(Lilacs at Kent) Hard to believe I only go down to Kent 5 more times, to the Main branch, before summer break. I have enjoyed my year at main, but saving on the gas will be good. In Fall so far I have 3 online classes, and my only class I have to drive [...]
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5 more drives – Leave a comment
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Leave a comment
Happiest St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! The corned beef is defrosted . . . as always, reflecting in gratefulness in the memories of this holiday —
An outside tragedy strikes our busy lives here in NE Ohio–spring is still around the corner Leave a comment
The urgencies of life all keep going on these months, almost 3 months since I posted last, my Christmas newsletter. School is in full swing for me and the kids, and we are doing fine. The usual chaos of trying to get the house cleaned (or not) and cooking, studying, playing, having outings, and planning [...]
Christmas Newsletter, 2011 Leave a comment
A blessed Christmas! www.criscollrj.com (new)- for online Christmas letter with pictures. We can’t believe that it has been 3 years since we sent a Christmas letter. Quite a few of the old links to our 1990′s web sites are updated on there but not all. Describing more in depth all the changes you might have [...]
Jesus commands us to go, and to come Leave a comment
As I listened to Dr. David Jeremiah today, http://www.davidjeremiah.org/site/radio_archives.aspx, as he was preaching about stress and our lives, I was drawn to this parallel. He was describing how when we are so stressed out in life that we have a rest in our Savior and God and that not only is it a slight offer [...]
More than we can bear? God bears it with us. Leave a comment
Woke up early this morning and was reading an older journal – and found these older posts from November 1994 and January 1995. November 19, 1994 Tomorrow is Christopher’s birthday. 4 years old! He’s got a double ear infection but is now getting better. He’s been sleeping in the daytime and stays up until [...]
Teaching Enjoyment 2 comments
Ahh, so many ways to look at that. I thought of that title the other day while trying to help Chris with some things. And as my mind will play with words I realized there were two ways to look at that. The first way is how when trying to plan events with Chris, I [...]
Minor changes or major changes? 2 comments
Yep, that was the question. At the beginning of speech class called applied phonetics, our teacher sat in front of us and shared that of the 100 people in the class, only 15 would make it into the master’s program. She advised to have another option in mind. I thought about that for a week [...]
Senior year for 3 of us!! Leave a comment
RJ is in the 4th grade now and starts Wed. in his autism class, with a new teacher for the 4th and 5th grades. Hard to believe I have an older elementary school student now! Will get pictures of all three kids and post soon. Colleen is a senior! All the festivities that go along [...]
Yarping – Leave a comment
I have been wanting to post about this for ages, but could not find the book I was thinking of – but this may be part of the concept: http://www.churchchrist.net/Sermons/Prayer.htm “YARPING Stuart Brisco Stuart Brisco came up with a great acrostic for those wanting to know how to pray P = Praise [...]
