Summer 2012

I finally figured how to get back in here and do this again!  I will admit I am far from computer literate, and this just proves it!  Of course in the meantime I am learning all about a new phone as well.  I got great use from my old one, Verizon doesn't make the battery anymore!  John is imagining what will happen when he upgrades, his phone is older than mine. 

But between graduation, a trip to Dallas, Neil Diamond, and freshman orientation, we thought we were busy.  Then the storm hit!  What in the world is a derecho anyway?  It has a Wikipedia definition but I can sum it up:  it was some major wind!  When the storm hit, I thought Isaac would be doing a Dorothy on us, he was outside mowing the grass!  But we were lucky, one tree here, lots at the camp, in the long run, we were okay.  Many weren't as lucky and my heart went out to them.  It looks like clean up is moving us forward.  Forward to what?  As I look ahead, I look at the positive.  Yeah it sounds corny, that's who I am and I enjoy such an attitude.  So vacation is coming up, so is band camp, fall sports, and getting Isaac to college.  Will everything be rosy?  No it won't.  But we will endure, we will adjust.  Just like we adjusted when we had no lights, or no air conditioners, we will adjust to all the changes around us.

Nuff on the deep stuff.  Today as we were late getting to the orthodontist, I kept talking to the cars in front of me as they went very slow, and fussing about the VDOT road crews cutting brush, and Isaac and Laura kept telling me, "Mom, they can't hear you".  But it sure made me feel better!

Catch ya later!
Monsenorita Olivia

Welcome to the new week!

All too often Cinco de Mayo and Derby Day fall on the first Saturday in May, just like it did this weekend.  All we needed was the prom, which is next weekend.  So what is a girl to do??????  Mexican for supper and Margaritas in our 1983 Derby glasses!

And it was a great way to end a week.  So today is the beginning of a new week.  Celebrate the day!  Church, family, work, friends, whatever it may be, life is a gift, and one we must celebrate!  I preached that Phillip shared his guidance with the Ethiopian eunuch teaching him that in spite of what the world had done to him, he was still a welcomed, whole child in God's eyes.  What would the world be if we all accepted and believed that in spite of what the world hands us, we are always God's children?  We should believe that, but all too often we forget.  All too often we forge ahead on our own only to be pushed back by the Spirit as it wants us to surrender. 

Nuff on the preaching, back to life.  This weekend was one of celebration.  Next weekend will also be one of celebration with prom and with Mother's Day.  The five days inbetween will be full, will have mundane time (Tuesday is a Presbytery meeting!) times of challenge, times to work hard.  But, in the end, it will be a week we are given to celebrate the life that is ours through faith, fun, family and friends.  So I am ready to kick back, drink up, (probably back to iced tea) and enjoy the week.  It will be busy, it will bring new revelations to my life, but it will be lived to the fullest!  

Later....

Full speed ahead

What does one do with a blog?  Whatever one wants to do.  So, in beginning this adventure, I will be curious to see where I take it.  I think it will reflect my mood of the day when I write; I think I will blog about the fact that I am not a computer whiz, that I will make many mistakes here and in life, and that I will do my best to enjoy each day.  Life is busy, life is full, life is a rollar coaster, and life if great!  Let's make an adventure!