Oh. My. G.O.O.D.N.E.S.S. The past few weeks have been tough tough tough. Feb 23rd we received heart breaking news that our step nephew ended his own life at the young age of 15. That was a Tuesday and the following Monday was his funeral. There's something horribly wrong with having to process something like that. Prayers are needed for our sister-in-law and brother-in-law as they grieve. We were able to be in Tulsa for the whole weekend which was nice. On our way home however we received more sad news when back in Hays good friends of mine lost their dad in a construction accident. It made state wide news and shook the whole town to the core. Saturday was the funeral for him and it was packed. My nephew's funeral was full too and all I could think of was "if he would have knows this many people cared" ...sigh....
In happier news Marcelyn is learning to say real words. She babbles adorably all day long, but it is a lot of fun to see her connect things when she learns a new word. Everyone in her world is Dad-da including Mom, Tripod and the nursery staff at church. Her latest word that surprised me was "peach" one of our latest acctivities has been to play with boxes as building blocks to learn how to stack things. One of the boxes we use is a case of peach cups. She carried the box to me, handed it to me and very clearly said "peaches!" It was adorable. She's learning please, she says it sometimes but hasn't connected why she needs to say it yet. Today though, it was super cute. I sat down with a snack and she wanted to some so she came running over saying "peese, peese, peeeeeese" ooh alright. :-P
Well that's all the exciting news I can think of for today. Tonight is our 2nd Achievement ceremony for our Children's ministry on wednesday nights. It's the first time we've done one on a wednesday night. In the past we've condensed all we do into a 15-20 window of time and presented everything on sunday morning. Now that more than 75% of the kids that come don't come on Sunday mornings it doesn't make sense to having it on a Sunday....excpet that it gets the whole family in church.
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