This is a must-read:
http://dayngrzone.blogspot.com/2008/12/three-wise-men-real-story.html
Enjoy!
:-)
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas!
More pictures will come later, but Emily loved opening gifts at Bella's house.
Had several really good gifts, but my favorite so far is my new sewing machine. Well, it's not new - my MIL got a new one for her birthday, so she gave me hers, so it's new to me!
:-D
Projects, here we come!
I'll post more after tomorrow, as well as Emily's six-month pictures with her Pooh Bear.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Had several really good gifts, but my favorite so far is my new sewing machine. Well, it's not new - my MIL got a new one for her birthday, so she gave me hers, so it's new to me!
:-D
Projects, here we come!
I'll post more after tomorrow, as well as Emily's six-month pictures with her Pooh Bear.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Life is Getting Back on Track
For those of you who know, I have been working for an insurance company (the local office of a national company) since we moved here early this fall. It's been a bit of a crazy ride. To make a long story short, at the beginning of November there was a corporate buy-out of the national company, and the existing CEO and the rest of the V.P.'s and directors, down to all the regional branch managers (including my boss) resigned. When this happened, they established a new corporation with a much larger and more established national company and are now under the wing of this company.
At that time, I had three options in front of me. Stay with UIG, the company I was originally working for, go with my boss and manager to the new company, as I was one of eight asked to go over with them, or go a completely different route. I chose to go with the new company, and though at has been a hard and very busy month of transition, I am glad I did. And I finally (finally!) got my paycheck yesterday - things have gotten a bit tight while we've waited for the new payroll to get set up, and our emergency savings had gotten depleted with the birth of Emily and our move to Georiga. But I think things are looking up again. Killing our debt again, here we come!!! :-)
But I'm enjoying a weekend off right now - it's the first one I haven't worked in about three weeks. And Emily is sooo snuggly today in her new Pooh Bear flannel footie P.J.'s, so I'm going to spend time with her. I'll post again soon!
At that time, I had three options in front of me. Stay with UIG, the company I was originally working for, go with my boss and manager to the new company, as I was one of eight asked to go over with them, or go a completely different route. I chose to go with the new company, and though at has been a hard and very busy month of transition, I am glad I did. And I finally (finally!) got my paycheck yesterday - things have gotten a bit tight while we've waited for the new payroll to get set up, and our emergency savings had gotten depleted with the birth of Emily and our move to Georiga. But I think things are looking up again. Killing our debt again, here we come!!! :-)
But I'm enjoying a weekend off right now - it's the first one I haven't worked in about three weeks. And Emily is sooo snuggly today in her new Pooh Bear flannel footie P.J.'s, so I'm going to spend time with her. I'll post again soon!
Monday, December 8, 2008
Good Day, Bad Moment
Okay, much better day at work today; last week was just horrid.
It was a pretty good day until I was 2nd in line to make a right hand turn, at a light with a green arrow for our lane to turn right. However, after the guy in front of me started to roll forward (and thus, I started moving forward), someone ran a red light. Mr. Silver BMW in front of me slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting the Mr. Stupid Driver Who Must Have Been Color Blind And Could Have Caused A Very Bad Accident thus causing me to slam on my brakes.
But poor Nitska, our lovely Nissan Sentra. She can only stop so fast. And this time, not fast enough.
So yep, my first ever accident. However, I only scratched Mr. Silver BMW, and as the driver informed me it was just a company car and not to worry about exchanging insurance information.
As for Nitska? She is fine, just minus one of these:
Yep, her poor deer whistle snapped off; Mr. Husband fussed at me for not picking it up off of the road (I was a bit distracted, you know?).
So, I'm okay, the car's okay, and Jonathan has forbade me from doing anything in the car but driving. Probably a good thing I'm not driving to Atlanta tomorrow for our conference (a group of us are car-pooling together). But I have to leave here at about 5:15 in the morning for it. Ugh.
So I need to go. To bed.
Will post later! :-)
It was a pretty good day until I was 2nd in line to make a right hand turn, at a light with a green arrow for our lane to turn right. However, after the guy in front of me started to roll forward (and thus, I started moving forward), someone ran a red light. Mr. Silver BMW in front of me slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting the Mr. Stupid Driver Who Must Have Been Color Blind And Could Have Caused A Very Bad Accident thus causing me to slam on my brakes.
But poor Nitska, our lovely Nissan Sentra. She can only stop so fast. And this time, not fast enough.
So yep, my first ever accident. However, I only scratched Mr. Silver BMW, and as the driver informed me it was just a company car and not to worry about exchanging insurance information.
As for Nitska? She is fine, just minus one of these:
Yep, her poor deer whistle snapped off; Mr. Husband fussed at me for not picking it up off of the road (I was a bit distracted, you know?).
So, I'm okay, the car's okay, and Jonathan has forbade me from doing anything in the car but driving. Probably a good thing I'm not driving to Atlanta tomorrow for our conference (a group of us are car-pooling together). But I have to leave here at about 5:15 in the morning for it. Ugh.
So I need to go. To bed.
Will post later! :-)
Sunday, December 7, 2008
I think (and hope) our search is done!
What search is that, you ask?
Why, it's the biggest, most yucky, very marriage-challenge search we've had in quite a while.
Yep, finding a new home church.
It's funny how two people very accustomed to working in fulltime ministry would struggle soooo much with finding a church home. But in a word, it makes sense. We've never gotten to choose our own church - they have always come with our jobs. So yep, Jonathan & I have had a challenge as we've weighted the pros and cons of church shopping.
But I think we finally found one we agree upon.
We've visited their "daughter church" before, and though we both really liked aspects of it, it wasn't the one for us. But today we went to their planting church, and we both really felt that this is a church we can stay in for a long; I can totally see Emily growing up in this church (did I say I really like their children's ministry?). So yeah, I think we've finally our new church home.
:-)
Yeah!
Big weight off our shoulders.
Check it out at www.vineyardaugusta.org.
Why, it's the biggest, most yucky, very marriage-challenge search we've had in quite a while.
Yep, finding a new home church.
It's funny how two people very accustomed to working in fulltime ministry would struggle soooo much with finding a church home. But in a word, it makes sense. We've never gotten to choose our own church - they have always come with our jobs. So yep, Jonathan & I have had a challenge as we've weighted the pros and cons of church shopping.
But I think we finally found one we agree upon.
We've visited their "daughter church" before, and though we both really liked aspects of it, it wasn't the one for us. But today we went to their planting church, and we both really felt that this is a church we can stay in for a long; I can totally see Emily growing up in this church (did I say I really like their children's ministry?). So yeah, I think we've finally our new church home.
:-)
Yeah!
Big weight off our shoulders.
Check it out at www.vineyardaugusta.org.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Wow! It's a post!
Okay, okay, I haven't blogged in ages.
Whoops.
It's not intentional.
It's not even really an accident.
But after years of blogging, I've found I don't have a lot to say lately. There is Jonathan, Emily, and work.
And that's about it.
I don't want to be one of those mommies whose whole life is wrapped up in their child, but she is typically one of the highlights of my day.
Isn't she a cutie? :-)
I'll try to post more often. But until then, adios!
Whoops.
It's not intentional.
It's not even really an accident.
But after years of blogging, I've found I don't have a lot to say lately. There is Jonathan, Emily, and work.
And that's about it.
I don't want to be one of those mommies whose whole life is wrapped up in their child, but she is typically one of the highlights of my day.
Isn't she a cutie? :-)
I'll try to post more often. But until then, adios!
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