Hello friends. Since I'll be seeing many of you this coming week, I will keep this brief.
Our house was very busy this week.
In addition to our normally busy routine, the County Fair ran all week, with ambulances needed at several different intervals.
Al is cramming in 12 pre-marriage sessions for a couple who decided to get married next month.
He was also getting ready to be gone from the office for two weeks. Bulletins, Service planning, tying up loose ends, etc... Naturally, it's his month to write the weekly pastor's column in the Newsblade, too.
Both vehicles were scheduled to have service jobs, everybody was getting hair cuts, we had company coming Friday night, plus Sarah had organized a state recommended START class for the fire department on Wednesday night.
Not to mention packing. For air travel anymore, it's a nightmare. Add baby and toddler to that equasion and it's enough to make you pull your newly cut hair out. Snacks, blankets, toys, books, drinks, but nothing over 3 oz and then in a separate plastic zip top bag, diapers, wipes in easy access locations, tylenol and benadryl, plus any other medication that you MIGHT need in a 10 hour travelling span, birth certificates, photo ID, ticket codes, directions to the airport parking garage, Ativan for the parents.... You know, the usual stuff.
Then the killer: Al got a phone call on Wednesday that one of his parishoners lay in the hospital, dying. Most of his week was spent bed side with the man and his family. The hospital is a short walk from our house, so he came home for meals and the occasional sleep. The man died on Saturday afternoon, and now Al's off planning a funeral that he's not going to be here to officiate.
Tomorrow cannot come soon enough. But when it does, Oh, the glory it will bring!!
See you soon, Michigan!
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