The ongoing adventures of the Thomas family at Chenoweth Farm
What a great picture… I wonder if that’s Port-au-Prince in the background? I had to cut this one down some; go to her blog for the real thing, plus a peek at our daughter’s “inner child”, who comes out when it rains suddenly at the end of a hot summer day and … 🙂
Your daughter goes on a mission trip, and sends back this:
Oh boy. Notice the 2nd spout starting just below the clouds on the right… very rare. What happens when it starts heading toward the beach? Fortunately, Sarah and friends merely took pictures.
Now– see what you’re missing at Sarah’s blog? 🙂
A number of you have asked about progress growing our software consulting company. I have started an update page on our progress recently, in anticipation of launching a blog related to our business website after our rebranding efforts are complete. To get the latest news and prayer requests, check here.
Dear Friends and Family,
Well, I woke up this morning to the sound of….can you guess what?…..An ice cream truck. Arrgghh!!, I hate ice cream trucks. The music drives me nuts! I actually talked to an ice cream truck driver who said Continue reading “I’m getting really tired of trying to think up interesting subject lines for these posts. Does anyone mind if I just say Lydia: update?”
Boy are we glad to hear she is! 🙂 Here’s a note she sent the other day:
Dear everyone,
Last night I got back from my two week trip to see Haiti, it’s people and culture, and my boyfriend Daniel. It was an amazing trip, to say the least. I learned so much, and I’m still processing a lot of it. Haiti is such Continue reading “Sarah: Back from Haiti and …”
Dear Family and Friends,
Whew, what a week! I am definitely glad that I am more than halfway done. I have loved it and hated it. I really love learning, I really really do. But I also love doing other things: reading, karate, hiking, playing games. I hate the fact that while I’m doing this Chinese, I can do nothing else. Learning has its price. So, I am glad I’m learning, and I’m glad I’ll be done in four weeks. Then I’ll have four weeks to catch up on all the other things I love, and then back to studying my rear off. And it will go on like that for four years (yikes!). Anyway, I really don’t even mind studying for hours and hours, its just I can’t do anything else, and I really miss all the anything-elses.
We are getting Continue reading “Update from the Chinese Front”
I just finished a week of directing Vacation Bible School for our church. This Bible Nature Camp had a bird theme this year, and I spent many hours searching stores for bird decorations and bird prizes, making bird decorations, and reworking the curriculum. I affectionately named it “Tweet Week”. Serena even took her parakeet with us each day to add to the interest and decor.
I learned a few things this week. The first one was that I’m not as young as I used to be. After being energetic and excited for the kids all morning, I had to come home and take a nap in the afternoon! The second revelation came from none other than Azeem, Serena’s parakeet. We were a little concerned that the traveling back and forth would upset him. Quite the contrary! He loved the motion of the van that made his hanging toy rock back and forth. Between that and the classical music I turned on, he chirped and tweeted happily all the way to Louisville and back every day. This bird is just so CUTE in his behavior. It made me smile to hear those chirps and tweets coming from the middle seat, knowing how much Azeem was enjoying himself. Everyone should carry around a parakeet in his car, for the joy, and to learn the meaning of the phrase, “Simple pleasures are the best.”
O.K., you’ve all played it, right? On a long trip, you have your kids keep track of all the different state license plates you can find. I forgot to write about it related to our trip to VA, but Serena and I did this in June. On an 11- day trip, driving through only 4 states, we found 44 states — all but Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Of course, we did drive slowly through the whole parking area at Monticello, and we did the same each day we left a symposium at the conference hotel in Williamsburg. There were people there from all over the U.S.! It brought back memories of many other trips. Hey, Sarah and Lydia, we even found a North Dakota license. See? North Dakota DOES exist! (Inside family joke).
So what is a follower of the Warrior King doing linking this article about a thoroughly entertaining atheist named Christopher Hitchens? The same being a man who is making mounds of money ridiculing belief in any sort of God (god) and all such witless and benighted souls who profess the same? Well… read the article for yourself. Seriously– go ahead. If you can also check out the book and read it, I envy you, for I wish I had the time to do so. Finally, to get the flavor of my enjoyment of all this, read Psalm 2:4,5.
Ok, this is going to be hard, but you all have to hear it. For all you wonderful people who are reading our post PLEASE COMMENT!!!! I keep hearing that this person and that person is following my updates, but no one ever says anything to me. They don’t e-mail me or post comments on our blog. I can’t stand in front of you all and carry out a wonderful conversation on how my life is going, I can only do one side of the story, so I need you all to comment and start up the other half.
Some of you have e-mailed me, and believe me, I really apreciate that and love hearing from you. I doesn’t take much to comment, just register, not a complicated process. If you have any trouble, remember my dad is a computer genius.
I am glad that people are reading posts on our blog, but I’ll be gladder when people start commenting.
Love you all, can’t wait to hear from you.
Lydia