In a Nutshell

Well, here we are, halfway through May already.  I thought I’d share some highlights of the past week or so.

1.  Jeff left for Thailand again this past Saturday.  For the second time in a row, his flight from Peoria to Chicago was cancelled the morning of departure.  What that meant this time around is that he had to rent a car and drive to Chicago to catch a flight leaving nine hours later and flying the opposite direction of his original flight.  Instead of connecting through Tokyo to Bangkok, he connected through London.  The guy at the boarding desk in London told him that he wasn’t supposed to be there (yet there he was indeed!) and couldn’t get on the plane, to which you can imagine how Jeff responded.  He did get on the plane and is now safely in Bangkok.  It’s always something!

2.  My mom came for a visit this past Friday and will be leaving tomorrow morning.  It’s been very nice having her here, especially with Jeff’s being gone.  Jeremy took to her almost immediately, and Charlotte and Elijah are also enjoying her visit.

3.  Soccer ended with a whimper this past Saturday, as the last games of the season were rained out.  I know that Elijah’s coach is not planning to make the game up, but I’m not sure what’s going to happen with Charlotte’s team.  Her age bracket was supposed to play the final “tournament” games, so there are some first, second, and third place trophies sitting in someone’s house just waiting for a bunch of fourth and fifth graders to take them home.  Hmmm.

4.  Elijah is rapidly rolling toward his first baseball game, which is supposed to be next Monday.  He’s had a couple of practices and is catching on well.  Team pictures are tonight, and the boys will be playing a practice game in their uniforms on Saturday morning.  Dairy Queen in the team sponsor, so the coaches have scheduled a couple of coaches’ treat DQ nights.  Elijah and ice cream…a match made in heaven! 

5.  And, finally, my heart got a little bit pierced yesterday when Charlotte brought home youth group information from church.  Yep!  On June 12, she begins transitioning to the junior high youth group, or the jrhi uthgroop, as I think it is better known.  David Bell, the person who works with this age group at both campuses, is fantastic and has been connecting with these upcoming sixth graders since we launched the East Campus in January, so Charlotte is excited.  I suppose that I am, too, although I am also bewildered as to how she is suddenly old enough to be in a youth group!  So, the time arrives when I will have one in the nursery, one in the children’s ministry, and one in the youth group.  What the hey?!

And that’s our life in a nutshell.  I tried to export my blog to Facebook, but I keep getting a message that something is not functioning correctly and that FB is working on it.  Maybe they’re just struggling to find time to get to it, what with the stealth attacks on Google.  If anyone has any suggestions, short of manually typing in the link each time, I’d be happy to hear them!

Happy Monday!