Catching Our Breath

That is exactly what we are doing yesterday and today. It has been fairly calm but I know that will change in the next couple of days. They have found some family members but it is unclear weather or not the kids will be going with them. D thinks that they will be in this foster home for a while. I worked at the church yesterday and normally it is a good thing for me. Not yesterday. There are a couple of kids there that knew the shooter and was telling me what a nice guy he is. At first I thought it was sad for both the victims and the 18 year old shooter until I have read about his criminal record. He has a very violent past, including the 18 months he just finished serving for a 3rd degree assault charge. This is not very christian of me to say but I will say it anyway. I will let the church pray for the shooter who is an adult and made his decision that day. I am going to spend my time praying for the kids that had no say and now have no idea what life will hold for them. Sorry, I don't think this was a nice guy.

Another thing that has been going on in our lives. Our church is starting a preschool this year. I told them that if they need an aide I would love to do that job. So today I was offered and accepted a job as an assistant preschool teacher. It is only part time so I will still be home after school and have my summers off. With a little help from the zoo here, it should work out fine. There is a downside that everyone here isn't crazy about. I start at 7:30am....... But all three schools are within 3 blocks of the church so the kids can go with me then walk the rest of the way. During the warmer months they can ride their bikes from home.

So that is all I have for now. Please continue to Pray for D & K, they really need it.

A Good Day

For Megan. DHS got in contact with me yesterday so that we could get the two kids together. His friends are important to him and DHS felt he really needed to see us. So I picked them up from school so he and Megan could hang out for a couple of hours. It was so good to see him and Megan really needed it. Today Steve and I are going to try and see what we can do about getting his bike back. His Dad bought him a brand new expensive bike a couple of weeks ago, and he was very proud of it. Unfortunately his bike got left on his front lawn during this whole nightmare and it was stolen. This poor kid has no luck. We are going to see what we can do about getting him another one. Sometime in the next couple of days (when I stop crying) I will post about what happened that night. Just not right now.

Update

Just a quick update. Megan talked to her friend last night and she feels a little better. He is in emergency foster care until they can find family members. He sounds like he is doing good under the circumstances. I am going to stalk the school until I can see and hug him today. Megan already warned him that I might do that. This boy has been hanging around our house for the last 3 years and he truly feels like one of my own kids. Please keep up the prayers, he and his sister really need them.

Prayers Prayers and More Prayers Please

Please pray for two very special kids. Megan's best friends father was murdered this weekend. This is such a horrible tragedy and has our whole town on edge. The poor kids have gone through a lot in their lives and I don't want to think about their future right now. We are not sure if there is any other family or what is going to happen. Poor Megan is afraid she will never see this boy again who honestly is part of our family. He is only 10 and his sister is 13.

I Love Sundays

I am just finishing up baking cinnamon rolls for breakfast tomorrow morning. I wish I can say that I have been baking and cooking today, but I haven't been. In fact, I need to make sure I have clean cloths for the kids and school tomorrow. I have however finished a book that I have been working on. It was recommended to me by a friend of ours teenage daughter. She was right it was good. The last 50 pages I couldn't put the book down. I have started an audio book that is coming out as a movie. It's called "Twilight" and so far I am liking it.

Megan's soccer team won yesterday 5-0 and Anthony's football team lost 56-12. The second week of school and it is going to be busy. I have back to school nights, practices, meetings and a bunch of other things. Not really looking forward to it either. Oh well, I will be back into the swing of things before you know it.

Have a good Sunday.;

First Day Of School

Here are some pics from the first day of school. The outfit that Megan has on is not the same one she ended up wearing to school. She ended up wearing jeans instead of the checkered pants. The pictures aren't my best but we where cold and getting close to being late. It's now in the 40's in the morning here.



The kids are back in school, I am back at working in the church and after a couple of days off Steve is back at work. Thank goodness, the man is making me nuts. He has decided that we need a new car. I agree that we do and I agree with the kind of car he is looking at, however I don't want to do this right now. There is just to much else going on. He maintains that he is just looking. Every couple of hours he shows up with a new one for me to test drive. The dealers here let you take home the vehicles to drive for a couple of hours. I finally convinced him, to just wait a little bit. The one we want they don't even have on the lot and we can wait just one short month. However, we have a good friend that owns a dealership, that just happened to call last night. Do I really need to say more? I really expect to walk out the door and see a new car in our drive way. If you don't think he would do that, ask him about the "ant spray" sometime.

Last Day

It's the last day of summer vacation and I can't believe it is over. I can't believe that I have a high schooler. I have a middle schooler, and my baby is in 2nd grade. Tonight to celebrate I am making a wonderful dinner. It is a terrible for you, but oh so yummy, lasagna. I got the recipe from a great website but I am not going to say where because I am going to play this off as my own. I am also making a good for you salad. So that should compensate for the lasagna right??? Well, in my mind that's what I am going to believe.