Things Have Been Nuts

Kregg helping the two youngest take the online portion of their hunter's safety training.

Blogging has been pushed to the back of the stove here lately. There's just been no time. As you know, some big changes have taken place in the Antbed, the biggest one being Caleb moving away for college. Between getting Caleb settled in to college, a trip with our youth from church, a family reunion and scouting trips for a new deer lease, we have kept the road hot. Okay, it was already hot. It's just a figure of speech.


Our homeschool began a new season with a new schedule and new challenges. We are part of the shepherding team at church and haven't been as in touch as we should have with our little "sheeples" this summer, so that has to change. Now! 


A big addition to our weekly calendar of commitments is being considered for one of our little chickadees. It has to do with an orange ball and a little hoop. 


We have also joined the "Life Guard" team to help teach and encourage the youth at church. Because that meets on Sunday night, our small group Bible study that usually meets at our house at that time is going to have to be rescheduled. Which then causes two other Bible study groups we are involved with to be affected. We haven't exactly figured all of that out yet. 


Then there's the prayer ministry that has been running all summer and finishes up this month with Saturdays being "my day." 


There are many projects in the works around here. Always.


Oh yes, then there's the Tabernacle Experience which comes to our church at the end of this month. I am the project coordinator for that. 

Over the weekend, Jeremiah, Hannah, and Samuel flew into town so we could celebrate Hannah's birthday. Kregg decided to cook for the occasion. Which meant buying 5 briskets, sausage, pork loins, and ribs and borrowing the big grilling trailer from the office. 

We made a quick trip, 150 miles each way, Monday night to take Caleb to dinner. He couldn't come home, too much reading to do, and so we just decided we'd waited long enough to hug that scruffy neck.


I always preach about being over committed: "Don't do it!" I often say, and yet here I am. It's time to finish some things up and not add anything else to the list, right? So if the Antbed looks a little more frenetic than normal, now you know why. And if I don't make it to all the normal little corners of this blogging world that I try to visit, it is NOT because I don't love you. :)