I need to sleep

It's been a little while. We have actually been quite busy. It's been nice.

Last weekend the church plant we are involved in had a retreat to have some fellowship and teaching time. It was a very good time for me. I think our involvement with this is going to be a welcome "kick in the pants" for Jon and I.

I'm not feeling very antecdotal today, so I think I'll just close...take a nap.

http://www.mdchurch.us/

This is our church.

Today I ran a 14 and 1/2 minute mile. This is a huge deal for me.

today

Today is the day that everyone talks about September 11th and the tragedy that happened on that day. I was thinking about 2001 today and what I experienced in that year, at that time, on this day. Being out in Philadelphia at that time was so surreal. Everyone knew someone who had been hurt, or maybe their relative did not go to work that day for some strange reason. We all needed to feel involved and affected so much. I'm not trying to make any more of a statement than that. Today I tried to just be sure I still felt affected by it, that I didn't discount the oddness of that time for me.

Jon and I are going to meet with a couple from a new church we've been attending. This couple along with another are starting a church in March. Jon and I feel very strongly that we would like to be a part of that church plant. So, needless to say I'm pretty excited about this dinner.

So now Jon's talking to me non-stop about Christmas presents...guess it's time to cut this short. Yes, that's right...I said Christmas presents.

Peace all. Deck the halls.

Settling in

Jon and I have moved now 4 times since the month before we were married. One of those was just a minor move in Philadelphia before we realized we were moving out to Peoria. So, that's three major moves. I worry that it has become a sort of addiction for me. It's all been motivated by Jon's job which has provided so much for us, but sometimes I think that I've just grown accustomed to these huge upheavals.

It's been hard for us to keep in touch with the friends we make in each place because when we move we want to try to meet new people (which has also been difficult at times).

Anyway all of that to say that in each of these moves, some things inevitably get lost. This time only minor things were misplaced that we figure are either crammed into the back closet (which we don't plan on touching until we move again) or we just gave them away in the last few weeks.
Yesterday I was making banana bread. This was the first time I've tried to bake anything from scratch since the move because my first job here was approximately 60 hours a week. That's why I have a different job now. All of that to say it took me three grocery store trips to get everything I needed. I would go through the recipe and I was just sure I had said item, but then I'd get home and realize I didn't have that either. So, I would go out again in search of another ingredient. I was so annoyed. We moved at the end of May and I still don't have vanilla.

This is not interesting, I'm sorry about that...