Memorial Service

Today I attended my friend's mom's memorial service. It was amazing and beautiful. J. had to go with me as it was a crazy day and we were all in so many places............on the way home he asked me if we had to go to church tomorrow because we had surely been today!!!! I laughed and said, of course we are going tomorrow,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but secretly, that memorial felt more like Church and worship than I have felt in a long time.................my friend's whole family sang "Amazing Love,,,,,,how can it be........that you, my God, would die for me"...........3 siblings and 19 grandkids..........all committed Christians and amazing...........I have never seen a family like that.......they ALL talked about how the Grandmother had prayed for them daily...........it was incredible..........................J. still has to go to church tomorrow...........

Friday..........at last

The kids and Chris in front of the River..............we close on the property in March......
This is a view of our "wheat farm"standing at the river front looking toward the road..........See Chris in the distance? On another note, we went to the Rascal Flatts concert last minute last night.................very fun and a good time to get away from the real world...........we sat in the Northwestern Box and in the Box next to us was John Grisham.................He seemed to enjoy Rascal Flatts too........very fun.

The River

That picture at the top of my blog? It's of the river place we want to buy..............today the guy accepted our offer................if all goes well, we close in mid March..............now something else to take care of!!! I'm just glad it's NOT in Charlottesville...........needing a break from the madness here.

Snow Day

J. taking pictures

Old Mrs. Poe

Yesterday, I was trying to calm an unmedicated ADHD 15 year old boy who by the way has an electronic tracker from the courts on his leg, down in my office...........
I was also trying to bribe him to go back to his classroom and get some work done.............
A girl in his class had raised havoc and he was agitated. He told me he couldn't put up with what teachers had to put up with. I told him it was really hard, but we were all here because we cared. He told me I should retire. I told him I was 44 and couldn't retire till my 60's................ He then got this look in his eyes............after he told me I was much older than his parents and was therefore really old.................it dawned on him that I could still be here when his kids are in school............He then went into a dialog with his future son about "Old Mrs. Poe" from his own school days.................. If I am still here then, somebody shoot me!!!

Wrestling Senior NIght