Defenestrate

So, Matthew and I left his parent’s home for the hotel last night, when we noticed that someone had broken into our vehicle. It was kids. They took a $10 charger and some of Matthew’s nice cologne. Then we got to the hotel and realized Matthew’s book was missing. That hit Matthew hard. The book was from his grandfather … a first-edition Louis L’Amour novel, “Papa .. well.” (Don’t quite remember the spelling.) Matthew was truly bummed.

Well. Happy ending. I walked out in the morning and found the book in the center console. Yeah! That book was irreplaceable. Matthew says no more taking his grandfather’s books out of the house.

Matthew got me a large picture of my favorite picture … the lady in red dancing barefoot on the beach. Matthew recieved a two-year subscription to “Woodworking.” That makes two wood-working magazines he gets. He is really exicted about that.

tonight at 5Pm. An SUV went through one of our Echo classrooms. (Echo= every child has opportunity). I am so thankful that the school was not in session as the accident happened around noon.

Anyway, it is a big bummer because it stops our ability to make that the music room. And we’ll have students with autism transitioning back into school after the break, as well as having to transition to a completely different classroom location. (a double wham.)

I don’t even know if the driver was injured …

Matthew and I are heading down to his family’s house for Christmas and then we’ll stop by my dad’s new place on Sunday. It will be a GREAT weekend.

Something odd has been going on over the past month. It really rotates around three things. (When stuff happens in sets of three, I have learned to pay attention.)

1) My mother’s Bible went missing and is gone.

2) The car that was my mother’s was stolen, totalled and recovered.

3) And the house where my mother died is no longer my inheritence. (I am okay with that.)

Okay. I’ m not okay with one … really big  issue with that. The lilac tree in the back yard. I almost weep every time I think about it. I’ll be calling my dad to see if there is any way he can dig it out and transplant it to his new home. It is that important to me. Or get clippings of it and start it small and grow it big again.

BUT I NEED SOME PART OF THAT TREE. I cannot stand the thought of losing it. I wish I could explain the history behind that tree, but it is very, very, very important.

Outside of that, trip to Mexico was amazing. For details, call me. (Too much to type.)

I went to a friend’s celebration of life on Tuesday. She was in my core group at Bethel church. Then on Saturday, I found out that another member of my core group had died that night before.

Bummer week.

Our core group had a meeting on Saturday to receive prayer and blessing and rebuke further attacks. It was a good time.

This weekend I will be writing mission trip support letters. I’ll be asking for prayer and financial donations as Matthew will be missing over a week of work and he does not get PTO.

Anyway, this is just a really quick update.

I am house sitting for a friend. The newest edition to her home is a pet bird. I was rather leery of it. Then it sat on my shoulder and gave me kisses. I actually liked it because it didn’t drive my allergies crazy like a cat or dog does.

At my job we are getting three new kids, but they will not all be here for about a month. Three new kids means at least two new employees as well. One of the people that we interviewed had amazing potential. He was quiet, informed and had worked with a the same population for a couple of years. He also has a younger brother that was autistic. (Big help) He just gave off a good vibe. We are all really excited to have him start at ECHO.

I am working with a completely different group of students this school year. Last year, my work assigned me to a young man that had a focus of only 8-10 seconds.  So, I had to do a lot of physical redirection. I am with a couple of kids now that function at a higher level, so it is a different environment.

I think my red station wagon is about to bite the dust. The seals are all going bad and she has over 185,000 miles on her. I just pray over her every time I get in her that she will make it through the day. If I do get a new vehicle, it will probably only be a small put-put scooter to ride in town. I see no reason to own a new or used car.

Outside of that, I am really looking forward to seeing my Dad at the end of this month. He is going to come up to Redding for the Blue Angels performance during the Redding Air Show. It will be very good to have some time with him to just relax. And we’ll cook for him. (Smile.) The only thing he may not like is that we have no Internet access at our home.