Happy Leap Day

This is not going to be about leap day. Because I really have nothing to say about leap day other than the fact that it's really weird that some people born on leap day only get birthdays once every four years. A very big Happy Birthday to all of you and I'm sorry you get gypped.

Martin has pretty much decided to not go forward with the FBI. Everyone has strong opinions about this. And when people ask me what I think I honestly just don't have strong opinions about it. I think if he wanted to do it, he could. But I also think it's fine if he doesn't want to go through with it anymore. Mostly, I want Martin to find what it is he wants to do; and not even for the rest of his life. Just for right now. But he's having a lot of confusion with that. And it's understandable. It's hard to know what you should be doing with your life. I think most people never even get the opportunity to decide that so, in a way, we are very blessed.

I've worked 36 hours in four days this week. For being used to about 25 in 3 days, this has exhausted me. "We" are in the process of finding a new employee at work. Which has me doing the job of two people. For the first time since we've been up here, I'm getting home later than Martin. And dishes and clothes all over the house are screaming in protest.

I'm reading a book by Rob Bell titled "Sex God". I'm very much enjoying it. Apparently, Rob Bell is the pastor of a very large church in Grand Rapids. Anyway, the book deals with sexuality and how it is such an important part of our spiritual life. We should not ignore our sexuality. God made us sexual, and so many of his references to His relationship with us are compared to the intimacy of a man and woman. Really interesting thoughts that I've never even entertained before. And what really shocks me is all the scripture that he uses. Just an interesting person who I can tell loves poetry, even though he never comes out and talks of his love for poetry. Anyway, I've not yet finished reading it and will wait for an overall opinion of it until I do.

Today the sun is shining

I don't think I've seen sunlight in over a week. Like, not one ray. Today there's lots of sun and I'm like a cat trying to sit anywhere it lands coming through our windows. Clear skies make it even colder here, but you take what you can get up here in frozen land.

The picture is of a trip this summer to Chi-town visiting Jess. I love how people gather around the bean to get pictures. It's such a cool part of downtown. I think it was around 94 degrees that day; hard to imagine right now.

Thanks from our Heart

A big thanks to everyone who has been praying for Martin's father. And for all the concern for him and the family. We are happy to report that it looks right now that he is turning a corner and he continues to get stronger every day.

For those who might not have heard here's a short update. Tuesday night, we received a phone call from Martin's mom that his father had been taken to the emergency room due to severe internal bleeding. This came as a total shock to us as Martin had just listened to a voicemail message from him about 15 minutes before the incident happened. Martin's father was driving home from work when he became very dizzy and nearly passed out, causing a wreck. He was bleeding very severly internally due to blood vessels that had burst. It was a long fight for the doctors to get the bleeding to stop. From the last report, he is on his 15th unit of blood (that is a LOT) and is still very anemic and will have a long slow recovery.

Martin, obviously was very shaken by all of this. It has been very hard for him to be away from his family during the whole situation. It is such a scary position to have your family call to tell you to gather together for the worst. We are so thankful for Martin's dad in our life and can't imagine losing him.

Again, we're so blessed to have numerous people call and tell us that they are thinking for us and praying for Martin's dad. And how many people have offered help in any way we need them. We love you all! What a great testimony of Christ's love you have all been.

A whole mess of cold

We are having a terrible snow storm and now I am wondering (again) why we are here. It's very difficult to be content here sometimes. But Martin and I are working on not just splitting when it's no longer fun. (with location and many other things).

I'm watching the grammy's tonight. I love watching the Grammy's. Pure musical entertainment. Nothing wrong with that during a snow storm. Tina and Beynoce doing Proud Mary was just perfect.

Oh yeah, and I've been thinking about kids lately. Like, kids for me. This is a huge thought that most of the time scares me into not thinking about it anymore. So, yeah. We'll see. This video is so you will feel bad for me: (It's my back yard for crying out loud)