Flashback

I will begin by inviting my family (especially Daddy and Anita) to correct and/or fill in any details of this story.

So, we were in the truck, getting ready to leave the house today when Michael remembered that he needed something from inside. He jumped out of the driver's seat, closed the door and as he was running up the front steps, I realized that the truck was moving forward! - toward the garage!

I flash back to a time from my childhood when Anita and I had gone somewhere with Daddy. It was some store on some highway that had a sloped driveway. He left the truck on so we wouldn't get hot and he was close enough that we could seen him talking to a man from where we sat. As a children, I as a scaredy-cat and Anita was a dare-devil. So she leans over me in the middle and bumps the truck into reverse and we start rolling backwards toward the traffic. We are all hysterical and sobbing and don't know that you have to pull the gear shift toward you just a little to make it work. We push and push up and up. I mostly remember thinking that she shouldn't touch it, then being afraid, then I have a picture of her red, crying face when we couldn't fix it. I don't remember how Daddy saved us, but he did.

Thankfully, I know a little more about vehicles now than I did then. I jammed the truck into park about the time Michael made it back to the driver's side door. Whew!

Here's to childhood memories.
(I wonder if I will become disillusioned when people start to correct my memory of this story.)

Babies

Just scrolling through my "friends" on facebook, it seems like everyone I know has kids. Everyone except our friends who until recently didn't want children and our other friends who can't have children of their own but are fostering a teenager and hoping to adopt him. It's not so bad with people who were married when I lived in the same place as them, but randomly seeing facebook pictures of people who I still think of as single standing with their spouse and any number of children is hard.

Update

Well, we just spent 3 1/2 fun days with my parents. They DROVE from Atlanta to bring us my cradle so we will have it when the adoption thing finally happens. We are still working on paperwork and we have our appointment to be evaluated by a psychologist on July 29th. Michael continues to look for a job and is trying to keep himself busy studying the Word, working on the yard and getting involved with the music and youth ministries of Emmanuel Baptist Church. We are encouraging each other and looking for God to lead the way during this time. Thank you all for your prayers.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Today is my birthday and it is in the middle of my birthday week. Michael and I started celebrating birthday weeks a year or two ago. This birthday week he happens to be a counselor at youth camp, so he left me a present to open every day he is gone. On Monday I got one pink garden glove :) Can you guess what I got on Tuesday? Today I opened Alton Brown DVDs. I tell people that he is like the science geek of food; Michael actually saw publicity that called him Bill Nye the Science Guy meets the Food Network. I like his show Good Eats. Anyway, Michael's presents are coming with cryptic messages that so far sound like I have to put Alton Brown himself into some sort of kitchen machinery. We'll see, the boxes get bigger as the week goes on.

In other news, my friend Maureen had a small gathering of friends over for my birthday last night. Also my friend Sasha is spending the night on Friday while her husbands enjoys his annual 4th of July guys weekend. So, I'm keeping busy while Michael is gone and getting ready for my parents to get here on Sunday! Hopefully we'll be meeting both of them in South Dakota to see Mt. Rushmore together. We're all excited and Michael will be our bored tour guide (he's been there many times)

Please keep praying for Michael as he searches for a job and as we wait for God to reveal his leading. Also as we continue with our adoption paperwork.

We love you.