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Of the Twilight Zone and other family twists and turns….

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Scotty asked me this morning if I had blogged about the minor traffic accident that occurred at Church in Nashville yesterday, and I remembered that I had not.

You see yesterday as we were leaving Nashville, (you may remember I drove down and picked up Scotty at Edinburgh where Amanda had taken all the kids to shop while i did a wedding) I had to get out of the car (I was in the passenger seat…Scotty was driving) and get our Church sign and take it back into the Church. Everyone of course thought I had left, but when the sign got hit, I figured it was my responsibility to pick it up and take it in, and of course confess.

And so I did. The sign was fine, bit it was amazing to me at how everyone started to laugh. After all, Scotty had been driving just three weeks, and now “WHACK,” a sign was hit!

But I just smiled and handed Deacon Conley the sign, and said, “No my friend, Scotty didn’t back into the sign…..Amanda did!” And of course that got the biggest laugh of all!

That’s why Scotty wanted me to post, because in truth, he is still laughing! She is all over him about driving safely, and he does, but he is one down on her in terms of hitting signs! And he wanted her, and you to know!

Of course by the time I got outside, She, Steph, and Ben were gone! SO I just got in the passenger seat with Scott and hit the road. He’s a great driver, and is doing quite well. He has not yet driven the car with his brother in it……..Amanda is not yet comfortable with his level of experience.

Scott and I believe she must be waiting for some sign!

Nite and God bless.

Tom+

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Of hay, shots, and headaches……..

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As I sit here typing, I am reminded of the story about a traveling evangelist who went about place to place preaching and teaching. He went to one particular place to preach, a ranch, and instead of finding a whole bunch of cowboys, he instead found just one way out by a campfire on the plain. Even though the evangelist was disappointed there was only one cowboy there to preach to, he decided to share his entire sermon which it went over 45 minutes. After he was done, the cowboy looked completely overwhelmed. When he asked him why the cowboy said, “No offense sir, but sometimes I come out here with some hay to feed the cattle, but if I find only one cow I don’t make it eat an entire bale.”

I didn’t post at all this weekend because I indeed fed myself an entire bale, although that may huge UNDER-estimation on my part. This weekend our Bishop came to ordain a deacon (way to go Tony!) (the service was on Sunday) and he and a priest stayed at our house. It was great having them both here, but with so much going on, I just wondered how I did with everyone. It was more than I had done in months, and I really had to struggle hard to maintain concentration on all I was needing to concentrate on. I just don’t have a good sense of self-awareness right now! I just don’t want to insult anyone. Thank God they are both friends too, have a deep sense of concern for me and understanding.

We (our family) also had three open houses to stop in at for graduations this weekend. So there was even more going on than the church-stuff! But despite all the busyness, I knew I would make it, and I did! Yee ha!

Sure enough however, my long run is not quite over……this morning Amanda got very sick with a migraine and this afternoon I had to take her to get a shot. She of course has it A LOT worse than anyone else here in terms of condition. I know that for sure. It’s just that I am well past when I thought I would get some rest. And to make things worse, sadly, Mr. Ben is not being very helpful either. It amazes me that at almost 1 year old you never want to take a nap, while at 46 you want one all the time. And he and I just cannot seem to reach a happy medium. The important part though, and the blessing is, is that Amanda is unconscious and probably will remain that way until tomorrow due to the shot. It will take her a few days, but the shots do work, and she will get better….and we all thank God for that!

But the reality is that there will be no shot for me!! And I will be awake for quite some time. The bale this weekend and today already seemed pretty big, but clearly Ben thinks we need a little more hay.

No worries though, I intend to get through it and live a long and productive life………long enough for sure to make certain he gets what I know he needs…..a dad he can take care of! After all, what goes around comes around. And if I can’t give him that kind of hay, I am sure one day he will have a boy of his own!

Update: It looks like the graham cracker and bottle is working! Praise God!

Tom+