Thursday WLS Express-soggy edition
Alissa....BTDT with the I'm bored thing. My kids no longer say that to me as they know my answer will be: "I am not responsible for YOUR fun. But, if you want me to be, I'm quite sure I can find plenty of chores for you to do to keep you busy and entertained." Trust me, only took putting them to work a couple of times for the "I'm boreds" to stop. :)
Susan 
Well, it's soggy here in River Oaks too! I'm afraid to go out and look at my garden. Therese didn't take care of it while I was gone so it looks like some of it has gone to pot! Dang it. I knew I shouldn't have left. Oh well. I did get two ripe tomatoes off it last night before the storm and a bunch of cherry tomatoes. Didn't get to look much more because it started raining on me!!
And I didn't get much sleep because of the storms rolling through all night and the dogs not liking the storms rolling through! Better take some Energy with me today. I'm gonig to need it!!
Not much going on with me for now. Guess I'll take a shower and get to work!! Love ya!
And I didn't get much sleep because of the storms rolling through all night and the dogs not liking the storms rolling through! Better take some Energy with me today. I'm gonig to need it!!
Not much going on with me for now. Guess I'll take a shower and get to work!! Love ya!
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ROFL! I was going to ask about the "going to pot" thing too.......it's that "child of the 60's" mentality!!!
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I read that as you were "growing pot"
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still raining here in plano - and lightening and thunder - baby girl was REAL UNimpressed with thunder and lightining close enough to shake the house last night in the dark - she is back to sleeping ON my head to make sure I stay there LOL
We were at a meeting for the teens mission trip this summer -REALLY neat program called taking the city - 9 youth groups and they go into small town and do all kinds of things - from heavy construction (what my kiddo wanted and got) to help with food pantrys, do VBS "in a box" (the kids come in and do it all - decorations, planning, teaching and cleaning up) tutor at the local school/library, help at the YMCA, clear weedy lots, help paint houses, spent time at the nursing home - just all kinds of things
oh anyway we were there when the storm**** here bad - spent some time in the bathrom with everyone - one guy brought his motercycle into the building - kinda glad we were there since the big tree by our front door is about half in the parking lot, my garden in tubs by the front door - less than 10 ft from the tree was perfectly fine
ok time to get off here - hope everyone has a good day - Liz SLEEP, drink water and get better soonest
hugs and prayers
danni
We were at a meeting for the teens mission trip this summer -REALLY neat program called taking the city - 9 youth groups and they go into small town and do all kinds of things - from heavy construction (what my kiddo wanted and got) to help with food pantrys, do VBS "in a box" (the kids come in and do it all - decorations, planning, teaching and cleaning up) tutor at the local school/library, help at the YMCA, clear weedy lots, help paint houses, spent time at the nursing home - just all kinds of things
oh anyway we were there when the storm**** here bad - spent some time in the bathrom with everyone - one guy brought his motercycle into the building - kinda glad we were there since the big tree by our front door is about half in the parking lot, my garden in tubs by the front door - less than 10 ft from the tree was perfectly fine
ok time to get off here - hope everyone has a good day - Liz SLEEP, drink water and get better soonest
hugs and prayers
danni
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I know what I need to do - I have to choose to take care of me or I choose to fail
DANNI-what a great misson trip for Danuel. My Chris has church camp next week. Theirs is close by--a camp in Glen Rose. Theirs is alot of "big kids teaching little kids". Chris has several "classes" he has to teach. He has been studying alot and I'm seeing a new "side" to him--and I LIKE it. He had to earn all his own money, and had to do it with "physical labor" for different church members--lots of yard work, hauling trash, tearing down fences, etc-NO "free" scholarships, which I thought was a GREAT thing. Some of the church members hired the kids to work on "charity projects", for some of the elderly members, who could not afford to hire the kids themselves-that way EVERYONE was a winner. This will be Chris's last year as a "kid"...and he's my youngest, so it's bittersweet.
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Hi Danni,
I had the opportunity to do a mission trip when I was 17 years old. It was similar to the one you describe. In the mornings, we ran a VBS for inner city kids in El Paso and, in the afternoons, we painted the interior of their church. We were there 2 weeks. It was truly one of the most formative things I ever did. It allowed me to see that everyone didn't live the privileged life that we did (even though we were far from wealthy). It gave me a perspective on the world that truly change me as a person.
Teens who wanted to take the trip had the earn it by working for church members. We were "auctioned" off to do housework and yard work for church members who then paid our trip fees. In El Paso, we slept in bedrolls in the church's Sunday School Classrooms and Fellowship Hall. Each of us also had to take a shift in the kitchen helping to prepare our food and clean up afterward. It was so much fun. You will never regret the sacrifices you have to make to allow your teens to take a trip like this.
BTW, y'all could send some of that rain down south. We are high and dry and really need the rain.
I had the opportunity to do a mission trip when I was 17 years old. It was similar to the one you describe. In the mornings, we ran a VBS for inner city kids in El Paso and, in the afternoons, we painted the interior of their church. We were there 2 weeks. It was truly one of the most formative things I ever did. It allowed me to see that everyone didn't live the privileged life that we did (even though we were far from wealthy). It gave me a perspective on the world that truly change me as a person.
Teens who wanted to take the trip had the earn it by working for church members. We were "auctioned" off to do housework and yard work for church members who then paid our trip fees. In El Paso, we slept in bedrolls in the church's Sunday School Classrooms and Fellowship Hall. Each of us also had to take a shift in the kitchen helping to prepare our food and clean up afterward. It was so much fun. You will never regret the sacrifices you have to make to allow your teens to take a trip like this.
BTW, y'all could send some of that rain down south. We are high and dry and really need the rain.
Vicki
Visit my blog Grams Made It
I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity... If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. – U.S. Navy SEALs
Visit my blog Grams Made It
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