Adoption Day -26
Well, it’s coming up on our first month with Jessica and Erika at home. Our house is a bit more hectic, but not too much more. We do more laundry, go through more food and toothpaste and Brenda and I have raised our voices at each other sometimes. OK, how is this for being politically correct? ….It could be better and it could be worse. That’s all I can say right now.
Brenda’s uncle died suddenly, a few days ago. Since his name was also Roger, we joked about who was the ‘good’ Roger and who was the ‘bad’ Roger. It just depended on which one you were talking to at the time. He just had a birthday party last Saturday and got the flu just after that. He went into the hospital and then was gone soon afterward. He will be missed by many people. Brenda’s dad is coming in from Montana tomorrow for the funeral.
I’m back to work on my normal (not-so-normal) schedule. Work is steady and there haven’t been any layoffs in our department. We have been understaffed for a long time, but recently they added some part-timers and we’re really doing OK now. Soon it will be review/raise/bonus time, but they usually wait until the last minute to say anything about them.
I’m closing my computer/consulting business the end of February. I’ve had 2 businesses for a number of years (Good News Computers started in 1996 and Makarios Communications started in 2000, I think) but most people probably didn’t know about it. I guess that’s why I’m shutting down. Since I haven’t been making any money at it, it’s time to close the doors and save the money for our new, larger family. It will take a little while for all the customers to move off the web server, though my brother did move his website the day after I announced I was closing the business.
It’s been COLD outside. Right now, it’s -20 F with wind chills between -25 and -50 F. We’ve been in a cold snap for some time but we’re supposed to be above zero very soon. Have you noticed that cars ride different when the temperature gets that cold?
Things don’t often go the way we plan. Or, should I say that we never know what to expect when God is involved. That is very good, because we’d really mess things up. Hopefully God is involved in most everything we do! God sees the end from the beginning. We see only the immediate and try to make our plans based on that, along with our own vain imaginations and expectations. I (and maybe most of us) need to remember that it’s not about me. We are not here on earth for ourselves, but for others. The plans we have for our own life do not compare to the plans that God has for us.
