2010 Highlight Reel

Blake here, and being the good journalist that I am - writing the first draft of history and all - I thought our blog readers should know what's going in the Farmer history books for 2010. I have trisected our lives into work, home and family. We start with our professional lives.

Mo gave Lipscomb about 15% more of her life when she said, "yes, I'll be a cheerleading coach."

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I cannot complain, but I will say I have sacrificed some home cooked meals so Lipscomb's basketball cheerleaders could have appropriate adult supervision. I expect there will be many more fast food nights, but they are totally worth it. I expect Moriah to come home from long hours at basketball games complaining about a 12 hour day. But more often than not she's in a great mood and laughing about something one of her girls has said/done. Teenagers are weird. Her girls love her, and she is definitely doing God's work.

I have not taken on any new responsibilities at WPLN, but my job continues to bring new challenges. Probably the most memorable week of my professional career so far was when it started raining the first weekend in May and didn't stop until more than 15 inches fell, turning Nashville into a muddy swimming pool.

I snapped this photo downtown, but that's not where the stories were. National media outlets - NPR included - made a big deal about the Opry House and Country Music Hall of Fame being underwater. And those were crazy sites, but it was the families who lost everything who really needed some media attention. Remember, most of these 10,000 homes didn't have flood insurance.

I was doing interviews and filing stories nationally for All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace and The Takeaway. I would get up at 4 am, appear on a show from my home office, then go out the door with my recorder to talk to people dealing with the worst flood this city has seen in decades.

I was working out of my house because it wasn't safe to be at our studios in MetroCenter, which is essentially a floodplain protected by a levy, which was leaking. Crazy time.

Home

Did our house flood? No. We were actually laying the tile floor in our new kitchen when it started raining. The worst we got was about three inches of water in our crawl space, and while it wasn't fun to bellycrawl through that mess to hook up our new refrigerator's water line, I'm having a little trouble complaining.

On the home front, the kitchen renovations are the headline. We ripped everything out in mid-April.

Dad and I redid all the electrical work and installed recessed lighting. I laid the backerboard, and a buddy helped me put down tile (while Nashville was flooding). We let trained professionals do most of the rest of the work. While I was a little irritated at the total price tag, I'm glad we went all the way.

There was some sad news in the neighborhood. We lost our dear friends, the Lipscombs.

Justin and Katie did not die, but they did move. We were neighbors for nearly two years. And while I thought we would eventually get tired of having friends next door, we never did. The only advantage to having them gone is that we don't do as much slipping down the little hill between our houses any more. We wore out a path between 321 and 323 Binkley Drive - borrowing tools, ingredients and vacuum cleaners.

Fortunately, they have bought a house just 2.4 miles away, so we're handling the move pretty well.

Family

How about burying the lede? Ok. We became Aunt Moey and Uncle Blake.

Brady Lynn Williams was born February 2nd.

It's been so fun to watch Bevin (Moriah's sister) and John come into parenthood. They are charting a course for the rest of us to follow.

While we don't get to see her face in person as much as we'd like, Brady enjoys plenty of attention. You should see Moriah's dad. I think he's obsessed with his grand daughter, and I guess you can't say that's a bad thing.

In other Fort Worth family news, Les (Moriah's dad) kicked cancer where the sun don't shine.

We took our annual trip to Lake Ouachita, which was a highlight of the summer. Moriah's family came to Nashville and spent some time with us too. We realized our house is not built for a family of eight. That's good to learn.

Thanksgiving was spent with the Steward's - a first. In our 5.5 years of marriage, we've always done Christmas in Fort Worth. This year, it was a Nashville Christmas. It even snowed.

Moriah is the best gift receiver. Her reactions kill.

So how do you put a bow on 2010? Perhaps by talking about what's to come in 2011. We're going on our first cruise. We have a wedding in the family (Jimily). Whatever else happens will just be gravy.

We rarely stop to count our blessings. Perhaps that's because there are too many to number. Life is beyond good.

-Blake

P.S. Somehow Maverick didn't make it in this post. He's still the love of our lives. He's had a hard time adjusting to the loss of our neighbors too (Maybel), but he still gets to visit his girlfriend from time to time.

Weekend RE-port - guest post

It was a RE-laxing weekend around the Farmer house since we were paid a visit by Josh Pavlik. If you haven't kept up with Pav since college, his word of choice is "Re." This is "Re." That's "Re." The whole thing is RE-tarded unless you just give in and have fun with it too. But Pav can't seem to have enough RE time, hence the visit to West End's REBAR. Actually, there was no one there Saturday afternoon, so we just took a picture and went next door to watch college football. 

 

Pav is one of those guys who just won't let a friendship fizzle. He's one of my only friends who doesn't live in Nashville who still calls me on a regular basis just to check in. (The phone call typically originates in Houston, not Nashville. I'm just not a big phone person) Pav always asks how Moriah's doing and genuinely wants to know what's up. He's really quite thoughtful.

But these Nashville visits, which have become more regular, have ulterior motives - to get near VY. Pav is the craziest Vince Young fan I've ever met. Pav doesn't hold VY on a pedestal; he built a pedestal for the the Titans' on-again, off-again QB. I frequently get the random text message that looks like this: "VY till I DDDDIIIIIEEEEE!!!"

Given his unwavering devotion to a legendary Texas Longhorn, Pav was not impressed with the Titans game Sunday. Vince couldn't get much going. And when Kerry Collins took over, Pav had to leave our seats, at least for the offensive series. It really makes me laugh, but it's no joke to Pav. He had some choice words for head coach Jeff Fisher, though I'm pretty sure they feel on deaf ears. 

Pav is passionate. 

There will be more visits this year since Pav and I purchases season tix to the Titans, but something tells me we won't have the same frequency of face time if VY gets benched. 

-Blake

I L-O-V-E Better After!!

Thanks to my friend Jill H. I have a new obsession. Better After. Its a blog solely dedicated to the before and afters of furniture and room redos. There's not a lot of commentary, just great before and after pictures. Our house is 48 years old and needed some updates when we moved in. We weren't able to do a ton at first but have really been making up for lost time this past year. We remodeled the bathroom the summer of 2009 then the kitchen this summer. Some of the redos on the blog are really extravagant and some aren't. You can submit pictures of your Before and Afters and she decides whether or not she wants to feature you. I submitted pictures of both the bathroom and kitchen and she featured the bathroom yesterday. I was excited (even though it's silly). I just thought those of you who like design related stuff might like this. Its just a really great resource!

I'm in LOVE...

I've been shopping at Kroger (I kindly refer to it as Crappy Kroger) for over 5 years. It's really close to our house and they always have everything I need. The guy at the self-checkout line always speaks to me and is really friendly... Probably because I'm in there like every day. I'm not a once a week shopper, more like a "shop for every meal" kind of shopper.

Sunday after church and lunch I went up to my classroom to work. Blake volunteered to make dinner while I was gone. He (of course) had to go to the grocery in order to make dinner and he chose to go to Publix. (For those of you in TX, it's pronounced like "pub." Blake's likes to say it with a long "u" sound and it annoys me to no end!) He enjoyed his  shopping experience so much, he "authorized" me to grocery shop at Publix. Publix is a little more expensive than Kroger, but SOOO worth the few extra minutes in the car and a few extra dollars on the bill!

Publix is like the Chick-Fil-A of grocery stores. The store is super clean, the people are so nice, and the items on the shelves are always perfectly aligned. I mean, I can't help but love this store. The packaging of their Publix brand items is nice looking too! I would hardly every buy Kroger brand items because I hated their packaging (I'm a diva, I know!) but now I'm all about buying the store brand! How can you not love the solid color bands with a single polka dot??

All this "love" talk reminded me of something that Blake and I used to do when we were dating... At ACU it was super easy to send mail to anyone who lived on campus. (I think I spend my entire fall semester of Bible writing notes to people to put in the mail.) Later in our relationship, probably Junior and Senior year, Blake and I wrote a lot of notes to each other. Not because we never saw each other but because that's what everyone did. Somehow we got started on this saying, "I love you more than you love {insert something that the other person really loves}!" Yes, I know it sounds cheesy now, but it was really sweet.

All that to say... I love Publix more than Blake loves picking his nose. If you are friends with Blake on Facebook you know what this is referring to!

Happy Thursday!

I got a little bored...

I'm filling in for one of the administrative assistants at school this week while she's on vacation. Monday and Tuesday were pretty busy (not to mention I took a pretty long lunch on Monday) but today has been super slow. I've sat on Facebook waiting for people to update their status (I'm aware that is totally lame), I've looked at the weather countless time and I've looked at all the blogs I read (through Google Reader) to see if any of them had been redesigned. Then I looked at my own blog and just about barfed. It's the homepage on our home computer (probably the reason for so many hits). I hardly ever use that computer anymore so it had been a while since since I'd seen the actual blog. I used to redesign the blog all the time... that was before my job took up so much of my time. I'm grateful for my job and I like that it keeps me really busy... that just means that the poor ol' blog has suffered.

So, here it is... our (and by "Our" I mean "My") new blog. It's kind of like my new kitchen. Grey and white with little hints of green. If you read this blog through Google Reader, hop on over to the actual blog to see what I spent my morning doing. Is that begging for compliments, or what? I know I'm a brat, I get told that a lot.

I hate posting something without a picture... So here's one of me, my dad and Bevin at my cousin's wedding in San Antonio earlier this summer. I actually acted as the wedding photographer for my first ever (probably last, too)

Anyway, hope everyone's last few days of summer are stellar!

Vacation...

Used to consist of taking thousands of pictures of Blake and the other boys wakeboarding and skiing. This year I took thousands (okay, maybe not thousands, hundreds for sure) of two darling babies. This is Brady my niece. How can you not want to just sit around and take pictures of her. She is so stinking adorable!

More on the family vacay later.
- Mo

My Love Affair With Books...

I've always loved to read. I remember finally being able to "check out" books from my Kindergarten teacher's library and loved taking them home to read with my mom. Not only do I love to read, but I'm somewhat of a speed reader. I blame that on all the years of TAAS testing that reinforced Reading Comprehension Skills. Blake thinks that I read so fast that I miss all the details, but that isn't the case. I'm just a fast reader and he isn't. :-)

Katie and I went to see Eclipse last Thursday (a matinee is now $7.50... when did that happen?) and we saw the preview for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It got me really excited to see the movies, it seems like it's bee forever since one came out. Seeing the preview reminded me of how sad I was when I finished the last book. I felt like a part of my life was over. I know that sounds drastic, but I kind of felt like the characters in the books were my buddies. I cared about what happened to them and didn't want to see their stories end.

That made me think about all the books I've really enjoyed reading through the years. (This blog post is starting to sound like "If you give a Mouse a Cookie..." where one thought leads to the next with no end in sight.) I'm not much of an academic reader. I like to stick with good books that are fun and easy to read. I recently decided that I need to read through the "Suggested High School Reading" list, but that's another story. I've also realized that I LOVE books in a series. I almost always want more of the story at the end of the book, so a series of books works really well for me. I love the character development and how you really get to know everything about the world that the characters live in.

The first series I really loved was "Little House on the Prairie." I don't really remember when I started reading them, but I do remember when I finished the last one and kept hoping that she'd write another. I loved Laura, Ma, and Pa like they were my family. Sometimes I even found myself dreaming of living on a farm on the prairie. If you know me at all you know that is not something I would ever even consider, but that's how much I loved those books. They made me want to live in the middle of nowhere.

I've moved on to more sophisticated books since then (read with sarcasm): The Shopaholic Books, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Twilight Saga, The Mark of the Lion series, Abram's Daughters... I'm sure there are more that I'm missing but that's not really important. I'm just saying that I love to read and I'm grateful that my sister-in-law is a Young Adult Librarian because she always has a list of good books for me to read!

We're going to the lake next week and I'm going to have to go to the library to stock up on books to keep me busy while lounging by the pool...

Only a few more weeks of summer left. I'm trying not to get depressed. Just kidding. But seriously, "Summer Moey" is a lot more fun that "School-Year Moey."

Better late than never, right?

Well, it's officially been forever since I've blogged. This semester was crazy busy so I've been enjoying my summer time off. The time has flown by and so much has happened. There is no way I can catch up so I'm just going to start from today and move forward. :-) We recently remodeled our kitchen and I love every inch of it! Here are a few pictures...

This is what the kitchen looked like after we painted the cabinets, trim and walls over 3 years ago:

This is what the new kitchen looks like:


Here are a few more pictures:


Like I said before, I love every inch of the kitchen. It took longer than we originally thought it would (remodeling always does) but we are lucky enough to have great friends who live next door. Katie let me use her kitchen whenever I needed and fed us dinner too many times to count. They really were a blessing during the remodel. The light over the sink might be one of my favorite things in the kitchen. Blake doesn't really like it but he's a good husband so he let me use it anyway. This light hung in my grandparent's bedroom for somewhere around 40-50 years. It's something that I will always associate with them. I'm not normally a sentimental person but it means the world to me to have this light fixture in my kitchen.

Not only were the Lipscombs a God-send during this process but Blake's dad, Richard, helped out a ton, too. Richard and Blake did all of the electrical work in the kitchen. Blake's dad got his electrician's license when he and Sharon remodeled their house almost 30 years ago. Richard taught Blake all sorts of stuff about electricity and Blake even put in the recessed lights all by himself! I have a ton more pictures but this pretty much gives you the idea. If you're in Nashville you can stop by and see it for yourself! We'd love to have you!

Well... Hopefully I'll be a better blogger this school year! Here's to my renewed interest in blogging...

Introducing...

Blake and I were finally able to go meet Miss Brady Lynn last weekend. We left early (and by early I mean 3:15am) and got to Texas shortly after 1:30 Friday afternoon. We even made a pit-stop in Little Rock to drop my friend Cheryl off to spend the weekend with her daughter. We went straight to Bevin and John's house to meet our sweet niece. I held Brady for a while while Blake and Maverick went for a run. After about an hour of relaxing (for me) Blake and John started loading up a moving truck full of their furniture. Let me go back a bit...

Patmommy and Granddad (my mom's parents, also known as PMGD) decided on Saturday (two weeks ago tomorrow) that they were ready to move into a retirement home. Granddad didn't feel comfortable moving until their house sold but there was an apartment available in the community where they wanted to move. Bevin and John needed to be out of their house by March 1st... then my mom came up with a great idea. PMDG put down a deposit on their new place, Mom started packing up PMGD's house and Bevin and John packed up their own house. All last weekend was spent deciding what to take and give away, taking things to the Crowley House of Hope, and splitting up everything that we all wanted. It was quite the tiring weekend. Bevin and John have bee staying with Mom and Dad for the past week while things were being wrapped up at PMGD's house. They are having the carpets cleaned at PMGD's house tomorrow, so hopefully Bevin and John will be able to get into their new house on Sunday... hopefully.

So, Bevin moved out of her house and got back into her pre-pregnancy skinny jeans (barf) all within two weeks of giving birth to her sweet baby girl. Well... I'm pretty sure John did most of the moving but that is beside the point.

I'm headed back to Texas for my spring break in two weeks. I'm driving and it's the first time I've ever made the drive by myself. I'll leave on Saturday and drive back on Thursday. Channing is actually driving back with me and then flying back on Saturday night... she has spring break that week, too.

I haven't posted anything in forever... I realize that. I've decided just to move on and pretend like I never missed the first two months of this year. It's been a great two months. I turned 27, had a GREAT Zumba birthday party, had 5 snow days, went to a super fun 70's Murder Mystery party, had a really big Super Bowl Party, got a new rug for the living room, etc, etc, etc. Anyway... Hopefully I can be better about posting. We'll see...

An open letter on Valentine's Day

Moriah and I basically swore off Valentine's Day in college, mostly because it seems silly to make up a day to give one another little trinkets that probably don't mean a whole lot. Teddy bears, boxers, roses, candy - these are all good things, but perhaps a waste of money at times.

That said, I'm feeling a little bit guilty for not showering Moriah with SOME sort of gift this Valentine's Day. So, how about a story?

Moriah didn't remember this until I reminded her, but we first met in the lobby of Gardner dorm at ACU. She was helping conduct Sing Song tryouts. Not sure how she volunteered for that job, seeing as how it took me several years to get her to sing in front of me. But she was there, perhaps as a favor to an old friend from camp Blue Haven (who shall go unnamed here) who had a love interest in Moriah that was never reciprocated.

In those days, Moriah had a different style about her. She wore long, hooded sweaters and high, high heels. Pointy boots were her signature. Freshman Mo also carried her Nokia cell phone where it's flashing case could be seen by all. If she started blowing up, everyone around her knew it.

Moriah had many suiters that year. I was but one, who was cast off at first. There were other boys waiting in the wings. But persistence pays, and after a summer of random late-night phone calls, Moriah granted a second-first date, and history was made.

I recall my roommate at the time, Jeff Giddens, asking me soon after Moriah and I started dating, "You want to marry her, don't you?"

"I think I do," I replied.

But did Moriah also want to marry me? While somewhat affectionate, she was much better and being chased than doing any chasing herself. Sealing the deal was her summer in Nashville. Instead of going home and working at her church as she has always done during the summer, she applied for an internship at Otter Creek, which is now our church home. She spent the summer living near me instead of close to home.

At the end of that summer, I made the trip to Draper's to pick out some jewelry. Once I had it in hand, that diamond ring burned a hole straight through my pocket. I thought about waiting a month or two into school, but the engagement had to happen ASAP. So, the Sunday before Labor Day, 2004, I read Moriah a poem I'd written for her (out of character, for sure) and got down on one knee. She said yes, through tears. Of course in those days, she was always crying about something. Her overactive tear ducts confused many people at times. She's just as likely to cry about something funny as something sad or hurtful.

Five and a half years later, Moriah has grown up a lot, leaving me behind to be the immature one. She's gotten herself a graduate degree in teaching. She lives 700 miles from what she called "home" for 18 years. And she's the half of this duo who makes sure casseroles are taken to the young family, showers are thrown for the new mom and gifts are given to husband who struggles with appreciation.

Like so many people do, I love Moriah. Happy Valentine's Day.

To Do Lists

I'm in the car somewhere between Memphis and Jackson and I've been working on my to-do list for the rest of the week. I've been living my life based off of to-do lists lately. I make them at school on a yellow notepad and have a really hard time remembering to take my little yellow notepad home with me. I recently downloaded a free app for my phone that helps me keep up with all the items on my to-do list. Before Christmas the list consisted of shopping, making out finals, grading projects, packing for Texas, etc. Now it's made up of looking over my curriculum for this semester, putting away Christmas decorations, organizing wrapping paper/closets, etc. Here is a screen shot of my current to-do list...



Maybe I should make a "to-do list" for all my New Years Resolutions that I'm NOT going to give up on this year. More on that later. :)

No more radiation and...

My dad is completely finished with his radiation treatments. PRAISE THE LORD!! He has been such a trooper. He has blisters inside his mouth and on his neck, face and ears. Everything he eats tastes like metal and he barely weighs more than me... But he's only going to get better from this point on. It's been hard to see my dad not acting like himself. I know it's been hard on the rest of my family for the past two months, too. Everyone is exhausted. My Granddad was released from the hospital Saturday night and taken to a rehab facility. Hopefully he will continue to get stronger so he can go home in the next couple of weeks.

Christmas is almost here and I'm ready for Blake to be here, too. I've been busy but I'm really ready for him and Maverick to be here. Please keep my dad (and rest of the family) in your prayers. Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas

Thanksgiving Day and a Much Needed Break

Day two started out semi-early. We left the hotel at 7:30 to grab a spot to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. We wandered around for a bit and found a great spot... probably one of the last ones. :-) The weather was great, kind of chilly but not wet at all. Great for taking pictures! The parade was excellent! So much better than seeing the balloons blown up under nets in the rain the night before. After the parade, Jim, Emily, Grant, Megan, Blake and I went to Bryant Park to sit and eat a snack. I don't have any pictures from Bryant Park in the collage. We ate Thanksgiving dinner at Metrazur in Grand Central Station. It was a beautiful place to eat and the food was d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s. I didn't even eat turkey and dressing on Thanksgiving but the Prime Rib was amazing. After dinner we got on the subway and headed to Queens to hang out at Emily's apartment for the night. (We ate dinner at 3:30.) Sharon and I were the only ones who had seen Emily's apartment before so it was fun for everyone to see where Em spends her time away from the library. We played Wii and Rockband for several hours. Thanksgiving day was great.

I give my first final exam tomorrow morning and another on Thursday morning. This semester has taken a toll on me. I'm exhausted. Hopefully I'll be a better teacher next semester. Not that I was a bad teacher, I just think with one semester under my belt I'll be more prepared, know better how the kids will act, what they are capable of, etc. Needless to say, I'm ready for a two week break. I'm leaving for Texas on Thursday after school. I'm heading to Texas to spend a week with my family before Christmas. I'm flying and Blake will drive in with Mavy on Christmas Eve. Please pray for my dad over the next couple of days. He has his last chemo treatment tomorrow and the first one was really rough on him. If you could pray for his peace and healing it would be much appreciated! Thank you!

I'm thankful for...

The four wonderful days I got to spend in New York City with the Farmer family. This is a little taste of Day One...



We got in to NYC about 10:15 local time. Jemily (Jim and Emily) met us at the airport and escorted us to our hotel in Chelsea. Richard and Sharon went to bed as soon as we got to the hotel and Gregan (Grant and Megan) and Blake and I went to get a bite to eat. We got sandwiches and pizza at midnight in some random deli. Very New York. We slept in a little the next morning and walked to Grenwich Village and then had lunch at the World Famous Katz deli. It was quite delicious. We had a one of those waiters who told you what you wanted like, "You come all the way to NY and order chicken salad? You don't want chicken salad you want the pastrami. You're having pastrami." It was really funny. Probably only because he didn't tell me what to have. After lunch we walked through China Town (I didn't buy anything) and then headed back to the hotel to rest before dinner and the show. We had dinner at Rosie O'Grady's. The food was good but our server was terrible. I don't remember if he got a tip or not but he definitely shouldn't have. He was that bad. We then headed over to Jersey Boys and it was wonderful! I knew every single song and had to try really hard not to sing along. It wasn't "Wicked" but it was still great! After the show we had dessert at Roxy and then took pictures in Time Square. It was an exhausting first day but SUPER fun! I'll post pictures of our Thanksgiving Day activities later this week. I'm sure you're on pins and needles!!

Nashville '09

I was beyond happy to host my college friends for our Annual Girls Weekend... Nashville '09. I was so happy that they all wanted to and were able to make it for a long weekend. They came up Thursday night and left Sunday afternoon. Katie was gracious enough to let us borrow her Honda Pilot with the 3rd row of seats so we could all ride around town together. This is what our weekend consisted of... Rocking out to Miley Cyrus, staying up late, Grey's Anatomy, The Office, Sleeping late, breakfast casserole & biscuits, early morning Sonic runs, left overs for lunch, walking at Radnor, meeting a semi-creepy old man while walking at Radnor, going to the DLHS pep rally, seeing the Lipscomb Campus, Green Hills mall, the Hill Center in Green Hills, Tex Mex lasagna, sopapilla cheesecake, 3 hour dance party, walk around Caldwell Hall, seeing east Nashville, Bicentennial Mall, the Farmer's Market, t-shirt shopping downtown, Southern Bred for dinner, going to Otter Creek for Church, Five Guys Burgers and Fries...

We had a great weekend! I can't wait for Vegas '010. Yes, I know that looks weird, that's just what we've been calling it. Happy Thanksgiving! The WHOLE Farmer fam is leaving for NYC today at 6pm!! I'm so excited!!

Way Overdue...

It has bee WAY too long since I've blogged and I've neglected all the fun things we've done recently. Well, this post isn't recent at all but I've yet to blog about it.

Mom, Dad, Dwayne and Glenda came to Nashville the last weekend in September and we had a blast! We picked them up at the airport around 9 am Saturday morning and headed straight out to Loveless Cafe... it was delicious. It never seems to disappoint. We drove around Belle Meade, saw my classroom at Lipscomb, got half price drinks at Sonic, visited the Parthenon, ate Texas Caviar, went to the Wild Horse Saloon for dinner and {some} dancing, went to church, ate lunch at Southern Bred, shopped a little, and had a delicious dinner at Blake's parents' house. It was a wonderful weekend and I can't wait until they are able to visit again. It probably won't be very soon though. Both my parents and Dwayne and Glenda are expecting their first grandchild in February. Bevin and John are expecting a girl and Craig and Deidre are expecting a boy... Just two weeks apart. These two couples are best friends and I think their children might already be betrothed. :-) Hopefully I will manage to catch up on my blogging this week.

- For those of you who have asked about my dad, he's doing okay. He started chemotherapy and radiation today. He's doing three rounds of chemo and seven weeks (5 days a week) of radiation. I would appreciate prayers for Dad and Mom throughout the next several months. I did just get a text from my mom saying that Dad is doing okay today. Hopefully he won't be too sick throughout this whole process. Thank you for keeping him in your prayers.

Prayers

I've got a favor to ask. No... I don't ever blog during the school day, much less during chapel, but I've got a favor to ask. My dad is having surgery today at 2:30pm to remove a mass from his jaw. They will do a biopsy after it is removed. I'm humbly asking for your prayers. Please pray for a successful surgery, a speedy recovery and no bad news from the biopsy. Also, I try to be a big girl about these things buts it's bothering me that I can't be there with him and the rest of my family. Thank you for your prayers in advance.


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Once again...

I'm at play practice again with Maverick. For those of you who don't know, Maverick is "starring" as Sandy in David Lipscomb Middle School's production of Annie. He is only in two sceens (which is a good thing). Hopefully he will figure out what he is supposed to do by Friday (his first real performance). I'm mostly just excited that I will finally have a real, legitimate reason to take Mavy to school with me. Friday the cast is performing for the 4th and 5th graders and the show is at 1pm... Which means that Mavy will spend all day at school with me. I'm pretty pumped. The kids in the play love him and I'm sure the kids I have in class will be no different. I probably won't plan anything for Friday... We'll probably just have a play day with Maverick... Just kidding!!





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Finally...

YAY!!! I'm officially finished with Grad School.
(I've been unofficially finished since July 31)