I thought I posted yesterday but I guess I must of been thinking about it and never did it. Today I’ll post about a couple different things

School Open House: Tonight from 5-7pm is an open house at Caleb’s school.  We will get to meet his teacher, see his classroom – the same stuff we do every year on open house night.  He has a male teacher this year, the first time he’s had a male teacher, so I’m wondering if there will be less listening issues this year (he tends to listen to men better than women).

Writing: I purchased Laurie Dart’s book The Everyday Guide to Writing Wisely quite awhile ago but I never made time to sit down and go through it…until this weekend.  With the burning desire to write a book I’ve been reading and researching and getting my hands on everything I can that will help me write better.

And boy oh boy do I feel like I’m starting at square one! Reading through Laurie’s Everyday Guide to Writing Wisely reminded me just how much I’ve forgotten! I mean even your basic grammar I’ve forgotten.  And I’m also learning new things.  Like I never knew that writing on the web you weren’t supposed to put two spaces behind punctuation like I learned in school during my typing class. I was taught (in typing class) that after a period or question mark or whatever you spaced two times before starting your next sentence. Laurie’s book informed me that when writing on the web you only space one time! This is definitely an adjustment to get used to when I’ve done the two spaces for YEARS! Even in college when writing papers, etc on the computer I did two spaces. It’s hard to retrain yourself when you’ve done something for so LONG! And I’ve learned that I’m ‘wordy’ (which I knew that) and need to cut down on using extra words. I loved the book and definitely recommend it!

Car Update: Wednesday will mark the three week period with NO car! The ‘diagnosis’ came in yesterday and wasn’t very good. I need a new timing chain and a bunch of other stuff. Not a cheap or easy fix. I need $300.00 to cover everything. Not sure what God’s plan in this situation is but I’m sure there is a lesson to be learned, as there always is in situations that come about.

Camping Trip (Mini Vacation): Caleb and I were supposed to camp this coming weekend for three nights as an end of the summer ’mommy’s sorry she’s done nothing but work all summer’ trip.  Something the both of us were really looking forward to. But now because of the broken down car & trying to come up with the money to fix it & no car to get us there we can’t go.  Caleb was so heart broken when I told him last night. 

Church: I can’t believe how amazing and ‘right’ my new church is to me.  My old church was amazing to and they helped me through some really rough times in my life but I never felt like I was my ‘own person’ there.  Everything I did was with my friends and sometimes I was afraid to do anything without a friend(s) doing it with me.  At my new church, maybe because it’s so much smaller, I’m definitely my own person and do things without needing to have someone do them with me (if that makes any sense).

I’ve been thinking about how I would love to put together a bulletin for Sunday services so they have something to hand out to people Sunday mornings and I was so excited when Sunday morning they announced they were looking for someone to start putting a bulletin together (thanks God!).  So I’ll be volunteering my time and printing services (lol) to putting together a bulletin.  It’s gonna take some time and lots of tweaking especially since I’ve never done anything like a bulletin before and of course I want to make it extra cool – LOL!

Life: Life is great! God is amazing! Caleb is good, I’m good. Life is just all around great! My brother’s wedding is coming up in just 2 short weeks! The big day is Saturday September 8th! I can’t believe that my baby brother (he’s 22) is getting married. It seems like just yesterday I was babysitting him and my sister and changing his diaper! I can’t believe he’s 22 now and gonna be a husband! Wowsers.