Random Ramblings

For the few of you that visit my site, have you heard the crickets chirping? It has been a little quiet around these parts, huh.



Most people would assume that would mean that not much has been going on. Those people would be wrong!



To catch you up on our lives since September, here it is in a nutshell:

* Elementary back to school night for M.
* High school back to school night for J.
* J. turns 15
* J. gets learners permit
* I start teaching a small group of JH girls at church on Sunday mornings
* Our small groups start up for Sunday night
* Our gym hosted a meet, which meant 17/18 hour days for a weekend
* J. has to get contacts
* J. has some extra gym practices - on Sunday afternoons
* M. is working on items for her web design team
* M. is practicing her percussion instruments
* DH (darling hubby) throws his back out
* J gets sinus infection
* My nephew comes in for a visit from China. However, he is extremely ill the entire visit and spends most of it in bed. :-(
* My father in law (B.) and his wife (D.) come to visit from one state away, bringing with them B's brother and his wife, from several states away. Quick visit, but enjoyable.
* A nasty virus or something similar decides to take up residence in our home computer.

And last, but not least, I have discovered the evil that is Facebook. It is an addiction. However, I have enjoyed being able to keep up with so many friends and their families.

Anyway, I promise to do an interesting update (with pictures) soon now that our computer has been healed thanks to my DH!

Oh, my on-line friend, Becky, posted a hilarious story about a run in with a horrifying gigantic slug that was trying to harm her and her entire family! In honor of her story, I am going to relive my horrible encounter with a terrifying creature. Most of you know this story, but for those of you that don't, here it is:

First, I need to set the stage. The back of our house has a lot of woods which end at a large pond. My DH was working on my car out in the driveway one evening. When he got done, he came in, but left the windows open.

The next morning, I pulled out of the driveway on the way to school. J and M were in the back, as was E. a boy who was carpooling with us. It was in October, so it was still dark in the mornings when we left. As I got about 3 houses away from home, I see something in my peripheral vision. I think at first that E. is somehow putting his shoe between me and my window, so I glance around. It was not a shoe. Oh, how I wish it had been a shoe! It. was. a. RAT. NOT a mouse, a L A R G E river rat. It's body was about the size of a house cat. It had fangs. And a tail. I still shudder when I think of the tail. EW! And it was INSIDE my car! It walked across my door and made a right onto the dashboard. I opened the door, slammed on the breaks, threw the car in park, and jumped out, all in about .68ths of a second, all the while yelling, "It's a mouse, there's a mouse!!"

What about the kids, you may ask? I am ashamed to say that I left them to fend for themselves. I did not jump in the back to try to protect them. I did not try to help them get out of the car. I jumped out and told them to stay put because after the creature walked down the passenger door, I did not know where it went. (It was dark, remember??)

I called DH to come to my rescue. He comes down the road carrying, are you ready for this, a flashlight and a golf club! A golf club? Seriously?

Anyway, we never found the creature. I am assuming it got out of the car during my door flinging hysterics. I will never know for sure. All I do know is that every time I stopped at a traffic light or stop sign, I got all paranoid that it was sitting somewhere watching me.

Needless to say, we traded in that van. I couldn't function normally in it any more.

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