🙂 One of my best friends since college is going to be a grandmother again — this time to 2 twin girls due early next year !!!! 🙂
🙂 SO many adorable and clever *twin* gifts on Amazon, esp the cute coordinated onesies and baby Ts (“Buy One” “Get One Free;” “Copy – Paste,” “I Rock — I Roll,” “Sugar-Spice,” “Womb Mates”) …. I’ve loaded up my wish list with the possibilities, but how to choose? Eeeeeee
🙂 Busy work week, I was able to finish 2 homelessness stories for the weekend, although I would have liked the main one to be meatier — I had trouble paring it down in focus
😦 Yet another staff departure yesterday (our mobile/digital person who is returning to Northern California where her family is — she’s got a marketing job lined up, leaving journalism like so many); I’m actually having trouble keeping all the goodbye cards we’re signing straight (“Who’s this for again?”)
😦 Don’t know how low we can go, staff-wise. It’s getting weird.
😦 The dismal state of the nation and the very-odd (so far) 2016 presidential race. Sigh. This seems like a really strange election cycle to me, unlike any I can remember. I’m underwhelmed. Good to know God’s got this.
😦 Hurricane hitting Mexico wasn’t as bad as feared, but worries continue about flooding
🙂 It’s cooling down some at last (although we’re getting another spate of warm — mid 80s — temps this weekend with desert winds). But the nights are a lot cooler than they were a couple weeks ago and the humidity is down. Well join you all in fall some day …
🙂 Must have been an early homecoming game last night (they’re usually in November). I live just a few blocks away from the high school football field & I could hear the band & fireworks at halftime, which unnerved the dogs of course.
😦 Don’t people know you never offer a child a pet without checking with the parents. A neighbor tired to give the Kid a little dog. Now he’s upset and we’re the bad guys.
KBells @1:36
I know. Years ago, Chuck gave me a kitten for a birthday present. It broke my heart to tell him he had to take that kitten back.
It was supposed to be a big surprise.
It was 😦
My husband once let my daughters adopt a dog without even asking me. I tell you—it is a good thing we promised to stick together for better or worse.
We have been to Thunder Bay a couple of times. The last time was a fiddle contest many years ago. We used to have many Canadians come to a contest close to us. We still get some, but not as many. At any rate, they always welcomed our players to attend their contest.
My daughter had to learn a jig. At a contest different types of songs are required and a jig was required in this contest. She had never played a jig, but learned one in the couple of weeks she had. She did very well in the contest (2nd, I think) but we all laughed when one of the judges said, “Haven’t been playing jig long, have you?” She admitted it was only a couple of weeks.
The judges did like her ‘Texas’ style of fiddling and asked her to teach them a song. She and my husband played until 3 am! Needless to say, we were quite tired, but what a thrill. Those judges were fabulous players themselves.
Kathleena, is it your daughter who wrote the “Sunday School” sont?
SBC dowsn’t want us to say Sunday School anymore. They want us to say “Bible Fellowship Group”.
But we still say Sunday School in Hendersonville.
🙂 Forrest is having a great time on his birthday today. He is now cleaning up some toys so they can leave to go to “Jumping Johnny’s”, one of those places like an indoor bounce house. (I’ve never been in one myself, so I don’t know exactly what it’s like.) Emily’s friend Stacey (the lady who also attends our church) is also going, with her two little sons who are Forrest’s friends.
In all the churches I attended before the one we’re at, it was called the bulletin. At our church, since I don’t remember when — maybe the whole time we’ve been here (since 1988) — our pastors call it the worship folder.
Well, I can understand changing Sunday School, sort of – the first Sunday schools were in fact schools, to teach working class children to read, mostly using the Bible, and also do basic skills. Sunday was their only day off. Things have certainly changed. I still have mixed feelings about Sunday Schools for children – I got so tired of hearing the same stories over and over as a child.
On the other hand, my Little Niece has showed a great interest in hearing Bible stories and doing related crafts. We had a VBS at our church, and I babysat her as she is a bit young to go; but I did read her the creation story and each day we did a sticker craft related to another day of Creation. She loved it, and still whenever I visit, she’ll look up at me and say, in her sweet little voice, “Fist day” and we’ll go and get her craft and I’ll tell her the story again.
The year I taught Sunday School, I only loosely followed the curriculum, and rarely used the teaching materials, preferring to invent my own to keep the attention of some very energetic little boys. I’ve been thinking about teaching Little Niece, who is the only child old enough for Sunday School, but I think I’d like to do it my way instead of depending on the anemic materials available (the stuff I had to work with was very anemic – the pictures weren’t even very good).
However, there isn’t any reason to use another word for bulletin. According to the good old Oxford Dictionary, a bulletin is a short official statement or summary of news. Most church bulletins have church news. Now, if it is only summary of the order of worship, then it should be called a schedule, or perhaps an agenda. Now there is a word which has been misconstrued.
Chas, my daughter did sing that song on the recording she and my husband had made. However, she did not write the song. It is an old bluegrass/gospel tune. I like the song. She did write a song on that recording. She was only sixteen then. She has written some really nice songs, but hasn’t recorded anything except for herself or us, though. She mostly sings and plays at her church these days.
It’s still “bulletin” at our church (and SS for the kids, but Q&A for the adults — because that’s literally the format we use with whomever preached the sermon that day handling the “A” part 🙂 )
Donna, Little Niece sits quietly throughout not only church, but also the adults Sunday School class. Her younger sibling, Baby Niece, however, feels that when people are talking, that is her cue to chime in with crows, shrieks and general babbling 🙂 Little Niece is so curious and so clearly wants to understand more, that it would be nice to teach her the stories in a simpler way.
Our children all sit through adult Sunday School class (we are studying James right now) and then through church. The people keep trying to incorporate them in more, now by doing a children’s story at the beginning. They do a fine job but it is a lot of extra work that is not necessary. But they enjoy doing it, apparently.
Eight year old daughter went forward in church today. Her nine year old brother and I have been praying for her every night.
Fourteen year old daughter decided to opt out of the Lord’s supper today, I suspect the thinking is going towards becoming a witch, but we will continue to pray for her.
🙂 The fact that neither of us can think of any better time off than taking most of a week to be with just each other.
😦 My camera chose this week to act up and make zooming almost impossible.
🙂 Perfect weather and decent colors.
😦 Weather was so perfect our usually quiet getaway was crammed with families and other people hiking.
🙂 Had a very good (extended) sighting of a bald eagle, first flying and then perched, and another quick sighting of a flying one.
🙂 More pileated woodpecker sightings too . . .
😦 but the bird still completely eludes photography by showing up for two seconds at a time, usually flying from a tree near us to one much farther away.
🙂 Overall just an excellent week.
🙂 Some good editing projects waiting, but without the overloaded schedule I’ve had all fall so far (can’t complain, really, since I often have no work at all for weeks at a time by this time of year).
Wandering Views 
😦 The small amount Lee got back from the route.
🙂 But the route is finally sold, & off his shoulders.
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🙂 One of my best friends since college is going to be a grandmother again — this time to 2 twin girls due early next year !!!! 🙂
🙂 SO many adorable and clever *twin* gifts on Amazon, esp the cute coordinated onesies and baby Ts (“Buy One” “Get One Free;” “Copy – Paste,” “I Rock — I Roll,” “Sugar-Spice,” “Womb Mates”) …. I’ve loaded up my wish list with the possibilities, but how to choose? Eeeeeee
🙂 Busy work week, I was able to finish 2 homelessness stories for the weekend, although I would have liked the main one to be meatier — I had trouble paring it down in focus
😦 Yet another staff departure yesterday (our mobile/digital person who is returning to Northern California where her family is — she’s got a marketing job lined up, leaving journalism like so many); I’m actually having trouble keeping all the goodbye cards we’re signing straight (“Who’s this for again?”)
😦 Don’t know how low we can go, staff-wise. It’s getting weird.
😦 The dismal state of the nation and the very-odd (so far) 2016 presidential race. Sigh. This seems like a really strange election cycle to me, unlike any I can remember. I’m underwhelmed. Good to know God’s got this.
😦 Hurricane hitting Mexico wasn’t as bad as feared, but worries continue about flooding
🙂 It’s cooling down some at last (although we’re getting another spate of warm — mid 80s — temps this weekend with desert winds). But the nights are a lot cooler than they were a couple weeks ago and the humidity is down. Well join you all in fall some day …
🙂 Must have been an early homecoming game last night (they’re usually in November). I live just a few blocks away from the high school football field & I could hear the band & fireworks at halftime, which unnerved the dogs of course.
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🙂 Great wedding of a wonderful young man last Saturday
🙂 Reconnecting with ‘old’ friends (a bunch of them looked a whole lot older, too)
🙂 Attending church where we left a part of our heart after 17 years
🙂 Melissa (stroke victim) in church and doing extremely well
🙂 Meeting her little boy (whom we all prayed for 2 ½ years ago). He’s adorable!
😦 Husband called into work due to a large poaching case
🙂 We were only 40 minutes from the scene instead of 6 hours
🙂 Half our hotel bill is now paid for by his work
😦 Long days for husband 🙂 He comes home today
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😦 Don’t people know you never offer a child a pet without checking with the parents. A neighbor tired to give the Kid a little dog. Now he’s upset and we’re the bad guys.
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That’s hard, kBells. 😦 I hope he gets over it soon.
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🙂 Just found out his best friend might be moving to Georgia. Kid not having a good day.
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Poor Kid. 😦 Is mama happy about BF moving?
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BF hasn’t been the best influence, but it could be worse.
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KBells @1:36
I know. Years ago, Chuck gave me a kitten for a birthday present. It broke my heart to tell him he had to take that kitten back.
It was supposed to be a big surprise.
It was 😦
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Chas!
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My children gave me two parakeets to keep me company. I kept them, but it did not work and they did not last long.
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I just noticed I put 🙂 instead of a 😦 on the Kid’s BF moving. It really is mostly bad news and was meant to be a rant.
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My husband once let my daughters adopt a dog without even asking me. I tell you—it is a good thing we promised to stick together for better or worse.
We have been to Thunder Bay a couple of times. The last time was a fiddle contest many years ago. We used to have many Canadians come to a contest close to us. We still get some, but not as many. At any rate, they always welcomed our players to attend their contest.
My daughter had to learn a jig. At a contest different types of songs are required and a jig was required in this contest. She had never played a jig, but learned one in the couple of weeks she had. She did very well in the contest (2nd, I think) but we all laughed when one of the judges said, “Haven’t been playing jig long, have you?” She admitted it was only a couple of weeks.
The judges did like her ‘Texas’ style of fiddling and asked her to teach them a song. She and my husband played until 3 am! Needless to say, we were quite tired, but what a thrill. Those judges were fabulous players themselves.
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Kathleena, is it your daughter who wrote the “Sunday School” sont?
SBC dowsn’t want us to say Sunday School anymore. They want us to say “Bible Fellowship Group”.
But we still say Sunday School in Hendersonville.
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Chas – That’s like when they renamed the bulletin as the “worship guide”, but we still call it the bulletin.
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🙂 Forrest is having a great time on his birthday today. He is now cleaning up some toys so they can leave to go to “Jumping Johnny’s”, one of those places like an indoor bounce house. (I’ve never been in one myself, so I don’t know exactly what it’s like.) Emily’s friend Stacey (the lady who also attends our church) is also going, with her two little sons who are Forrest’s friends.
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In all the churches I attended before the one we’re at, it was called the bulletin. At our church, since I don’t remember when — maybe the whole time we’ve been here (since 1988) — our pastors call it the worship folder.
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Well, I can understand changing Sunday School, sort of – the first Sunday schools were in fact schools, to teach working class children to read, mostly using the Bible, and also do basic skills. Sunday was their only day off. Things have certainly changed. I still have mixed feelings about Sunday Schools for children – I got so tired of hearing the same stories over and over as a child.
On the other hand, my Little Niece has showed a great interest in hearing Bible stories and doing related crafts. We had a VBS at our church, and I babysat her as she is a bit young to go; but I did read her the creation story and each day we did a sticker craft related to another day of Creation. She loved it, and still whenever I visit, she’ll look up at me and say, in her sweet little voice, “Fist day” and we’ll go and get her craft and I’ll tell her the story again.
The year I taught Sunday School, I only loosely followed the curriculum, and rarely used the teaching materials, preferring to invent my own to keep the attention of some very energetic little boys. I’ve been thinking about teaching Little Niece, who is the only child old enough for Sunday School, but I think I’d like to do it my way instead of depending on the anemic materials available (the stuff I had to work with was very anemic – the pictures weren’t even very good).
However, there isn’t any reason to use another word for bulletin. According to the good old Oxford Dictionary, a bulletin is a short official statement or summary of news. Most church bulletins have church news. Now, if it is only summary of the order of worship, then it should be called a schedule, or perhaps an agenda. Now there is a word which has been misconstrued.
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Chas, my daughter did sing that song on the recording she and my husband had made. However, she did not write the song. It is an old bluegrass/gospel tune. I like the song. She did write a song on that recording. She was only sixteen then. She has written some really nice songs, but hasn’t recorded anything except for herself or us, though. She mostly sings and plays at her church these days.
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It’s still “bulletin” at our church (and SS for the kids, but Q&A for the adults — because that’s literally the format we use with whomever preached the sermon that day handling the “A” part 🙂 )
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And the kids stay in the regular service throughout, SS is held afterward.
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love to hear that the kids are in church.
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Donna, Little Niece sits quietly throughout not only church, but also the adults Sunday School class. Her younger sibling, Baby Niece, however, feels that when people are talking, that is her cue to chime in with crows, shrieks and general babbling 🙂 Little Niece is so curious and so clearly wants to understand more, that it would be nice to teach her the stories in a simpler way.
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Our children all sit through adult Sunday School class (we are studying James right now) and then through church. The people keep trying to incorporate them in more, now by doing a children’s story at the beginning. They do a fine job but it is a lot of extra work that is not necessary. But they enjoy doing it, apparently.
Eight year old daughter went forward in church today. Her nine year old brother and I have been praying for her every night.
Fourteen year old daughter decided to opt out of the Lord’s supper today, I suspect the thinking is going towards becoming a witch, but we will continue to pray for her.
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🙂 Much-needed week away with my honey.
🙂 The fact that neither of us can think of any better time off than taking most of a week to be with just each other.
😦 My camera chose this week to act up and make zooming almost impossible.
🙂 Perfect weather and decent colors.
😦 Weather was so perfect our usually quiet getaway was crammed with families and other people hiking.
🙂 Had a very good (extended) sighting of a bald eagle, first flying and then perched, and another quick sighting of a flying one.
🙂 More pileated woodpecker sightings too . . .
😦 but the bird still completely eludes photography by showing up for two seconds at a time, usually flying from a tree near us to one much farther away.
🙂 Overall just an excellent week.
🙂 Some good editing projects waiting, but without the overloaded schedule I’ve had all fall so far (can’t complain, really, since I often have no work at all for weeks at a time by this time of year).
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