Vacation

Last week you might have noticed that I did not blog. That is because I was on vacation! It was great. We barely had cell phone reception. Had no TV. Had no Internet access. It was great! Yes, I mean great.
Someone asked me today if my vacation was relaxing. Yes it was relaxing. But, it was not restful. There is no way you can have a restful vacation with a 2.5 and a 5 year old boy. They just have so much energy and you have the whole week to play with them.
It was great to get away. Someday, I am going to figure out how to take a whole month straight. But until then...any vacation is a good vacation!

Am I still dreaming?

Am I still dreaming? That is a question I often ask myself. I ask myself that question a couple of times a day. It is one of the questions that keep me going. It is one of the questions that is an instant gut check. Fortunately, lately, the answer has been a resounding yes! I have a lot of dreams lately! Good God dreams! So that has got me excited! I have a lot of plans that get me excited. It is so good to be able to work at a place that allows me to dream. Allows me the freedom to explore different avenues. So right now, yeah it is exciting. Now with that being said, next week is vacation week! Well I have been dreaming, I am looking forward to a little rest. That makes me even dream more!

A new design

It was time for a new look for my blog. I was just bored of the old one. So I realize that blogger has made their layout options so much better then they used to be. So I thought I would give it a try. Wow is it fun. And then they added the "reaction" thing at the bottom of the post. Hopefully you will all now respond more, it is only one click :) Hope you all enjoy!

My shower addiction

One of those things that I don't mention that often, is that I take a lot of showers. When it is hot outside, I get all sweaty. The only thing you can do then is get a shower. Now I know some people are worse then me. The last three days I think I have taken 7 showers. I just feel so much better after a shower.
It was one of those hidden secrets, I thought I should share.

Excited about tommorow

This will sound weird, but tomorrow I get to work on filling out a bunch of paper work and I am looking forward to it! Hopefully, tomorrow will be the beginning of the filling out the new paper work in order to get a long over due project going. Honestly, it is not the paperwork, it is the fact that we are moving forward. It is not just to get the project done, it is to be able to help more people. I will admit it, I am excited about the process!

My laptop lives again

Now I think I might have blog about this before. But it happened to me again. The other day my boys were goofing off and trip over my cord for my laptop causing it to break. Argh. So I went on Amazon and ordered another one. For some reason once again, I did not look that closely at the description. It turns out that some of the Toshiba a135 have one type of plug and the others have another type of plug. So I had to order yet another one. This time I made double sure that it was the right one. Plugged it in and it work! Boy, does it feel nice to have my laptop back!

Praying for my staff

One of the most important things that I can do is to pray for my staff constantly. Maybe it is because I spend a lot of time with them. But it seems my staff is under attack on a consistent basis. This past couple of weeks we have had a stomach virus, appendix removal, and open heart surgery, and a bunch of other things too. That is just the physical side. I can not begin to tell you the spiritual attacks that my staff faces. Therefore, I pray for them. I pray for them often. I don't do this to make myself look good. I do this out of necessity. I do this because I have to. I ask you for this favor: Please join me in praying for the staff at the Lighthouse. Thanks!

Leaves leaves leaves

In the fall, I rented this massive leaf blower (Photo courtesy of my wife) . I mean this thing was huge. So I blew all the leaves in the woods and thought, there I fixed it (which by the way if you ever want a funny website to look at: thereifixedit.com). Well, the last two times it rained, those leaves created some problems. They have caused the rain water to reroute attempting to wash out my driveway. So for the second time in less than a week, I was out there digging out the leaves so the water would go where it was suppose to. Now with all that being said, my grass looks really good because it did not have the leaves there all winter. I guess the moral of the story is to make enough money that you can hire a landscaper and a maintenance person so you don't have to do it yourself? Just having fun tonight!

More mowing problems

Once again, the mowing problems continued. I had just got a working mower on Tuesday. Unfortunately it was raining on Tuesday and then again on Wednesday. So when it was nice today, I just had to mow. It started right up! I engaged the blades, they were spinning. I was off and mowing. I had to go slow because of how tall the grass was, but that was OK, I was mowing! I got about 3/4 of the way done. Then the blades stopped spinning. Oh no! The mower is broke again.
Tomorrow I will try and get it fixed again. So we shall see.
I wonder if this is how God feels when we keep screwing up over and over again?

What are three words that can get you anything and everything?

While we were eating supper today, my boys answered that question. The question is what three words can get you anything and everything? Now let me be honest with you, I was not looking for the answer. In fact, I did not even know the question. But the answer was loud and clear then the questioned followed.
Sam just could not get enough noodles. So he kept asking for me. However, what he said was a lesson for all of us. "Me more noodles please? Thank you." Now come on, of course he got more noodles.
Such a simple lesson. Saying please and thank you will get you just about anything you want. So with that in mind, lets makes those three words the most over used words.