Halloween was fun. We went trick-or-treating and also passed out candy from a friend's spooky 150-year-old house in town. My family had a lion, black cat, zebra, otter, and princess. Had an animal theme going, not sure what happened ( Read more... )

I was supposed to preach this past Sunday for the first time this year. I thought it'ld be very satisfying, but it turned out to be frustrating & not satisfying at all. There were only 8 adults & 8 kids at the little Mission. Don't know why, but I thought there'ld be more. The woman leader was like, "Mark's sharing on unity today, but I feel we ( Read more... )

Been dealing with some stress lately. In the past couple weeks..

• My ex-foster-daughter & her boyfriend split up & moved out of our rental trailer. They caught us up in the middle of the fight & left the trailer a horrible flea-infested mess.
• So we've been in the Atomic Flea Battle of Doom. We finally had to cluster-flea-bomb the suckers.
• Our 15- ( Read more... )

This weekend we'll have 10 kids in the house: our 3 adopted, 4 foster kids, 1 god-daughter, plus our ex-foster & her fiance who moved into our mobile home. HELP!!! This weekend is supposed to be the Morphicon staff meeting & picnic. I'm not sure how that's going work ( Read more... )

OMG!! What a wild, freaking week! In the past week:

• Dog still lost - presumed dead :-(
• Laptop still dead - had to order new hard drive :-(
• Daughter's foot is better but now scarred
• My former church building still has not sold and the realtor contract has run out :-(
• Still haven't decided to go back into ministry or to forever remain a simple congregational member