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Update
As far as the blog goes I just haven't felt like blogging lately. I'm going to try to get back into it more in the next few weeks.
Here's a brief update of what's been going on lately.
Isaac is doing well. I do have one thing that I have been praying for and would ask you to do the same. He still currently has his central line and it limits so much his freedom to be a little boy. He can't play like the rest of the kids at recess. This weighs heavy on Melissa and I. We want him to feel normal. Pray that his B cells kick in so they can remove the line. They say it can take several years to kick in and this year will be three since his transplant. He has to keep the central line until he doesn't have to have infusions of medicines. Which will continue until his B cells kick in. I think about this alot.
In other news he had his first ever spend the night experience the other night with a friend staying over. Many people would take this for granted but this was the first time he has been healthy enough for something like this. They had a blast. We took them up to Charlotte to some race shops on Friday and stopped by and visited with our friends at Hendrick Motorsports.
On the house front, I moved the last load of stuff tonight. We are officially moved. Also, we signed a contract today to sell our house and it closes in a month.
I have been drained the last couple of weeks with the crud but I'm getting over it now. Things are starting to look up.
I've learned and discovered a ton of things in the past year and hopefully in the next month or so I'll put it all down in a series of posts.
Here's a brief update of what's been going on lately.
Isaac is doing well. I do have one thing that I have been praying for and would ask you to do the same. He still currently has his central line and it limits so much his freedom to be a little boy. He can't play like the rest of the kids at recess. This weighs heavy on Melissa and I. We want him to feel normal. Pray that his B cells kick in so they can remove the line. They say it can take several years to kick in and this year will be three since his transplant. He has to keep the central line until he doesn't have to have infusions of medicines. Which will continue until his B cells kick in. I think about this alot.
In other news he had his first ever spend the night experience the other night with a friend staying over. Many people would take this for granted but this was the first time he has been healthy enough for something like this. They had a blast. We took them up to Charlotte to some race shops on Friday and stopped by and visited with our friends at Hendrick Motorsports.
On the house front, I moved the last load of stuff tonight. We are officially moved. Also, we signed a contract today to sell our house and it closes in a month.
I have been drained the last couple of weeks with the crud but I'm getting over it now. Things are starting to look up.
I've learned and discovered a ton of things in the past year and hopefully in the next month or so I'll put it all down in a series of posts.
My Rant On Nascar
In light of Nascar calling the race early here are a couple of my rants regarding what is supposed to be Nascar's biggest race of the year.
1. You have billions of dollars. Use some of it to buy a weather forecast from Jim Cantore and The Weather Channel. If the forecast calls for rain later in the day then maybe you should cut out 3 hours of the pre-race festivities, concerts(I want to watch Nascar not Keith Urban), flyovers, Mike, Larry, and Darrell's pre race pre race to the pre race from the Hollywood Hotel. Seriously, it's you're biggest race of the year and because of all the pre-race junk it's not a complete race. What happened to the days of noon starts? If that had of been the case the race would be complete.
2. If you have lights at the track what is wrong with waiting until 2 a.m for a restart. Come on Mike Helton. And I qoute "the fans had already seen some good racing and we may not get the race restarted until 11p.m." I think that was the same thing that MLB said a few years ago when they let the All Star game end in a tie. That is my new philosophy in life. Every time I go to the movies now I'm gonna get up and leave about 30 minutes from the end and say I've already seen some good parts in the movie. Your rationale makes no sense.
3. What does it hurt to wait a couple of hours and see what the conditions are like then? We've waited 3 months to see a good race, what will it hurt to wait a few more hours?
Oh well, there's always the beginning of the cookie cutter series of tracks to begin next week. Someone at Nascar in their infinite wisdom thought it would be awesome to make 75 percent of the rest of the tracks identical. This is good because I can nap between the start and the finish and not miss a thing until Nascar throws the fantom caution with 18 laps remaining in order to bunch the field. That way they lead us to believe that their was some exciting action taking place because 32 cars were within 8/10ths of a second of each other at the end.
Thanks goodness for Darlington, Bristol and Martinsville. Bring on some real racing. Greenville Pickens opens up in mid march this year. That is about it and I feel better getting it off my chest.
1. You have billions of dollars. Use some of it to buy a weather forecast from Jim Cantore and The Weather Channel. If the forecast calls for rain later in the day then maybe you should cut out 3 hours of the pre-race festivities, concerts(I want to watch Nascar not Keith Urban), flyovers, Mike, Larry, and Darrell's pre race pre race to the pre race from the Hollywood Hotel. Seriously, it's you're biggest race of the year and because of all the pre-race junk it's not a complete race. What happened to the days of noon starts? If that had of been the case the race would be complete.
2. If you have lights at the track what is wrong with waiting until 2 a.m for a restart. Come on Mike Helton. And I qoute "the fans had already seen some good racing and we may not get the race restarted until 11p.m." I think that was the same thing that MLB said a few years ago when they let the All Star game end in a tie. That is my new philosophy in life. Every time I go to the movies now I'm gonna get up and leave about 30 minutes from the end and say I've already seen some good parts in the movie. Your rationale makes no sense.
3. What does it hurt to wait a couple of hours and see what the conditions are like then? We've waited 3 months to see a good race, what will it hurt to wait a few more hours?
Oh well, there's always the beginning of the cookie cutter series of tracks to begin next week. Someone at Nascar in their infinite wisdom thought it would be awesome to make 75 percent of the rest of the tracks identical. This is good because I can nap between the start and the finish and not miss a thing until Nascar throws the fantom caution with 18 laps remaining in order to bunch the field. That way they lead us to believe that their was some exciting action taking place because 32 cars were within 8/10ths of a second of each other at the end.
Thanks goodness for Darlington, Bristol and Martinsville. Bring on some real racing. Greenville Pickens opens up in mid march this year. That is about it and I feel better getting it off my chest.
Frozen Mayonaise
Some of you wanted to see the clip of Cathy Rampey eating frozen mayonaise. It's about midway through this clip.
Hesitation
Genesis 19:6 When he hesitated.
Powerful words. Lot had been told to grab his family and flee the destruction of Sodom. At a time when he should be doing the right thing, we read the words....When he hesitated.
Lot had just set a horrible precedent of hesitating to do the right thing with his wife and daughters sitting on the front row watching. Powerful stuff. When I hesitate to do the right thing, the people that it impacts the most are the people right beside me, my wife and son. How about you are you hesitating on doing the right thing? You don't have to make a wrong decision sometimes just that hesitation in making the right decision is what hurts.
120 years No Growth
I was reading the other day in Genesis and this thought hit me as I was reading about Noah. Noah preached righteousness according to 2 Peter 2:5. The thought that hit me was this. Noah preached righteousness for 120 years but yet didn't have a single person place their faith in God. All of the "church that isn't growing isn't a success mentality" that is prevalent today would probably condemn Noah as being an irrelevant epic failure. So that begs the question do numbers always equal success or is it our obedience to what God has called us to do as the thing that matters most. Something to think about.
Sidenote- I am not bashing any church that is growing with their numbers that have increased. Heck, we started with 6 people and have increased many times over. I'm just wondering what is our measure of success. Is it that our numbers have increased or that we have faithfully fulfilled the part that God has called us to.
Latest Really Random Post
Church was packed Sunday. That was cool to see. Been praying through a bunch of stuff. Now I am waiting. Patience is hard. Your prayers are appreciated.
Been praying for wisdom also as to friendships. Trying to filter through true friends from people who only call you when they want something. This is something I want to be also. Not just someone who only calls when they want something but a real friend.
Moving into the house next week. If you're up for a moving party, then I'll be moving so bring the party. The moving houses thing is awesome because it is going to save us money each month which is always a good thing.
Isaac is doing better. Got his report card. 4 A's 1 B. Awesome.
Melissa hit a mailbox yesterday. mailbox ok Passenger Mirror Not Ok
I need sleep. Haven't slept but 3 hours each of the last two nights. That's about it.
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