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As many of you know that we have struggled over the past few years with financial and health issues. However this year we have experience many new, exciting, and uplifting adventures such as Big D achieving a new job, Z reaching teenage years, Little D starting kindergarten, and Little C spending quality time at home with mom. We have also met some GREAT new friends that have helped us grow our faith by leaps and bounds. Our lease will be ending in July and we hope to move.
Finally, Big D has finished grad school and obtained a masters degree in Historic Preservation. He started his new career as an Economic Restructuring Specialists at the State of Michigan in the MSHDA department for the Main Street Program. He is excited to begin the process of developing and improving Michigan’s down towns. Big D and his friends are in the process of organizing a Black Smith guild at Woldumar Nature Center compassing local Black Smith artists. The guild will be performing monthly demonstrations at Woldumar. The group has been contemplating naming the guild B.I.G (Black Iron Guild).
I love my career as the C.O.O of our family. I enjoy volunteering at Little D’s school and kindergarten classroom. I am fortunate to be able to create personal relationships with her teachers and classmates. I have assumed the role of assistant table leader for my MOPS (Mother of Preschoolers) group. MOPS is an amazing organization that aids mothers of young children to connect with other mothers. As a group we entertain each other with faith based discussions, play dates, and crafts. It is a pleasure to spend the 1st and 3rd Wednesday’s of the month with these ladies. Together with Little D’s school and the MOPS group I have the opportunity to participate in many fun activities with the kids and cherished social time with friends. For fun I enjoy taking pictures of the children, scrap booking, updating my blog, and connecting with others on facebook (www.facebook.com). Blogging is my way of preserving our family history of events. I plan on using the online journal in our scrapbooks. It’s comforting to know the kids have a lifetime storybook to treasure for years to come. Scrapbooking has been a healing gateway for me. It gives me peace to know that if for some reason my life is cut short there will always be that part of me left behind. Unfortunately, since my diagnosis of cancer four years ago a shortened life span is occasionally on my mind but I also have tremendous hope because the chances of a reoccurrence decreases greatly after five years of being cancer free. I’m almost there!
Z loves being thirteen years old and in the 7th grade. It is hard to believe that I officially have a teenager. YIKES!!! In his free time he enjoys to play online games such as Webkins. He recently informed me that he wants to make $150,000 a year designing video games. What would this generation do with out a computer and text messaging? He has been getting more involved and interested in hunting with his dad and during his last hunting trip he saw an albino buck. Z has been serving in the children’s ministry at church. I have received many compliments on how well he interacts with the younger kids.
Little D started full day kindergarten at a magnet school for visual and performing arts. Along with her normal studies she also learns about art, music, choir, theatre, and dance. She attends one of these classes per day. She performed her first dance in the front lawn of the school at the Halloween Party and will perform again in the Christmas show. She had a hard time during the first week of school but now loves her teacher and has met many new friends.
Littte C is currently taking a cheerleading class. She is enjoying doing things with mom while Little D is at school, however I wish she would refrain from telling her sister about the trips we take with out her to McDonalds, the park, etc... Little C loves to go to Little D’s school once a week to help out. She also attends a drop in child center a few times a month and is in love with her teacher Mrs. Angela. On weeks we can’t attend Family Growth Little C says “I want to go to school because I miss Mrs. Angela as much as a big, big heart”. Little C has met a few new friends in Moppets this year and I am glad she gets to enjoy them while I am at MOPS.
Remember to be still and absorb this holiday season for all its traditions and memories.
Zechariah 2:13 (NIV) Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling."
Happy Holidays,
Big D, Big C, Z, Little D, and Little C
