Beginning of a New Era

Can you believe that Sam is now a middle school student? It is hard to remember since he's still at the same school. He still has the same teacher. He still has the exact same classmates. But he's officially sixth grade, so he qualifies to be a part of Rock Solid. Rock Solid is the name of the middle school ministry at our church.

When a boy leaves his family behind and does something--there is often no way to know what happened. "How was it?" you may ask. "Fine." Is all you'll get.

"Did you have fun?" "It was okay."

"What happened?" "Nothing much."

So, to arm myself and not be the "know nothing" mom, I am getting involved in Rock Solid. I will be working with a small group of girls, being an all around monitor of activities. I survived my first night this evening. I took pictures, but don't have them since it was a borrowed camera.

Sam had fun. Profound. Eric went along as is thinking about getting involved regularly. How cool is that?

How is this related to school? How about answering that question about socialization?? He is interacting with kids his age in a positive environment. I have incredible respect for the youth pastor which increases each time I work with him. This is a good place.

Hope everyone has an incredible week.

Trouble with Tribbles

It is an episode of the original Star Trek series. The tribble is an alien pet/creature that is just a ball of fur. After watchin it, we were compelled to create some tribbles. They look just like the ones in the show.

rest of the pictures

Ernesto Pictures

This stick was sticking in our neighbors back yard. Sam's index finger is marking how deeply it was in the ground. "And it isn't even sharp!" was his comment. We used this to discuss the "wisdom" of playing outside when the wind is blowing that hard.

Ernesto!

We survived another one. This time the winds weren't as intense, but there was a lot of water falling out of the sky. It seems that no one expected the storm to be this intense in this area. Many folks were caught off guard. We spent almost all of the day without power. There is a lot of debris in our yard to clean up. Other than that we came through the storm with flying colors.

I'll post pictures this afternoon.