It's official!

My new title at 

Sand Creek Adventures is . . .

LOW ROPES COORDINATOR!

I was given my official job description on Monday with a $1.00 an hour raise!

I'll be programming our team build events, training staff, setting up and tearing down the site, researching and identifying new low ropes elements for course addition and assisting with general course operation.  Party on!

Happy Monday!

It was quite the happy Monday at our house!  Never mind that the roads were coated with ice at 6 a.m. and I was the lucky winner of "walk the dog".  It was so icy that I couldn't safely walk her down Jaguar Path - she was pulling and I was sliding, so I took her off leash.  She took off like a bullet toward home - think "breakfast!"  She was!  

It was such a joy for me to see Annie run.  It was one year ago on April 14 that Annie had her torn ACL fixed.  We will be running together SOON - joyfully!

Can you believe . . .

That Behr Paint put together a "Margo and Sam" commercial?  I couldn't figure out how to attach it, but I can give you the info!  You gotta love it - especially if you're Margo and Sam!  That's all we're watching right now during the blizzard!  NOT!

BEHR Paint TV Commercial, 'Margo and Sam' - iSpot.tv

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/w051/behr-paint-margo-and-sam?autoplay=1

Thankful Thursday!

On an actual Thursday, I am thankful for (more than, but am only sharing) these three things:

• I got a text at 2 a.m. this morning from my forever friend, Cherie.  (Can you say "the seventies"?)  Her grandson, Jack, was having heart surgery at noon today.  Would I pray?  Definitely!  I am thankful that I can be "there" for her and she can call on me at any time.
• I am thankful for my fellow swimmers who took the time today to ask me how I was feeling.  Truthfully, better in the muscle department.  My chest and leg muscles seem to hurt less every day.  Unfortunately, nausea is my new best friend (not so thankful for that).
• I am thankful for Edith's mom, Kris.  On our first day of lessons seven weeks ago, I had admired Kris' earring and asked where she'd gotten it.  She said she made it herself and she would be glad to make me one.  At the end of lessons today, Edith handed me a box.  Not only was the earring I admired in the box, but a totally cool pair of earrings that Kris said would be perfect to swim in!  What an awesome gift and I am so thankful for the earrings!  I went on-line and checked out Kris' website (Kiki Koyote) and her story makes me even more thankful that she chose to gift me in this way.

Have a blessed thankful Thursday!  

Oh, Poop!

In the process of multi-tasking today, I was walking Annie while carrying brownies up to Cindi's house.  Wouldn't you know?  At the house next to Cindi's, Annie pooped.  Not only did she poop, but another neighbor was walking by with her dog and saw me JUST LEAVE IT THERE! I was not carrying poop with the brownies - gross!  Cindi laughed.  I felt guilty.  And I DID go back and pick it up!

Forty-four days!

Micah came home last night and made the announcement, "I graduate in forty-four days.  Someone wrote it on the chalkboard in Mrs. Clark's room."  Wait, what!?! 

I have forty-four days, plus or minus, to:

• Update the FOO (Family of Origin) Photo Album, last touched in January 2015 and we've added a child,
• Update Micah's photo album, from January 2016 until now;
• Her little blue baby book was last added to in 2014; and
• What about Ukraine, summer 2017?

Not to mention plan a graduation party, order graduation announcements, do a senior poster, start a new job - and just feel well?  My new meds are making me nauseous and I think this is, too!  It's a good thing God is in control and I'm not.  I'm under the grace parade.

Contend.

We started a new sermon series at church this weekend, "Contend," the book of Jude.  This song started our worship time and it's been playing in my brain all day as I prepare to contend.