My First Blog

Since this is my first blog, I'm not really sure what it will be about so bear with me! I am 41 (soon to be 42 years old). I find that very scarey to say. I have never been able to understand my parents who could not remember how old they were. It was a whole process to them to think back to the year they were born and subtract that number from the current year. Then they came up with a number "they thought" was their age. While I still don't understand why it happens, it obviously happens and it is now beginning to happen to me! It is a very difficult process at times just to discover how old you are.

I have been married to my husband for 23 years. We have three children...Brandon (22), Anna (20), and Zachary (16). All three our flesh and blood with very different personalities.

• Brandon is in College (we hope) at Tennessee Tech University. We sent him to college to learn and become smarter. Instead it appears he is slowly losing brain cells and has no idea what he wants to do in life. One thing he is pretty sure of is that he is tired of school and really wants to quit. We are in daily prayer for him that God will show him his will for his life and he will be receptive to that. In the meantime, he needs all the prayers we can send up for him!
• Anna just graduated from a Community College with an Associates Degree in Psychology and is going to be attending East Tennessee State University in the Fall. She is still very open to what God has planned for her. I know that he is planning great and mighty things for her and I see him at work everyday in her life.
• Zachary will be a Senior in High School in the Fall. He is obsessed with golf and Michael Jordan tennis shoes. He is working at his dream job at the golf course washing golf carts! The great part is he gets a free membership but now is experiencing less time to actually play golf. Hopefully that will change soon when summer comes and school is out.
• As I said, I have been married to my husband for 23 years and we both love each other very much. We are finding ourselves in new territory since our children are growing up. Our whole lives have been centered around our children, their ballgames, church activities, and school activities. We found it is easy to forget what we were and what we love about each other. We are focusing more on each other now and to spend time with each other as much as possible. We love to go places together even it is to Lowe's, or the movies, or out to dinner. We have our little pop-up camper and love to get away in it for the weekend.

If you have decided to read this far, I just want you to know my goal today was to tell you a little about my family and what we are like. We are involved in our church and our children are very involved in the Youth Group. My passion at church is working with the deaf ministry and interpreting for our worship services. We currently only have 2 deaf people attending regulary but are praying that as our skills improve, God will lead more deaf people to our church as well as hearing people who are interested in working with the deaf. We are very excited that Anna and Zachary are leaving in 51 days to go on a mission trip to Nicaragua. I am a little nervous about them leaving me and going out of the country. I can't get past the fact that I know God is going to do great and amazing things while they are there. I wouldn't want them to be anywhere else. I am very anxious to see what GREAT THINGS GOD WILL DO!

Since it is getting late, I will wrap it up now and say goodnight. I look forward to talking to others and learning this blogging "stuff". As soon as someone can tell me how to get my pictures on here I will put some family pics.