News at the Shafer Haus
October 22, 2008
Well, fall is in full swing here. The few sunflowers that survived our two windstorms that were back to back are heavy with seed. So exciting. I'm anxious to be able to put them out in the winter for the birds. :-)
Xander's doing well in second grade. He *loves* his teacher and his new classmates (6 new kiddos have joined his class). He now has *3* sets of twins in his class! All fraternal, so it is easy to tell them apart (they really look not much alike). One set of boys, and two sets of girls. Seriously, how often do you get 6 out of 21 kids being twins in a school classroom? He won the limo lunch again this year. He's having a hard time deciding who to take this year. No Madi in class, so it's not easy picking one of the other girls. Apparently, he's decided it has to be a "date", so he can*not* take a guy friend with him. *sigh*
He has also learned to ride his two wheeler without training wheels! We're stoked about that, and have gone on a family bike ride already. :-) 4.2 miles. He's loving soccer again this year. 3 more practices, and 4 more games and we'll be done with the season. He's turned into a wonderful defender. :-) He even has 2 goals under his belt. He can't wait until next year when the team will have a goalie (moving up from micro to mod). Guess which position he wants to play? ;-)
Gryphon's business is doing well, and he's still loving his commute. He doesn't have as much time to do the fun things he would like to, but he's staying pretty busy. He preached 4 out of the last 5 Sundays at Bremerton Church of God. This last week was rather hilarious. The church is currently meeting at the school district administration building, but this last Sunday, the lady who opens up for us didn't show for whatever reason. The regular pastor was out of town, and she's the one with the contact numbers at the district. So we had no way to get in. 15 of us are standing in the cold, trying to figure out where we can go. Gryphon suggested our home (which was clean at the time, so would have been okay), but most of the people live in Bremerton, so it was deemed "too far away". I then suggested IHOP or Family Pancake House where at least we could fellowship. One of the men piped up, "wait, Denny's let us use their back room one time!" So I called over there and it was open, so we drove over. Of course on arrival, they ask, "Is everyone over 21?" Well, everyone except Alexander. They let us go anyway. So we held church service last Sunday at a Denny's Bar. My husband gave his first sermon in a bar. :-) Hee hee. Then we all ordered lunch and ate together. Alexander did his first scripture reading in service. All the grandma's and grandpa's thought it was adorable of course. He read from Psalm 102.
I'm tired, but plugging along. Feeling overwhelmed a lot of the time. I just finished up a huge project for Alexander's teacher. That felt good to get finished. I haven't been working at the hospital much as they keep canceling me. :-P Oh well, I've got a couple of shifts that should be coming up, and I'm going more online again. Speaking of which, I should be doing that right now instead of blogging, but I hadn't blogged in so long....
