announcement & an attempt to be all there

 i always love a blog title that allows me a good alliteration!

first of all, i want to apologize in advance

for what i'm certain is going to be several weeks of less than riveting blog posts

& maybe even less visiting out in blogland.

& probably a few too many sappy posts!

furthermore, with one preparing to leave the country

& one preparing to leave the nest

i feel the need to be on my spiritual a-game.

(whatever that means)

i feel the need to really focus on some things here at home...

focus on encouraging my girls

& focus on my prayer life.

we had a meeting last night at church regarding emi's 3 week mission trip to peru.

besides the obvious physical preparations for her to function well 16,000 feet above sea level,

comes the mental & spiritual preparations for the trip.

i am certain the Lord is going to do awesome

life changing

things 

both in & through her.

i'm one of those people that can skim across the surface of many events and commitments

but i really want to be "all there" 

& engaged

for these preparations.

we are in the final month of meetings, dinners,

awards banquets, honors celebrations,

and all the fun exciting events for savannah's graduation.

throw in prom

& emi's 8th grade celebrations

and life....

well, you get the picture.

so,

not that anyone really cares

but i just want to apologize if it takes me a while to respond to emails

or if i'm a loser at leaving comments.

i love this supportive community here in blogland

& hate to disconnected or negligent.

&

i'm tickled to announce the winner of the paperlife journal class...

christina!!

please contact amy & she'll get you all set up!