Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Mission Mania

Hello again, hello.

What a busy summer it has been! This has been our schedule:

June 11 - 21 Jim in Honduras; Paula home
July 7 - 13: Jim and Paula in Mississippi
July 14 - 21: Jim home; Paula in Mississippi
July 22 - 28: Jim in Worcester; Paula home
July 29 - 4: Jim AND Paula home together ... will they survive?
Aug 5 - 6: Jim in Vermont; Paula home
Aug 6 - 10: Jim home; Paula in Worcester
Aug 10 - 12: A much needed weekend away for Jim and Paula at CampAgna
Aug 17 - 19: Jim home; Paula away with family

add in 6 Flags trips, Martha's Vineyard trips, cookouts and such and then, my friends, the summer is nearly over! How does this happen?!?! I think summer should be 4 months long ... in fact, I am deeming September as Summer extension. Sure the kids go back to school, but does that mean that summer is over for us overworked youth ministers? NO! (I'll let you know how that goes...)

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Where has the time gone...

I guess Lent is over ... as is the Easter Season ... and Pentecost ... and spring for that matter. I think I will save us all and not post a "catch up" post. Shall we begin anew?

Ahhh - Fourth of July - one of my favorite holidays. We always go to Danvers for the Morin cookout / firework extravaganza on the 3rd. This year was a smaller group but had much fun in spite. The fireworks display had a major hiccup in the middle, but that allowed me a nap so all's well that ends well.

The fourth itself was spent in Abington and we watched the Boston fireworks on TV - better than being there since it was pouring in Boston. Aside from a little incident whereby my right big toe found itself slammed into my husband's rock hard sneaker thereby snapping my toenail completely off it's bed and blood to pour out of the top of the nail, pretty much a laid back kind of day. Also, I napped again during the fireworks.

Harry Potter update: I am 1/2 way through book 2 in my quest to read all of them again in time for the release on July 21st... it is not looking too promising. I will have to buy the paperbacks of the later books so that they will fit in my carry-on... hopefully I can squiirel away some time every day in Mississippi to read.

Well that is all for now. Thanks for being faithful and checking back in!