GONE

Yep yep..we are getting ready for our much needed vacation with the Frasers!! We have been best friends with the Frasers for 23 years and NEVER gone on vacation together!! We are STOKED!! Seattle here we come!!!! All 4 of us are ready to just get out of town and put aside our "real lives" for some R & R together...we are going to go to Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle and San Juan Islands...going whale watching, fish catching on the pier at the fish market, going to the ocean shore to get shells, going to eat lots of fresh seafood and drink LOTS of Seattle coffee!! But MOST of all enjoy the company of our very best friends for one long week without ANY interuptions!!! Take care.....

Monkeys

"When we sit down for half and hour - without talking to someone,listening to music, watching television, or reading a book - and try to become very still, we often find ourselves so overwhelmed by our noisy inner voices that we can hardly wait to get busy and distracted again. Our inner life often looks like a banana tree full of jumping monkeys! But when we decide not to run away and stay focused, these monkeys may gradually go away because of lack of attention, and the soft gentle voice calling us the beloved may gradually make itself heard."
Pray for Stan and Debbie Ball, Emily's parents, Stan is not doing well at all and is going to have another operation this week. I cannot IMAGINE living with cancer for this long. They have fought a very brave and good fight. That is what we do when something we need,deisre and love is being threatened by being taken away from us,fight....