Snowtubing Bound!

Hey everyone! In less than 48 hrs I will be happily whizzing down the the slopes on a tube. Yeehaw! I can't wait, neither can anyone else in our family! Maybe I should have said neither can anyone else I've talked to! We are leaving at 4 a.m. Saturday. Fun. I hope we survive the trip. On the way home people will probably be pretty cranky. But it will be worth it! The boys will be in a different vehicle so we won't have too many cranky folks in our van. (Teenagers don't get cranky when they get tired they get silly, and goofy and crazy.) We are going to have fun... just as soon as Tonya and Amber get used to each other. That shouldn't take too long hopefully. :-) After tubing the plan is to get lunch together. I don't know if we're going to find a restaurant that will have enough room for all of us. Sister Tonya said that 50 or 60 young people are going. You guys can all tell what is on my mind today. I'll write some more later after snow tubing.... :-)

Hello

Hey everyone. Ok so my life in the past week. (Some people are just glutton for punishment!) LOL. Anyway, I enjoyed my quiet Saturday last week and am enjoying another fairly quiet Saturday this week. Sunday we had a good service at church. That evening the Sandy's were back again. Tonya and T.J. came and spent the night with us. We had a good time. The public school kids didn't have school Monday or Tuesday. Monday was Lee/Jackson/MLKJ Day and Tuesday was some sort of teacher work day. When we got home from church Sunday night we decided to pull out the glow in the dark football and walk the not quite a block to the Libray field and play a game of football. It was just after midnight but no one had school the next day and we were very quiet. We didn't talk except in our huddles and then we whispered. Anyway our team, Zach, T.J., and I, just got the kickoff and Zach ran it back for a touchdown. The other team wasn't happy with that so we were going to kick it off again when suddenly our eyes were blinded by a bright light. A policeman was standing there holding a light almost directly into our eyes so we couldn't see anything. He then said, "I was just checking to see if you had an adult with you. Because if you hadn't you would have been in big trouble with me!" We used to have nice policemen in Crewe that were actually from our area and could connect with the people. Now they have started importing foreigners that don't know anyone. When we had first started playing I had seen a car drive up and sit in the parking lot for about 5 min. before they drove off. Dad said they must have been the ones who called because none of the neighbors complained. We went home and played quieter indoor games untill we finally headed off to bed. The next day we had a good time playing cards and hanging out. Later that afternoon we went to the baseball field and hit and fielded the ball for a while. I'm usually not too good when it comes to baseball but I actually did really good that day. When Bro. Tony and Sis. Gayle picked the kids up they stayed for dinner. Then we played games and laughed and laughed together. We always laugh when we get together. Anyway Tuesday we had to go to Richmond for an Ortho appointment. We did some shopping and errands that needed to be done. Then Wednesday we had VLB service. I used the title " It's time to clean house!" It went pretty well over all. Then Thursday I had to work at Mammom's. We got cell phone upgrades in the mail that day as well. The new cell phone is really cool. It has a camera and bluetooth technology. It's pretty neat. I do like our old ringtone better though. Friday we had piano lessons and I did fairly well. Today I am having a quiet restful day. Tomorrow I have to teach Children's Church and then the young people are going out for pizza. We are going to have fun. One last thing... Only one week till Snowtubing!!! Yeah!

Too Busy to Blog

Hey everybody! I know all of y'all are probably thinking ok what's her lame excuse for not blogging this time but, I actually do have a pretty good excuse for not blogging. I simply haven't really had time. Of course there is also the fact that Beth and Micah have discovered some kids site and are on as often as they can get permission. Then there is the fact that dad has been downloading something again and you really can't do anything when dad's downloading. It all adds up to a very poor excuse for just being too busy to blog. Someone not too long ago remarked to me, "Blogging is supposed to be about your daily life." Well my comeback is this, "I Charity Baldwin in my full senses and right state of mind, if any state of my mind could actually be right and some people could argue that I probably haven't be in my full senses for years, nonetheless, do hereby initiate a new state of blogging, WEEKLY BLOGGING, or more often if I have the time and actually want to use it blogging." How does that sound? O.K. so I might not post for 2 weeks or so every now and then but weekly is a whole lot easier than daily. You mean old person who insisted that blogging was supposed to be daily. You know who you are and you have no room to talk! Anyway with how busy I've been I don't really have much to say except that I've been bugging all of my VLB's about going tubing and guess what it's paid off! I sent in the form yesterday, and we had 10 names on the list. YEEHAW! Moreover they are excited about it! Of course you guys know that we make up 7 of the names but that is still 3 more than we usually get. Tonya and T.J. Sandy and Amber are coming! Yeah! Oh right, I also spent several hours being walked through uploading pics by a friend of mine and it was to no avail. At least now I know that it wasn't my fault. My computer is kinda messed up so I can't download pics until my friend figures out what could possibly be wrong with it. Thanks anyway, Josh. In other news I had piano lessons today and they went over pretty well. Oh yes, yesterday we had some Bible study during school and I am totally convinced as to the usefulness of my study Bible. It has a strongs numbers next to main words in each verse and in the back it has a strong's dictionary and a lexicon! Not to mention several other study helps! I love it! It has everything together and makes studying more convenient. Anyway studying the words in the original languages really makes the meanings clearer. For instance We were studying Matt. 5:1b-2 and I decided to look up what I thought was a fairly small word because it happened to be underlined in my Bible. The word was came. Pretty straightforward right? Wrong. In the Greek language the word meant and implied, "to come to worship in one mind and accord with the one you are coming to and the other worshippers." It implied several other things as well that simply amazed me but I can't remember everything now. I was certainly glad I didn't pass that word by because it was small. It opened up a whole new understanding to the meaning of the verse and made it a lot clearer. I would encourage every one to get a Strongs Concordance and a Hebrew Greek Lexicon if you don't already have one. They are very valuable to anyone who enjoys studying the Word. I guess I started teaching there. Well anyway I need to go. I was going to go with Daniel to hand out tracts. G'bye.

Happy New Year!

Ok so it's kinda late to be saying Happy New Year, I mean it's the 5th already, but I'll say it anyway! Happy New Year! Ok so this might be another late past-due post that I frantically write away at hoping somehow to redeem myself from my positively hopeless state of non-blogging. But if it's anything I hope it's interesting if not somehow somewhat entertaining. :-) Please forgive all use of improper punctuation and spelling. Grammar is definitely not my strong point! Though I have to say that I'm getting a kick out of this new spellcheck system the new blogger has. It's a lot more convenient than it used to be. Anyway to stop this aimless rambling and terrible waste of time, how did your New Year's go? Ours went well. We had a Watch Night Service at Church. It went really well. We had 3 sermons, a lot of singing, several testimonies, and even a couple of auxillary boosts! Grandpa called Sunday afternoon and told Mom and I both to get a boost together for WMB and VLB. Not fun. I must have looked pretty funny up there behind the pulpit, my hands gripping the edges of my new study Bible so hard my knuckles were turning white, stumbling over my words, while my knees knocked fiercely together. Yep a pretty entertaining sight! Though I have to admit that I must have done a pretty good job of hiding my nervousness as no one seemed to notice. Amy, I did get pictures of our service but as usual this terribly dense, when it comes to computers, girl once again could not get her pictures up. I followed the directions exactly crossed all my t's and dotted all my i's but still it doesn't want to cooperate! I think that computer geek that Becki Horne is always talking about is up to his old tricks again. Or it could be that I am even dumber than I myself comprehend. Somebody please help me! I really really want to post a picture but this computer won't let me! Someone should give me simple step-by-step directions that anyone can understand so I can at least figure out if it's me or my computer! Ok I'll calm down now. Anyway back to New Year's. After the service we had snacks and fellowship. The Sandy's were there. We had a great time. Tonya came home with us and spent the night. The next day New Year's we had a big supper. The rest of the Sandy's came and Pappaw came. Mammaw wasn't feeling to well so Pappaw carried a plate home to her. We had a great time with the Sandy's we hadn't had them over in a long time and we used to get together all the time so we really enjoyed our visit. (Wow, talk about a really long run on sentence. What can I say I have a gift for it!) Anyway they didn't leave till fairly late. Wednesday was VLB service but our pastor decided to send everyone up to Lynchburg instead. Brother Carter was there for a 2 night revival before Men's Retreat. I have to confess that since I was appointed as the local VLB leader I've only conducted one VLB service. That sounds terrible but it can't be helped. We didn't have service the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, then in December we had play practice one night and I was sick the next, then this Wednesday we went to the revival. Everyone was very happy to resign my teaching for Brother Carter's annointed preaching including myself! Brother Tony and T.J. drove up with Pappaw to the revival. They seemed to enjoy it. T.J. of course sat with us kids. He seemed to enjoy the service. Now I found that I'm repeating myself. Anyway I had a not too bad but I've done better day at piano lessons. This afternoon after I finished School and before I left for piano I mixed up a batch of cookies for Dad and Zach and Daniel to take with them to Men's Retreat. I should have had just over 4 dozen but when we packed them up to send I found there were only 31 cookies. I'll I have to think a while to figure out how that happened. hmmmm :-) I didn't have time to make more so the boys only had 31 cookies to take with them. Oh well, they'll have plenty without the cookies. Micah is excited because he is the "man of the house" and gets to take care of us girls. It's pretty funny. You think he would feel left out but he couldn't wait for them to get out of the house. Anyway this weekend it's just Mom, Beth, Micah and I. It seems really quiet without Zach continually blowing his trumpet or his harmonica. Or Dad and Daniel coming up behind some unsuspecting victim and tickling them and poking them. I kind of like the relative silence although the I would miss them if they were gone any longer. I remember what Daniel said before I left for Ladies Retreat when Mom and Dad were gone. He said, I'm going to miss you Charity." I asked him why and he replied,"because Bethany can't cook very good yet." Today he says, "I'm glad we get to get away from all these women." I think he would miss us if we weren't around. Anyway, I probably need to let everyone get back to there normal every day lives now. Oh yes, curiosity compels me to ask who all is coming on the youth snowtubing trip the 27th? We are all planning to go. I hope it works out. It's going to be a lot of fun!