At Breakneck Speed

Wow. I can't believe how much time has passed already -- or how long it's been since I've updated this thing. A month and fourteen days until I leave for Kenya, and almost that long since I've posted anything...

Life seems to be running past at breakneck speed around here, so, a quick update is in order.

Shoeboxes are over (8,925 boxes went out from the "greater Tri-Cities area." Just over 1,500 of those were Bethel boxes, which means a ship load of other churches and groups got very involved this year.) We lived down in the church for a week and, with assistance from a couple of clusters (who just happened to have leaders *cough* Gary and Phil *cough* who didn't want to load everything by themselves...), plus whoever else we could get our hands on, loaded three semi trucks full of packing cartons.

NaNoWriMo is over, and, after lots of frantic last day typing, I am the proud owner of a 50,000 word novel -- which now needs an ending and some serious editing before it sees the light of day...

Monday night childcare is over until February, so, me, Katherine, Tyson, and Shannon no longer get to torment children, and said children no longer get to torment us. Not real sure which direction around is more accurate.

CHECK is still going, and the World Vision Experience AIDS exhibit is right around the corner. Set up for it starts tomorrow! There will soon be an African village in the Fellowship Hall at church. I've been told it even smells like Africa, although I'm not real sure what Africa smells like.
I guess I'll find out tomorrow!

Now that I've overloaded you with information, hopefully, I will get back to more regular (and more interesting) posts.