If God so leads you, please

Our daughter, Rachel, is in her last year of college. If you read this blog and are a believer, please lift Rachel up to our Lord. She has two big school projects due before Thanksgiving and will be taking the third of three standardized tests on November 20 to secure her elementary teacher certification. School and tests are not easy for her, so pray

• that she will be able to concentrate and finish her work,
• that she will not get discouraged,
• that she will indeed pass the standardized test on Nov. 20

Identity Theft

Apparently my husband has been off to Italy buying things on our credit card. Over $700 of charges were made, but thankfully the credit card company observed that the charges didn't look right and contacted us. A new card is being issued.

Scottie, the 11-year old politician

This is Scott's third day with us. Last night I could hardly get him to go to bed because he was engrossed in a political show on PBS. He wouldn't go to bed until I agreed to set the VCR going.

Today on the way home from picking him up from school he told me he wants to become a politician when he grows up. Then he proceeded to grill me about for whom I voted, but I told him it wasn't polite to ask that question.

Then during dinner he told us he wanted to be the governor of Washington state. We suggested maybe he start with the school board or local mayor first. And I suppose moving to Washington might help too.

I'm recording this in my blog in case he becomes president someday. I'll let him stay up a little late tonight so he can watch the election returns.

Not empty

This week my nest is not empty. We are babysitting 11-year old Scott while his parents are away raising money.* I now remember how I don't like driving kids to school and back, but I do like having someone around to cook for. I noticing that Scott gets his homework done by "Asking Jeeves." Scott also informed us of his political views, a la Shawn Hannity. (Isn't he too young for that?)

*Other names for this process:

- raising support
- doing deputation
- partnership development
- pious pillaging of prosperous patrons
- begging

Halloween

Halloween doesn't amount to much in our neighborhood. We used to have a few children come by for candy, but now all the local churches have big parties for the kids. So I buy candy (chocolate) just in case anyone comes, then eat the leftovers myself :-)

I decided to post some photos of Halloweens past to remind myself of my cute little kids who aren't little anymore. (I'll be lucky if I see more than one of them for Christmas, let alone Thanksgiving or Halloween.)

First we have scary Halloween (well, maybe not that scary):


Next, we have Bible Halloween (Pharoah, church mouse, and Moses):


Last, we have Pacific Islands Halloween (I carried R. in that laplap as a newborn):