Dear Lord it is June and there was so much I wanted to accomplish before this month in my life. Yep, I turn 50 in just 19 short days which means that turning over in my grave is not that far off on the horizon as well. But I will take it like any other well-adjusted middle-aged man…..I will probably forget it altogether and live as if I were a teenager again.

Well I cannot believe it, but I entered a family Biggest Loser challenge and am now a contestant in it. There are only 5 of us in it, my wife, my mother-in-law, and my wife’s sister and her husband. Of all of them I am the shortest. AND of all of them I am the heaviest. Dear Lord, I am ALREADY the Biggest Loser of them all!

Well it is the end of the day and I feel restless. There is something unsettled in my spirit, and I am not quite sure of what it is. My son has graduated, and my wife’s birthday has come and gone, but there is something that seems to be burning deep within me that is calling me to pay attention. I am not quite sure of what it is, but I will take note of it and take it to heart.

Yep, today is my wife’s 35th birthday and we had a small get together for her tonight. The cake was a vintage Dairy Queen ice cream cake, and the presents from the kids and I all revolved around the theme of her new garden. She got the most excited over her new compost bin which explains a lot about why an attractive young woman like her would marry me. And I will leave it at just that.

Tonight I had the great pleasure of seeing Scotty graduate from high school. Not that I could really see, since he marched in wearing my glasses, but I was thankful for that dark red shirt we bought last night to wear under his robe…..I could identify him from his collar.

Who? Mike T (Michael Treinen), that’s who! And today is the day three years ago he entered into eternal life. We of course still celebrate his life as if he were still here with us, and in many ways he still is. He however is most likely tipping one back among the Saints of God watching all of us here.

Well that did not last long. Tonight we were able to sell and say goodbye to Amanda’s Mazda 6s sports car. It is a great car, and we loved it, but the fact that she told me the hybrid was currently getting 48 mpg made the pain less in us both. She is hard to impress, but she has been impressed with the hybrid. I suggested that we replace all our cars with them, and she seemed open to the idea. It would save a TON of money too. I have already driven 20,000 miles this year alone.

Yep, I THOUGHT I was putting my wife on a plane yesterday afternoon for a business trip to Belgium that was supposed to last until Thursday evening, but it was not meant to be. She and parts of her team were flying into Chicago with just a 1 hour layover, but that seemed way too tight considering they had to transfer planes, airlines, and terminals. It however did not matter. Their plane sat on the runway in Indianapolis for that hour before even taking off, and then sat on the tarmac for another hour before arriving at a gate, then another hour at the gate before there were people who could get them off the plane. Needless to say, the weather all but closed down O’Hare, and the trip being cancelled, they had to rent a car to drive back home……I picked her up an hour from home at just before 1 in the morning. Yuck!