Growing up

 Dear Family,

 

            No matter what, God is with us.  This was the resounding theme I heard this week from devotionals, messages, and Bible reading.  Be reassured – we are not alone in this hard struggle.  We are loved, cared for, precious, and not guaranteed an easy life.  This is how it is, hardships come.  Struggle result in strength.

            Seth continues to do his school work and enjoy the extra time saved from commuting and class changes.  He is doing well in school and his job.  Seth also had senior pictures done.  Wow, he is a senior already.   I am thankful to Wendee Schmitke for the great pictures.

            Adriel is having friends over which delights me.  She enjoys skateboarding outside.  She said it is a great core workout.  She loves to show off her bruises, scrapes, and gore.  Adriel keeps at her job and school work.  I am proud of her strength in adversity.  She hates online school but has no other option so she does it.

            Bobby cooked an immense amount of chicken and dumplings for our family and his mom and sister.  Mom is recovering from shoulder surgery so it makes sense that a food delivery would be kind of him.  He made so much I thought he hadn’t brought it yet.  Thank goodness Seth loves chicken and dumplings.  It’s almost gone now.

            The youth group continues to engage our church youth.  They come, sing, listen, and chat.  Bobby will stop the online youth group in November.  This is good, meeting in person is better.  We also had a fun youth group event where he had amazing rice with pineapple meatballs.  YUM.  He even had pineapple dole whip for dessert.  How fun.

            If you have ever woken up to an immense amount of skittering in your bedroom at 4 am you might have a cat.  At first, we were going to sleep through it but Skyra gave up the chase and began to meow at us. There are a lot of items under our bed.  Ugh.  I brought items all out one by one and then the rat decided to run into the closet! 

I did the rat dance and jumped onto the bed.  I tried to catch it in a box but I am not that fast with putting the lid on.  UGH!  Finally, Skyra had it cornered but then she began to love on it!

Bobby took over.  He is very fast and my hero.  He had it in a clear organizer box.  But what to do with a live rat?  I couldn’t kill it.  So, I put it on Craigslist free with directions on where it was.  I put the clear box under a light on the corner of Hemlock and Holly.  No one picked it up.  No one wanted a wild rat for their new pet.  Sigh.  I kept checking on it.  By about 1 PM the box was open.  I can only imagine the surprise.

            Oh family, may you be careful when opening random things on the street.  May you find peace in your everyday life.  May you enjoy every breath God gifts you – especially now that the air is clean.  God bless you!  Much Love,

 

 

Cristy