Yep, my 800th post, and most of them consecutive too. (if you count, I’bet that there are 800 flowers in the picture too) I first would like to thank the Academy….no no no. I really should thank that clot that went to my brain in 2008. After all, I use this blog for my ongoing therapy and it is a good discipline for me.

It is an interesting night at the Tirman home. Ben is sitting in a chair on the back porch (where he was attempting to interfere with the writing of this blog) ordering his brother around as if he is bigger than him. He does think he is Scotty’s boss, which is funny in itself, but they are as thick as thieves.

Yesterday would have been my sister Sarah’s 45th birthday had she not died in 2004. I think about her and my sister Stephanie (Steph died in 2001) a lot, especially lately as I see Ben, Stephanie (named after my sister….they were great buddies) and Scott (who we sometimes call Sarah just to make him mad) together. Of course Stephanie is now at college, so she mostly interacts with Ben just on Skype, but Scotty and Ben hang all the time.

Today I am posting early, not because I am trying to get things done sooner, but because of the day.

Today apparently will never end. I have been to both Nashville (Indiana) and Bloomington today, which was a successful trip. We found a facility in which to house our campus ministry for IU students and will also launch a mission church in the same location. (St. George the Dragonslayer). We almost didn’t get to see it though. It was just on the outskirts of all the police cars and fire trucks. Some construction workers cut a gas main and you could hear and smell it everywhere. I asked one of the guys on that crew about it and he said that when it was cut he never ran so fast in his life. Of that, I am sure….who wouldn’t?

Amanda travels a lot for work, and tonight she is to be in Toronto for a meeting tomorrow. The last I heard however, she was still in Indiana sitting at the airport. She will return tomorrow night, not just because her meeting will be over, but because she does not trust us boys at the house all alone.

Yep, wouldn’t you know it? Ben was, and is sick. He threw up all over our bed last night, has a fever, and even made a trip to the doctor today. He moans and whines, and he does not want to eat. The poor little guy is having a hard time.

Well this post will be short. We went out to look at buildings tonight on the west side of Indianapolis to move Holy Spirit into, but our attention kept being pulled back to Ben, who was certainly not feeling well. He still played and gave us his usual commentary from the back seat, but seemed to be crashing and in need of going home and heading to bed.

WOW, what a whirlwind of a weekend. We spent the better part of 2 days in Fort Wayne at the Heart of North America Regional Network Reunion and then today at two churches with the Reverend Art Going, who delivered the sermon at both. Art and his wife Nancy are moving to Indiana within the next few months to plant a church in Carmel, Indiana.