What we'll be doing: 2009

After a fairly-crazy 2008, we really wanted to hear God on what He wanted us to be doing in 2009. A good friend of ours (thanks Kerry!) offered to watch our kids so that we could get away to pray. :)

We, of course, had spent much time talking, thinking, praying during the previous months, but it was such a treat to be able to take a whole day together just to seek God.

We felt God speak and give us direction concerning several things -- some of our decisions being that Michael would staff SBS once again and that Amy would devote two mornings a week to working on Titus International stuff.

We are excited for the coming year and pray God will give us His grace and strength so that we may devote ourselves wholeheartedly to Him, to our family, & the ministry to which we feel He has called us! :)

Highchair hotel

OK, so you can all probably sense my fondness for creepy crawlies if you've read any of the previous posts (sorry, I know i need to branch out a little bit!), but this was amazing (in terms of downright nasty)!

We had been having trouble with our roach population for awhile, and noticed baby roaches often crawling on Nathan's high chair (wonder why?!)... we scoured his chair several times, but there was one section of the chair that was inaccessible, and thus, unwashable (not a real word, but you can pretend it is)... Well, one day Michael finally decided just to break the chair apart as we highly suspected this was the main source of the problem, and lo and behold, what we found!



The video doesn't do justice to what we actually saw -- 20+ live ones crawling around & about 15 egg sacs, and oh yeah, all the black spots? Yep... yummers! Yippety-DOO-dah!