July 19, 2004--Misc.

It seems like things have been slow on Crosswalk recently. Only five messages when I got on just a little bit ago!

I'm down to six weeks left of this pregnancy. My back has been hurting a lot the last couple of days. I'm still in choir, because our choir is having a competition between sections to try to recruit and I don't want to drop out now. But last night it was pretty hard on my back. I can usually stand through our normal singing part, but then the pastor led out in another son when we were done. That's not unusual, but then he led out in a second song, and then in a third. By that time the elderly man next to me sat down, and my back was telling me that he had the right idea. So I sat, too. I was glad they did. They ended up forgoing the sermon that evening and just spending a lot of time praying for each other. I think Elmer (the elderly man next to me) and I were the only ones left in the choir loft at one point in the service. Most of them left to kneel at the altar and just worship. I stayed seated, glad it was a slow, worshipful all-night-sing instead of a lets-get-happy service. Those are fun, but I just didn't have the energy for it yesterday.

Today Erick is getting the rest of the stuff for the fence. What he's got so far looks really nice. The neighbor seems to have gotten over it--at first he wasn't happy because our property line was further over than he thought and he lost several feet on his side. But he's been lending Erick tools and praising him on the good job he's doing, so he must be happy that it's a good looking fence and not an eyesore. I imagine that he was a bit concerned about a 20-something kid builidng a fence by himself who had never built one before and how that would look. But my Erick is very talented! He can build anything right, even the first time. I'm so proud of him.

It's very quiet in here. I've got all four of the girls taking naps (the older ones were fighting so they got to go to sleep, too). Jay is the only one up, and he's bored. I just handed him a book so he'd have something quiet to do. They went to Vacation Bible School this morning. They all had fun, but Abby missed her older brothers and sisters. She was looking for them and calling for them. She wanted to go, too. She was very glad to see them again when we went to pick them up.