I've been so busy this past month between the vacation and Jim's father's funeral last week. He died on Friday, August 26th as a result of his Parkinson's progressing to his lungs. His muscles which controlled his swallowing no longer worked. Jim and I were relieved when he passed and his soul went to a better place. He and Jim's mother are together again; waiting for us to perform their temple work.
Their was family drama of course. Jim and I held Noah's baptism on Thursday, September 1st, the same day as the funeral, in the hope that both sides of our family could make it. Jim's brother Skip decided to hold a family barbeque that same night, so NO ONE from his family came to Noah's baptism. Carol then had Tony call Jim to inform him that we were not invited to attend once the baptism was over!!
Tony was upset and wouldn't tell Jim what changed her mind, but told them to call us. Like that's going to happen!!! We don't have time to worry about that....
The baptism went really well. I sang the hymn, "Let the Holy Spirit Guide," by myself without music because I didn't have time to practice with the piano. Harry Karotosis gave a wonderful talk about the Holy Ghost before my song. I was supposed to give a talk about baptism, but didn't have time to write one, so I asked one of the elders there to give a quick talk.
Seth and Noah missed a week of school while we were away, and I'm so glad they are back in school. They NEED the time away from each other and to learn their academics. I still hope they can do the LDS cyber school someday when they have better control over their emotions.
Well, I need to go clean now, but I hope to come back here soon.
