It's Good To Meet Family!

Last week, the kids and I had the honor of meeting another "Doriot". Roger and his wife, Suzanne, were in the area and stopped by for a visit! Roger and I had corresponded through e-mail a few times but this was years ago...and to be able to meet him and Suzanne was such a treat. Roger kind of has an idea how we're related...I think we figured out that his children and ours were 5th or 6th cousins...maybe!

Roger and Suzanne shared with us about their ministry to the Nalja Tribe who are in Indonesia. I was so pleased that Roger showed us photos and talked to my children about these people and their culture. What a blessing we received that day!


I have more to share with you all about how God is using Roger and Suzanne but I will be posting that a bit later this week. I have some worksheets that Roger left with me and I'm going to try to get them scanned...so I have to locate a scanner!

Here are just two of my favorite photos from the ministry site. There are a ton more so be sure to zip on over there and check out the galleries! Neat!

This is Roger with some of the Nalja people.

And this, my friends, is a vine bridge...ack!! This makes my toes curl!!

Stay tuned for more!

My Favorite Cousin

My favorite cousin is an artist in the Nashville area. She creates beautiful paintings that are loved throughout the south. The last time I saw her was at the quilt show in Nashville. It was a real treat to get to talk to her and her daughter. I really admire her because she is so artsy...I want to be her when I grow up!

I found out a few weeks ago that she had gotten sick. One morning as she was getting out of bed, she fell and hit her head. All the docs thought she had experienced a stroke but extensive testing proved otherwise. Since then, we've discovered that she has lost her short term memory...in fact, I think she may have lost more than her short term memory because she didn't know that her parents had died which was quite a few years ago. So, that means that she probably has no idea who I am! This is all just heartbreaking to me...not that she doesn't remember me but that she has lost so much...

So, in honor of my favorite cousin who once told me, "I like all my rooms to be white so that the people who are in them can be the color.", I've changed my background color from pink to white.

The Van Thought it Was Wrecked!

Would you all believe that my oldest son has tricked our van...and our only means of transportation right now...into thinking it has been in a wreck?

Last night he was told to hop out and shut the side door. He jumped out and was trying to act all cool and...strong I guess...and he slammed the door pretty hard. I'm sure all the kids in the van thought it was terribly funny and everyone had been entertained quite well!

When Pete tried to start the van, it wouldn't start. This afternoon, AAA came and hauled the van to our mechanics place where we discovered that the inertia switch has probably been activated which means that the fuel line is shut....basically, when Nik slammed the door, the van thought it had been in a wreck and in an attempt to save my family's life from a burning fiery death, the van cut off the gas!

I loved my van before but now I really love my van! lol!