I feel like school started, I blinked, and 2 months have passed.
Anyway, things have been pretty busy in our house. Both kids are in school, one is in soccer, the other one in ballet/tap, and both are in Awana. I'm pretty busy at church these days, probably over-committed. But I'm really enjoying this reason of life. I enjoy getting the kids ready for school, helping them out with homework, preparing for my Bible studies, and the fact that it's fall right now. Since I don't have a lot of free time these days, I've been weighing everything I do very carefully to make sure I know what my intentions are for doing things. It takes a lot of effort to live this way, but have found it's worth it.
For some reason, the topic of death has been a reoccurring theme in the things I've watched or read. I don't know if I'm just more sensitive to the topic or what, but I'm grateful for it. I've been able to reassess my life and try to put things back into perspective. I was able to re-prioritize things because all of a sudden I'm afraid of regret. I'm so glad I did that because so many things were in the wrong places.
ANYWAY, what's a post without pictures right? Here are some things that's been going on in our life lately:
At 2am on Sat morning we decided we were going Michigan for Labor Day weekend
We went apple picking while we were there. We went to our favorite apple orchard. I think I've been going there since I was 8 years old. They have the best cherry waffles, too. Too bad the apples were small. It was a bad apple reason due to drought and heat.
We went to a pumpkin farm close to our house and rode on camels for the first time
After two long years, our new worship center at church finally opened
College group started up again. You can see some pictures from our opening night here. (I'm all the way on the right)
We're bringing the kids to see the Little Einsteins & Handy Manny tomorrow, so I'm sure I'll have lots of pictures to post.
Until then...