I love the new templates that I found courtesy of a friend's blog that have made my blog look so cute and easy to change. I thought I would be all lovey-dovey for Valentines Day and haven't written a thing since. HA!!!
It's been quite the week and a bit.
Bryce and I had a fun Valentines Day and enjoyed hanging out with our kids despite having an emotionally challenging day at work for both of us. The yummy steak dinner seemed to fill in some of those empty spaces. We really enjoy Valentine's Day because it is a great day to just be reminded of what is important in life. For us we also love Valentine's Day because it is the beginning of our love story and life together.
26 years ago on February 16th, Bryce gave me a Valentine's Day card and asked me to be his girlfriend....the rest is history. We never broke up and have been together since that day. Pretty awesome if you ask me!!! :) We've certainly had some dark days in there, but have learned so much about perseverance, patience and cooperation as we've allowed the other person to grow up (in my case), mature (in both our cases) and accept each other's personalities flaws and all. Exciting!!
Well, the week continued and wasn't a great one with some stuff to sort out at work, but we did it and it has been fine. We had a great weekend and were looking forward to this week...then yesterday happened.
This is the historic Christchurch Cathedral - I cried when I saw
this. Unfortunately there were people inside who died.
For those of you who don't live in NZ you might not have heard that the second largest city in NZ, Christchurch had a big earthquake yesterday almost 6 months after the last big earthquake. The last one damaged property, but no loss of life. This one is so different....last count 75 people have died. My heart hurts for that poor city and those poor people. We have a lot of people we know who live there and fortunately they are all safe, but still living in atrocious conditions and in such strain and stress.
An office building that had 200 people in it. It is
unbelievable the destruction that has happened
and the loss of life in just this one building.
We are far away from Christchurch, but because NZ is a small nation, we're all grieving together and glued to our TVs as we see the latest pictures of destruction, of death and most wonderful, rescues!!! Please pray for this city, but pray that this tragedy is used to reach a nation of people who have kind of forgotten about God!
Like I said....Valentines was so long ago it seems as so much has happened in between. edit
It's a testimony to how hectic life has been over the last two weeks that I haven't written on here. So much as gone on since my dad left.
We had a great last week with Mom, but it was interspersed with getting kids into school, swapping school uniforms, parent/teacher interviews, first days of school and the list goes on. The house looked like a BOMB hit it during the last couple of days of her visit. Just had no time to get it tidy and Mom was packing....all over the house. HA!!
As always...I hate saying goodbye!!! Waaaay too many in my life, but you do get kind of used to it. For the couple of days leading up to Mom leaving I would have a few good cries at night and the day or so after she left. Seems to be the regular pattern. I guess we just feel so sad about all the every day life things we miss about each other. Events, birthdays, holidays and more......
On the flipside of it all, we both agreed that it is good to get back to normal life. Back to our homes, our routines and our lives....we just wish we lived down the street from each other like we used to. I have enjoyed moving back into my bedroom and just having a tidier house because there are less people living here and the kids are in school again. But I always miss my mommy!!!
School has started well for the kids....I was so nervous about my son's new school, but he has done great thus far. His teacher's quite strict, but that's good for him. Laura's awesome as always!!
Not only has school started, but it's back to work, back to after-school activities and learning a new accounting package for HTL. Bryce is also spending more of his time at HTL to raise funds and plan for the future.
Today I had 3 hours in my house ALL by myself....I reckon that hasn't happened since Dec 9th when Laura finished school for the year. It was BLISS!!!! I was able to just relax, do some work and take a very brief nap and my hubby cooked dinner...now that was TRUE BLISS and a rarity. :)
I do wonder how we manage to get it all done and am wondering if I will survive the craziness that my schedule brings sometimes. It's crazy because I invest my life in people, my kids and my ministry so that makes it hard to "cut" things out. Will have to figure that out soon so I don't go nutso this year.edit
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I've been married for 32 years to the love of my life and we have two awesome adult kids and a fantastic son-in-law. Big new adventure moving to Texas from New Zealand in February 2021
