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Well we just had our preschool board meeting this morning and it has been made official.  Sometime this summer I'm planning to move back to Illinois.  I actually started praying about it in Septmember.  I was really starting to feel like after this school year, I would be done.  I asked God for a small sign.  I said I didn't need anything huge, just a little something to reassure me that what I was thinking was from him and was the right thing.  I even asked specifically to be shown a verse about going home.  November 1 I was sitting in church.  It was our homecoming weekend and I was looking around at everyone, wondering if next homecoming I would still be living here of if I would be there as a visitor.  The minister got up and said we were going to read out of Mark 5.  So I opened up my Bible and looked down to see verse 19 which says "Go home to thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee and hath had compassion on thee."  I know some people will argue over "signs" and whether we should or shouldn't ask for them.  But for me, I like having something that reassures that the decisions I make are directed by the Lord.  Reading a verse like that was exactly what I had asked for and since that day I have not once doubted that making plans to move to IL is the right thing to do.  I realize things could change.  Two years ago I said I was going to move back but due to a few different circumstances, I ended up staying.  And that was perfectly fine with me.  I'm glad I had two more years here.  I will miss it so much when I'm gone, but there are things I look forward to- mostly living close to my family again.  I'm planning to move sometime this summer, most likely towards the end of July.
Phew.  I'm so glad I can tell people freely now.  I've been trying to keep in a little hush hush until the board meeting just for the sake of waiting until it was official.  But now you all know.  And that's all I have to say about that:)

Suprise Visitors!

This afternoon as I was getting ready to go back to work after my break, there was a knock at my door.  I opened it to find my great unlce Al and his wife, Melba on my doorstep.  They were on the way home from Florida and decided to just drop in and say hi.  I've always liked my uncle Al so it was really fun.  Him and Melba just got married this past July.  It's the second marriage for both of them.  They were so fun to sit and talk to for awhile and I enjoyed getting to know her a little better. 

Conversation this afternoon-
Me: So, do you have a condo down there?
Al: I married one!

He's quirky.  And sweet. 

It's not the greatest of pictures but Cassie was trying to take it while she was on the phone and all the kids were inside waiting to get fed snack so we just didn't try for perfection this time.

Flop Of A Week

Last weekend I was supposed to have some friends down to visit.  They cancelled for a number of reasons.  This weekend I was supposed to go down to Florida for a couple days.  We cancelled for a couple different reasons.  I have a gift certificate for a massage that I was going to redeem tonight after work.  They called and the massage therapist is sick and had to cancel.  This is all during the time when Cassie and the Edelmans are in Mexico and I really would love to be with them.  Really now- what's next???

In Honor Of...

Each year since I've moved down here my old roommate and awesome friend, Bekah, has gotten a group together to come visit for the weekend.  This weekend was supposed to be when people came but for a variety of different reasons ended up cacelling.  So I just thinking back to the past few years when they would come.  Each year has its own reasons to make me smile.  If things would have gone as planned, I would probably be posting about everything we did this weekend.  But since things changed and the last couple days have consisted of lots of laundry and cleaning, I was remembering years past.  So in honor of those years.......

The first year was kind of a thrown together group who didn't necessarily know each other that well.  But it turned out to be so fun and we laughed more than we talked.  Mark took us flying and then we went to a really southern restaurant before coming back to my house for games and dessert.

The second year was fun too.  Not quite as many laughs as the first year, possibly because there were some more reserved people in the group?  Another kind of random, thrown together group but still a good time.  We went to the US Space and Rocket center over in Huntsville where we watched an IMAX movie about Hurricane Katrina.  It was dumb.  We still joke about the time and money wasted on it.  I think at least half the group fell asleep during it.  Then we did the typical supper and games evening before the boys left my house and went to bed.  Then Beks, Katrina and myself got ahold of some microphones we had in the Fellowship Hall (which is attatched to my house), figured out how to turn on the speakers, and had a little concert for ourselves:)

Then there was last year.  The infamous Waffle House trip where a fight nearly broke out, cops were called, they ran out of dishes..... oh the memories.  It was also a lot bigger group than the first two years.  I think I'd have to say it was my favorite one out of the three.  If you're justy dying to know more about it, you can read about it here.

So, yes, I was bummed that it didn't work out this weekend but hopefully we'll be able to reschedule.   And really, what could be more fun than spending my weekend doing laundry and cleaning?

Weekend Fun

Well this past weekend was packed with lots of good family and friends time.  Unfortunately I did not get a whole lot of that time on camera.  A couple things I did, though.  Like, Saturday night I walked into my parents house after having a girls night with my cousins Angie, Erin and Lydia.  I heard the melodioc strains of a song that I didn't recognize as one my parents listened to on a regular basis.  Then I went upstairs to see this contraption.

No wonder I didn't recognize it- it was one of their old records!  But, now, thanks to this nifty machine, I have my old Bullfrogs and Butterflies record on a CD!  That I listened to on the way home:)  I have other old records on a CD now too but that one was my favorite and I still remembered most of the songs from when I was little!

Saturday before our girls night officially started, I went into Angie and Robey's house for supper.  I got there just in time to help give Abel his bath.  I love the little man!

He's so cute I just want to eat him!!

Other fun and excitement that I didn't get pictures of included lunch at Doc's Diner, working out with Erin at Mo's on Main (the new fitness center in Roanoke), Doug and Tricia's wedding/reception, going back to Gridley Sunday night to spend some quality time with my girlfriends and having Monday off so I could spend the night Sunday night.  What a blessing:)