I (Christy) am hyjacking Mom's Vox account again.
My usual stance in Kwaj captured by Nancy. I was taking the picture of a beautiful white bird.
Nancy also took this shot of Mom & Dad. I've been trying to post it on Facebook, but no such luck. We were just about to head back to Kwaj. I love this picture of the two of them.
Mom went to take a picture of Nancy, Dad, and I standing around one of the tour spots at Roi. I looked up to find her staring with a look of utter concentration at the water camera and noticed that she was about to take an unintended self-portrait. I just cracked up laughing... could not stop!!! She had me in tears!!! It was the way Mom was looking with such earnest at the camera that just set me over the edge. This is it for now. I tried to upload a couple more pictures, but to no avail...
The internet is so slow tonight that I (christy) decided I didn't want to go through the process of signing mom and out to sign myself into vox, so I am hyjacking her vox account and posting pictures. Took me 30 minutes to post these pictures. Internet is so slow tonight. I'll work on this tomorrow morning...
Just hugged my wonderful roommie Carrie and potentially said goodbye for Christmas (she's flying out tomorrow with her cousins... we hope they crash at our place which is much closer to the airport but we don't know if they've even packed) and gone back into my dark room to finish preparing for the day WHEN I hear Carrie loudly calling my name from outside. I can see her through the door as I walk through the kitchen, but can't see what's she's looking at. I step outside and see she's looking at my car and this HUGE branch that's fallen from the tree above my car (as a result of the storm). I step closer and realize that the branch fell first on the cabel that runs from the dogs' fence to the shed, and the cable and branch are less than an inch from my car, BUT not touching my car. WOW! Thank you, Lord!!!!! I really would not have wanted to deal with that today or tomorrow, and I leave on Thursday.
Ashlee and I were talking about our shared love of Mandie books today, which now has me trying to think back and remember all my favorite childhood book series.
1. Mandie by Lois Gladys Leppard - www.mandie.com
2. Laura Ingels Wilder
3. Anne of Green Gables
4. Narnia
5. And there was another series. I actually have a couple of the books at home, but I can't remember their names right now.
6. Nancy Drew
7. American Girl - before they were so popular. I liked Kristen the best.
8. My Canadian West Series and others by Janette Oak - (gosh... just early of an age did I pick up reading as I feel like I was awfully young to be able to actual read these books all by myself without any help.)
And I'll have to keep thinking. I'm sure there were more.
I got an email today from a Janet Norwood. I thought maybe she was someone sending out messages for the mayoral candidate - Mary Norwood (who I don't like and am not voting for unless claiming relation to her will help out my ministry in the years to come).
Here's the message from Janet: Are you ok????? I was thinking about you all night???? I have a hang over and I still have 4 and 1/2 hours of school to go and then Mary's tonight...what was I thinking.
Hmmm... I'm thinking she really must have had a rough night, as I don't think I'm the Christy Norwood she intended that email to go to... unless I had a REALLY rough night and have NO recollection of her or the night.
Life has been uber crazy, but good.
Last night I was driving up a side road next to Kroger when this big black SUV starts to peel out of a little very used parking lot next to Kroger, but slammed on its breaks when it saw me. I was far enough and going slow enough that I didn't even go for my break. I would have had plenty of time to stop had the guy not stop. Well, the driver of the SUV proceeds to SIT on horn while I drive past him and the passenger flicks me off with both his hands. I was so ANGRY. I wasn't the one who did anything wrong. I was the road driving straight and slow. I think they failed to realize (maybe they was getting high in the very dark of the abandoned parking?) that while they didn't have a stop sign, they weren't on a road and were at parking lot exit and therefore didn't have the right away. I was just on a straight shot of road. It wasn't two roads intersecting. And heck... I wasn't even up at where the exist was when they tried to peel out of it. I was so frustrated. I hadn't done anything wrong. They were they idiots.
This all happened after my monthly and LONG Neighborhood Planning Unit. I was on my way to buy some food for the week as well as the bread I need to bring this afternoon to our family Thanksgiving potluck lunch. I wasn't in the mood to be messed with. Well, I need to actually run and help with the potluck. I'll go ahead and post this, but will edit it a little later today and post more.
Just got done with an AMAZING potluck. Don't really know that I have the energy to write more just yet. Guess it will have to wait for another day.
... you live and work in the inner city when the hot news on the press and the exciting buzz of the day is about the new Subway located just 2 miles away. Yummy! I am enjoying a terikyki (spelling) 6-inch sub as I write this.
from our little pumpkin!!
Stay tuned for pictures of him in his costume!! What will Abe be????
as a family that is. So you will have to excuse the horrible lateness of getting this post up but well, I've been busy :) So Monday morning of our trip we had arranged for our driver Solomon to meet us at Bejoe House since we thought that we would be going to the Care Center to pick up Abe. Once he got there though Travis called and told us that the other little guy being picked up that day wanted to go see his Mom and Dad now and didn't want to wait on us to get there so Travis said that he would bring Abe along too and would be at Bejoe in about 1 1/2 hours. Since Solomon was already there we decided to run to the store to pick up some bottled water. We got our water and was on our way back when Solomon got a call from Travis asking where we were. He was already at the guest house with Abe and we were nowhere around!! Solomon gets off the phone and says Travis is at Bejoe and I completely freaked out. What did he mean? We still had plenty of time. I needed to get our cameras and have someone video tape the event, I wasn't ready (oh, wait, yes I was, I had been waiting for this moment for years!!). As we start to pull into the guest house alley we notice that Travis is parked in his car at the entrance waiting for us to get back, so we were able to pull in, run upstairs to get our camera (we were going to video tape it but we didn't even have a tape in the camera and Jeremy was shaking so bad he couldn't get the wrapper off so we just went with the camera.) So here's the video for my little camera. Little background, the other couple that was there were caught off guard too so since I had the camera I started video tapping them because I thought Travis was the only one in the car so I figured he would bring up their son and then go get Abe from the car, well I was mistaken.
We spent the rest of the day just hanging out at Bejoe House with Abe. It's hard to put in words all the emotions of that day. It all kind of seemed surreal. All of the sudden this guy walked up the stairs and handed us our child, WOW!! But it also all felt so natural. Having him just fit. All the waiting, all the fustrations and emotions leading up to that moment just all seemed to fade away like a distant memory.
So... I decided to sneak into my professor's CCDA class on his new book (When Helping Hurts). I came 15 mintues late from lunch. (And well, two of my professors wrote the book; Steve Corbett was teaching a session at the conference.) My big boss - Bob Lupton (who is famous in this world) - was sitting on the floor in the back of the room with his wife Peggy. It was a large room packed full. I sat down on the floor in the back next to Bob. I'm sitting there for 15-20 minutes listening when Steve goes to talking about the principal of looking at the neighborhood's assets first and not it's needs... and suddenly I'm hearing "christy norwood" and him talking about my job with Bob Lupton and how I do that. It was a surreal experience. Well... 10 minutes later I decide I need to stand, so I get up and lean up against the wall and all of the lights go out (though thankful Steve is using a powerpoint and so it doesn't disrupt him). And I of course try panic inside wondering if the lights going off are me or not. It was me. It was a weird sort of small 4 little buttons that I had pushed when I leaned back. You know... I just don't think it's nice to turn the lights off on some someone who just gave you a shout-out. Opps!!!
On an exciting note... The CCDA is going to be doing little Saturday institute sessions for $25 for the whole day! They plan on doing one in Chattanooga in 2010! So excited!!! I was thinking at the beginning of this session about how strange it was that this conference that plays such a central part of my year is not known by those in my life outside of those with whom I work. Hoping to get people from my church and maybe even Shannon & whoever else can join me in Chattanooga for the day!!!
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