Day Forty - March 12, 2010

In Old Testament times we are now at the same point as the rain storms Noah endured! Fittingly, it is raining pretty hard here right now as well!!!

Day Forty fell on a Friday. The girls were excited; the bus driver was excited; heck, I'm excited too! I don't think the dog was too excited about it - I might not be either if I walked around with a fur coat and water made me smell like a dog! But despite the all day rain and what the dog thought, it was a good day. I don't mind the rain much as I find it soothing.

The girls both made it off to school without too much drama. The teenager had a headache but I think it was more along the lines of a test-induced experience than anything else - today was the day for the infamous chemistry test on the stuff she told me "the teacher wasn't teaching out of the book about" - yep, remember that one?

I did talk with my wife twice today. She's not able to tell me much so I won't tell you much. She was very tired though and said she needed a shower. Still, it was great to talk with her. The first time I spoke with her, I was at home. The second time, she called while I was at Marshall's and she was able to vicariously go shopping with me!! Good thing she called, I would have gotten the wrong sized dress for the teenager!

Zero progress on the garage today - the rain was my main excuse but I really didn't have time to get around to it. I went to Lifeway to pick up some secret pal gifts - found something for all three of the secret pals. Then I stopped by Marshall's to pick up an Easter dress for the teenager. Found her a really nice white Calvin Klein dress that was originally $319.99 - paid just a touch more than 10% of that price so I'm very happy with that. Do you think places like Marshall's and Ross put inflated price tags on their clothes to make you feel better about your purchase decision? Are they secretly trying to make us save our way into the poor house?? I hope not, that would be an ethical issue on many levels. I'll just trust that they aren't messing with my mind via price tags. I also found a very nice pair of shoes for the little one that matched her dress. No, I never had a vision when I was a kid growing up of me picking out the right pair of shoes for an 8 year old daughter some day!! I also never thought I'd be carrying around purses and baby dolls either but that is a different story.

I stopped by Office Max to pick up the copies of the program we are using on Wednesday night. Wasn't cheap but well worth it. The rain was really coming down so I stopped by Paradocks for lunch, watched a little of the Ohio State versus "that place up north" basketball game while I ate. Was still raining when I came out so that plan failed but I had a full tummy! It did stop raining by the time I got home though.

I got home in time to watch the end of the Ohio State game - they pulled it out with a last second three pointer from about 40 feet out - very nice shot! Kentucky was losing but they came back to beat Bama in their game as well.

The little one got home as normal and was full of energy - well, for a little while. She laid on the couch like a big old log and passed out while watching PBS! I know, PBS puts a lot of folks to sleep!! I covered her up and wished I could take a nap as well! I took advantage of the time, loaded up the car for the evening teen program and started some laundry.

When the teenager got home, it was nearly time to go. She was going to see a movie after the teen program tonight with the pastor's grandson - the pastor's wife is chaperoning so that is okay. Of course she couldn't find just the right shirt so we had mild drama. That tension was resolved and away we went to church.

The program was good with a fair turnout considering the weather. We had hot dogs and sauce. You get spoiled by a certain type of taste and when you encounter something a little different, you have to re-think what you're eating. The pastor's wife made chili sauce for the dogs - it was okay but still different. Tonight was part II of our look at Joseph and Trust. Tonight we talked about God's preferred future for Joseph and Joseph's response to it.

The rain continued as we came home. Tomorrow will be a light clean up around the house, the teenager has work at 10am and then we are off to see the play Tom Sawyer in downtown Norfolk in the afternoon. Saturday evening we are meeting a group from the church for supper to greet the missionaries and then the missionaries are staying with us for a week. Somewhere in there I need to clean the garage a little so it doesn't look like the total disaster area it does now, plus I need to study my Sunday School lesson as well.

The youngest daughter did her devotion tonight then watched Planet 51. Her devotion was "God's way, my way (part 1)" referencing Matthew 5:38-44. My devotion tonight was "Abandonment" referencing Mark 10:28. It talked about commercialized self-interest versus real abandonment.

A rainy day forty is in the books. Here's looking forward to day forty one.