This entire year has blurred by with so much responsibility
and busyness… the first 5 months were
spent setting up house in a new country where we could not speak the language…holding a conference in Cambodia….3 trips back to Manila…back to Atlanta for a missions festival and then to PA take care of my dad. CQ to a board meeting in NZ etc…then we did have our month of rest in June, PTL! then to America for Andrew’s wedding…2 days later to our Jamaica church for their 25th…back to Cleveland to get girls registered to school and on shopping for school 3 days later to South Africa for CQ to teach every day for 8 days (i with a broken foot) then back to my folks for 3 weeks of caring for my dad then to Israel and Istanbul then back and on the road every weekend visiting churches not to mention keeping house and kids and all the activities involved in that…then to PA again for 2 weeks of caring for my dad in Oct…..and every weekend we were doing road trips to raise funds…..

Then back for a weekend bash of brooke’s bday first weekend of nov with about 15 extra teens in the house…..then to Emmanuel college for a week of spiritual emphasis that CQ and i did…then back to do a complete hysterectomy…We had a house full of company staying over for the next 2 months …..3 days after surgery back on the road for 8 hours to Alabama for dental work (free!) and to speak in a church. then back for thanksgiving then to a supporting church in Westminister Maryland and then to my parents for the last two weeks of caring for my dad……then funeral arrangements and taking care of my mom….and 8 hours after doing my dad’s viewing and memorial service i was driving me and my mom 11 hours to get to cleveland for Kristin’s speaking at her commisioning service. CQ came down with the stomach virus for the weekend and i had to put him on quarantine after Kris spoke ……Kristin’s graduation the next am..which CQ missed due to very sick…..then two weeks prep for Christmas which i was far behind on…plus a house full of company the entire time…..

That’s just a little detail about a few months. It is clear that we need to slow our pace in the coming months. We will return to Tennessee from April till the end of August ton complete our fundraising for the next two years and hopefully to get some needed down time.