there all weekend and He had a lot to say to us. I hope everyone was listening. Now it's back to work at the office. :P I had a meeting first thing yesterday morning and one first thing tomorrow morning. Since I'm not necessarily a morning person I don't like meetings that start at 9 AM. Can we please go back to camp? Waffles at 10 are so much better then meetings at 9. Well, enough whining. Hope everyone had a fabulous New Year Celebration and that this will be one of your best years ever! | | |
| Hope everyone had a great Christmas! We did!!! It was weird having just us here and not more extended family. I missed them, but we still had a good time together. We went totally non-traditional with dinner and had surf and turf. I thought it turned out pretty good and no one got food poisoning :) We had Ehrens over and he is always a lot of fun. We would have had Luke Walker, but I guess he doesn't like us. (jk Luke) We spent a couple of days playing games. The girls are champions of Trivial Pursuit - Pop Culture and Gabe and I are Scene It Champs. None of us can win Trivial Pursuit's SNL edition. It's really hard! Now we are at camp which is one of the reasons I'm in such a great mood. I just love being here. It's been a little on the cold side, but it's just always so pretty and one of my favorite places in the world. Besides Jaime and Jill not being able to come out yet because they have to work, the only thing missing the Penhales and my camp staff kids :( Corrine is here! Yay!!! and of course Pam and Tony, AJ and Adam. Today Kenneth came in to help get things ready for Young Adult Retreat, but I miss everyone else. It's really weird to be here without the Penhales especially cause that doesn't happen very often. (OK I admit it I miss Zella...and Sarah, and Paul, yes and even Major) We've had fun tonight, though. While AJ and Adam played with toys which I just love to have going on in my house, and I worked on a puzzle, and Gabe watched the OSU Cowboys win (GO POKES!) Jordan made a really good dessert and Pam learned how to operate the new cappucino machine. It's fabulous!! I had 2 lattes so I will probably not sleep tonight. Remember I'm old I need decaf :) I'm actually already kind of sleepy, I was just waiting for Jordan to get out of my bathroom so I could get ready for bed and got busy doing stuff on my computer. I'm very excited about the upcoming weekend. It will be great to see some of "my kids" again and catch up. I'm excited to see Mrs. LeBeau because we always have so much fun together. We get to drink lattes and make our own waffles and I got to pick the menu for the weekend so we're having a lot of my favorites. I get to spend "God time" with people I love. It really doesn't get much better then this! I LOVE MY JOB!!!! I hope to see you this weekend. If you're not coming send me some love and say some prayers for those of us who will be here. | | |
| Ok, it's official, I AM GETTING OLD! This is the first Saturday I've had that I could sleep late in months and I have been awake since before 6:00 AM. That's just wrong!!! I used to be so good at sleeping in. It's not that I'm not tired cause I am, but I just can't sleep. My brain has been busily working out things for and thinking about Young Adult Retreat, my time in Stuart this weekend, Young Adult Retreat, the office, Young Adult Retreat, kids in the division, last year's camp staff - what are they doing now?, Young Adult Retreat. Sometimes it would be very nice to be able to turn off your brain, but I guess that whole breathing thing is pretty important. As I lay there trying to will myself back to sleep many of you came to mind and so I spent some time talking to our Dad about you. Did you know you make Him smile? Mrs. Penhale always tells me that when you wake up like that and can't go back to sleep your supposed to pray about whatever is on your mind. Good advice except that I wonder if God really wants to talk to me at that hour of the morning. I mean it's not like I woke Him up or anything, but I'm not very coherent when it's early. In fact what I am is down right grouchy :P I wouldn't want to talk to me at that time of the day, but then I don't want to talk to anyone at that time of the day. So, who's coming to the Young Adult Retreat? Some of you have responded that you are coming. Some of you can't and that makes me sad. Some of you I still don't know if you are coming or not. If you know people who might like to come please get them the info. Or give me a way to get info to them - e-mail address, snail mail, whatever. I sent out e-vites some bounced back and some folks I don't have e-mail addresses for. I sent info out to the Corps, but I know Christmas is so busy that it might not have gotten to everyone. It starts on Saturday, December 30 and ends on Monday, January 1. I've finished the program and I hope I got the right balance of free time, prayer time, worship time, etc. I want everyone to just come and relax and enjoy being at camp and spend some time worshipping together. What better way to spend a weekend? We're going to have a "coffeehouse" area where you can have GOOD coffee and hang out with your friends. We're going to have a "prayer room" with prayer stations set up where you can just spend time with God hanging out with Him. Major Penhale says we can stay in the NEW HOUSING!!!!!! I may have to stay up there with you just so I can say I slept in one of the NEW beds. If you haven't been in there it's NICE! Well, I'm going to go find a cup of coffee and do some things I need to get done. Have a FABULOUS Saturday and remember God and I think you're terrific!!!! | | |
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