So, I don't know how many people actually read this.  But I'll post a little update! 

The beginning of the summer was busy for Joshua, he took two 1-week long classes.  He survived.  We then traveled to St. Louis, went to a wedding, then went on a 2 week long camping trip with Joshua's family.  We went to North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota.  We saw lots of great things  in God's creation and we really enojyed the time with family.

About 2 weeks after we got back to Louisville, left and went to Dallas to see my family.  We went to the Hill Country and had a blast floating down a flood swollen river!  Lot's of rapids were involved! 

This semester has gotten off to a great start!  Joshua is really enjoying his classes and I am still enjoying work.  I am looking forward to going on a retreat with the women in our church, in about 2 weeks!  And I am taking a class for seminary wives called Embracing Femininity. 

Lots of our friends are having babies so we are getting to learn from their experiences!  It's good to think about parenting skills before we actually become parents! 

I'd say that's about it for now!

Normally on the days that I don't work I like to sleep in...that means if the phone rings before 8am I am probably not going to get it.   So this morning when it rang at about 7:30 I did not want to role out of bed to get it...Joshua just turned over so I knew it was either let it ring or I would have to get it.  I let it ring.  Then i remembered that my friend Saki is flying in from New York today and maybe that was her.  I popped out of bed only too late...whoever it was calling had hung up.  So I try to call the number back...two rings and "click"...disconnected.  Thirty seconds later I get a text message that says "coming at 1617"  Ok, so maybe it is Saki and her flight got rescheduled...she was supposed to be coming at 10:0something....As I am contemplating whether to call, or go back to bed and just accept that the text is from her and I shouldn't show up at the airport, the house phone rings.  It's Saki.  "Hi Saki did your flight get changed?" 

"Yea, I coming at 4:17 this afternoon" (she's still learning english) 

"Why, did they just change your flight?"

"Well.....maybe I get to airport too late...."

"Ha ha ha...you missed your flight?"

"Yeah maybe..."

"Ok, I'll see you at 4"

"Ok, bye"

I headed back to bed and just kept chuckling to myself.  This whole things reminds me of a favorite roommate I used to have!

I am so excited about starting to volunteer at the local crisis pregnancy center!!  There are only 2 abortion clinics in Kentucky and the center that I work at is on the same street kinda caddy corner to the abortion clinic. 

Two things I have been thinking about that are VERY disturbing..

1. That baby that was born a couple of months ago that was born at like 22 or 23 weeks gestation was given all the best care at a hospital.  The parents and medical staff were dedicated to saving that child.  Just because it was wanted seems to have made the differenc in deaming it a human and not just a blob of cells.  It is completely illogical to say that this child was a human simply because it was wanted.  Babies at the same gestational age are aborted everyday and it is legal simply because a woman doesn't want it.  How blind and stupid can we be?

2. It seems like if people who support abortion were to be perfectly honset it is idiotic to claim that a fetus is not a human.  Science and logic argue to the fact that it is.  It is clearly insane to keep pushing the fact that a 12 week old fetus is not human.  Some people still do argue that and they are entitled to their stupidity.  But I think there are possibly those out there who would say "yes, the 24 week old fetus is a human...so what, go ahead and abort it because it's going to chnage your life and that's not a good thing?"  That is a scary thought.  I think even more scary than saying that the fetus is not human.  What is to stop us from saying that because a mother gets tired of feeding, bathing, changing diapers etc etc of her two year old that she just can't drive him out to a deserted lot and drop him off...heck, let's make it legal so she can do it without fear of punishment.  And what's wrong of just killing people who are tired of living or who are a burden economically on our society?  If the logic were carried to the full extent of people who would admit that a fetus is a human is a bone chilling train of thought. 

May God have mercy on us.  

Last night I was sitting at the nurse's station at work, waiting for Joshua to pick me up.  The little phone system that we have that lets us know if a patient needs something lite up, and since I was the only one sitting up there at the time I answered it and said "Can I help you?"  The lady in room 629 asked, " Um, I was just wondering where my food is?  I asked someone to reheat it for me?"  So I said, "Hold on  minute and I'll check on it for you."  Well I knew that one of the other nurses had handed the nurse aid a to go box from Cracker Barrel and told her to reheat it for the patient in 629.  The nurse aid wasn't around at the moment, so I went to the kitchen thinking maybe she had forgotten about it in the mocrowave.  No food was to be found, so I found the aid that was supposed to have heated it up.  I asked her if she had taken the food back to the patient in 629. "628 you mean?", she said.  "No, the patient in 629 just called up here and asked where her food is." Well the aid thought I was joking around, because at this point I was cracking up because she had given the food to the wrong patient.  I told her to go try to get the food back from the patient in 628.  Well the paient in 628 had eaten ALL the food from the take out Cracker Barrel container.  Ok, so at this point we were like how in the world would someone eat ALL the food...the food was already half eaten....and it clearly says Cracker Barrel on the box and if you were handed a take out container that wasn't yours would you eat the food?  And if it was already half eaten food, would you eat it?!?!?!  The aid had to tell the poor lady in 629 that her yummy Cracker Barrel food had been all eaten by another patient!!  How sad is that?!?! 

In other random news: I am learning more about giving chemo...scary and exciting; Joshua started his 2nd semester; it snowed; I really enojy having time to read; I dreamed we had rats running all over our house...they were coming out of the walls...which in real life we have had mice or some other rodent running through the walls; you can find cool cards at www.cardsfromafrica.com; Joshua and I are going to start teaching the 2 year old Sunday school class in the middle of Feb.; me madre and padre are coming to visit in April; Joshua and I like living in Louisville---it's a good place to get to know liberals; my brother is working on a really cool documentary that you should all watch when it's released in a year or so; I am working on a new painting...I'll post pics when it's done;  Robert P. George who is the McCormick Prof of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Intitutions at Princeton and is on the President's Council of Bioethics is coming to Southern next week to give lectures on "Embryo Ethics: Justice and Nascent Human Life",  "Marriage and the Illusion of Moral Neutrality" and "Democracy, Morality and Judicial Usurpation"...which I don't know what all of that means, so it will be good to hear what he has to say!  Also we are really enjoying our church and oh I can't think of anymore random news bits for ya. 

Later!

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