Beaming!

An e-mail that I received from my Medical Transcription instructor gave me great joy after stressing out over doing my best on my assignments along with everything else that needs to get done. Here is what she said:

Hi, Lepidoptera! I have your reports graded and the scores recorded online. Your scores were probably the best I’ve seen for the first time, so good for you! There were just a few minor things, but I’m sure those will be worked out in no time. I will get these mailed to you in the morning. Have a good week!

Go to the ant!

We have been listening to a Judy Roger's CD called "Teach Me While My Heart is Tender" just about every day since it arrived. If you are not familiar with her music, go to her website where you can listen to samples of the songs. If you have children, rush right over there and check it out now. We have been very pleased and are already learning some of the songs. Thank you, MT, for recommending this music to us!

Recent happenings

This week the LP actually took some interest in potty-training and went ALL BY HIMSELF!

Lepidoptera: That's great, son! That's really, really good. Mommy is so happy that you pee-peed in the potty all by yourself!

LP: It's amazing!

Yes, it really was, and we are still waiting for his next amazing performance.



Today we were cleaning the house and getting ready for company. Sarah's new chore has been sweeping this summer. Requirement: the kitchen floor under the table (where food is likely to be dropped on a regular basis). Today a new assignment - sweep the entire kitchen floor. As she sweeps, I busy myself with the changing of the bedsheets and hear Sarah and Leora's (who is unloading the dishwasher) discussion in the kitchen.

Sarah: Oh, I am worn out. I have worked so hard.

Leora: I am worn out too.

Lepidoptera arrives on the scene to admonish her dds that life is not so bad: Who do you think has swept all of the floors in the house in the past? Who is going to sweep most of the other floors in the house today, not one, but several, when you are finished sweeping?

Sarah: I didn't know that you worked so hard.

Hmmm, what did she think that I did all day?

What's in your backyard?

While perusing our backyard one fine day, what did we discover? Tadpoles. A bunch of tadpoles. They are living in a water cooler full of rain and doing very well. When we go outside, they are a source of great interest now for the whole family. We have never had tadpoles before! Do you know what they eat?

A moonbow?

Sarah and I completed the Which Way USA? Kentucky book recently, and we both learned about the moonbow, a rare sight sometimes seen at the Cumberland Falls State Resort Park. It's the only place in North America where a moonbow happens regulary.

VA update

Mt. Olive asked OBT to be their interim pastor from September through December of this year, and he has accepted. Please keep us in your prayers as we will be making several trips back and forth in the coming weeks. Please also pray for this church as we seek to serve them to the best of our ability.

Back to school

OBT and I have been talking and praying for some time about finding something that I could do here at home. Something besides what I am already doing here at home. Because of this I have signed up for a medical transcription course through Gatlin Education Services which should last through December. This is the first step. After course completion we'll see where it takes us.