Following the Father

As you've probably noticed I'm switching alot of things around and changing almost everything in my site.  I still haven't finished with all that I'm wanting to do, but I'm slowly getting there.  I've decided to stick with this Webs site builder and blog for now.  I don't think any particular company is perfect and has exactly what I want, so I'm doing to just try to make what I already have work!

This week I've been lugging myself through a head cold.  It started out as just that faint "sick" feeling, where you just know something isn't quite right.  Then the next day I got the deep chest cough type thing, then my head got full, then my nose started in, and... you get the idea.

Grandma has had something too, so I probably got it from her.  I'm hoping that it won't get everybody before it leaves!

I've been reading some Frank Peretti the past couple of months for the first time.  At least the adult ones I'd never read before.  I've now read The Prophet, This Present Darkness, and I'm currently reading Piercing the Darkness. They’ve all been thought provoking and I’ve enjoyed them so far.  I'm told some of the ones he wrote later were too over the top for many, but I know God is definitely "over the top" so I'll save my opinion until I read one of them!

Josh lost his phone a few days ago, unknown to us, until a young lady calls us asking how she can find the owner of this phone she found.  It's pretty comical now that it is all resolved.  She called "Home" in his contact list (us) and also looked him up on facebook.  God was definitely looking out for him as she said that the area where she found his phone while walking across campus was not her usual route that she takes.  I'm glad God's got his back since his mom and sister don’t about things like that anymore!

Ben's home from his apartment at school for the weekend, her arrived at his usually time this afternoon.  He usually comes in the early afternoon Friday and stays until late Sunday afternoon.  His apartment has been great for cutting down on his commute from home to school, and home to work everyday.

With all the major health issues my mom has been going through our whole family's (the ones in the house right now) diet has taken a major turn too.  My mom has always been one to cook and serve quality meals and been wholesome in the what everyone gets, but it seems with everything having additives and artificial substances now that we've had to become even more strict.  Nobody really minds though since the healthy stuff usually tastes good too!  We recently made a trip to a bulk food store in a town about half an hour from here that others had been telling us about.  We hope to be able to go once a month to stock up.  It's run by Mennonites and they get most of their stuff from neighboring Mennonite farms.  I'll share a few nutritional things we've found out along the way in other posts when I think of it.  Some things have been rather surprising but make sense when you think about it!

~Elizabeth