What's happening?.

Hasn't this fall weather been absolutely gorgeous! I am really enjoying the milder temperatures. I could really live somewhere with this type of climate all year round. It's so comfortable. A few nights this past week it got rather chilly in the house and I lit our first fire in the fireplace. It was actually warmer outside than in. I love a good fire!

I didn't make it to church this morning. I woke up early and turned off the alarm and then fell back asleep. Hubby, who takes less time to do his morning ablutions, made it to Sunday School without us. I will listen to the service on line as our community group study is sermon based. You can listen to it at http://www.west-park.org and click on sermon media. I love my church. It is soon to celebrate 50 years of age and I committed to praying for it every day for 50 days starting on October fourth.

Robert returned Saturday afternoon from his first men's retreat. They went to Fort Bluff Camp in Dayton, Tennessee. He took lots of photos for the church photo team and really enjoyed their speaker, Matthew St. John. You can read more about him at
http://www.pastormatthew.net/blog09/


We are plugging away on the homeschooling of Robyn. We are determined to do better this week and get caught up. We are a little bit behind schedule. She cannot play on any commputer games, Wii, Ds, etc. until she is caught up. She has agreed to this and understands.

Robert is going to attempt to fix our dryer this week. We are hoping it is repairable and we don't have to buy a new one. While he has the dryer pulled out of the laundry nook, I am going to clean, clean, clean in there and paint and would love to put down some inexpensive self-sticking tile to give it a clean and fresh appearance for very little money. I am sure we even have paint in the garage that we can use and not go to any expense there. It's a teeny-tiny laundry nook and you cannot clean around the appliances while they are in there. I am afraid to find out what is behind/beside that dryer and washer. Yuck. To be honest, we knew we wouldn't be able to clean, paint or retile until one of the appliances died. It's just that difficult to work in there. It's a closet really.

I am hoping that Robert will finish his carpet steaming and we can be done with that for the season, except for our master bedroom, which is not ready for having the carpet cleaned yet. Hopefully very soon though.

Well, enough jibber jabber about the happenings around my house. I hope all of you are enjoying your families, homes, and the beautiful autumn weather as well! Have a great week!

Pam

Whitestone Inn

I had the pleasure of attending our ladies yearly retreat yesterday. It was held at the Whitestone Inn in Kingston, Tennessee. God blessed us with a beautiful day. These pictures were taken about 8:30 yesterday morning. You can find out more about the Inn here http://www.whitestoneinn.com/ They perform a lot of weddings there.

Our guest speaker was Ruth Hess of Xenia, Ohio. I really enjoyed her and she had such an infectious laugh that just warmed your heart. You can find out more about Ruth here http://ruthhess.com/contact.html

I enjoyed a wonderful day of fellowship with the ladies of my church. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day.

Pam

Had a wonderful weekend!

Saturday evening I returned home from the Women's retreat. Our speaker, Gwen Smith, was wonderful and had a terrific message. She is a great singer and incorporates songs all throughout her teaching. I was really blessed by her and her testimony. There were door prizes and I won the $50 gift card to Salon Visage! Wow, I was truly blessed. I'll be making an appointment to get my little piggies done! Yay me!

On the drive up on Friday, Jami and I stopped by a cute little place in Chuckey, Tennessee called the Farmer's Daughter. It is a family style restaurant and boy was it good. We couldn't eat it all and had to get our dessert to go. Next door is the Mountain View Bulk Food Store. It is an Amish/Mennonite store. We spent at least and hour in there. There were homemade baked goods, cookbooks, all sorts of mixes, flours, breakfast oats, cheeses, cold cuts, jams and jellies, you name it. I'll definitely be going back. I came back with all kinds of yummies for my family. Yum-o!

I was so wiped out I missed Sunday School but felt like I had been in "church" all weekend with all these lovely ladies from my church. This is the fourth year I have attended our women's retreat and feel really blessed to get to go.

Pam