I know...I know...

Ben and I having fun at May Rally '06.

Yes I realize this is the third time I've changed around my blog, and yes, I realize I haven't responded to your blogs, so of course I don't expect you to respond to mine. If it means anything I've been preoccupied with graduation and teaching, but I really am going to make an effort to revisit your lives and respond to your blogs while updating mine (yeah I know I sound like a broken record).

Sorry about the links...I botched things up when I chose a new template and now I have to remember who I had listed, track down all of your blogs and upload them onto my links yet again. Argh!

Yeah I know I'm pathetic...

Life Changes

So I've been away from the blogging world for awhile. After finishing my courses, I took off to visit my grandmother DeeDee on Grand Manan for a weekend with my brother and his wife and then I went to Sussex to visit my parents. While on Grand Manan I had a second opportunity to hear my brother speak about his missions trip to Africa, and I'm convinced I could never tire of hearing about his trip. It's just exciting to me that God has worked in the life of my brother and his wife and has revealed Himself to them in a real and fresh way.

While visiting DeeDee I was reminded of how quickly life can change. It seems like yesterday I was a child peering up at the counter as she kneaded dough for rolls and set it by the window to raise. Once the rolls were baked we'd pack a picnic lunch complete with fresh bread, red juice, and cookies and head for the beach with cousins and aunts. Now it is I who kneads the dough and bakes the rolls. The progression has gone from Dee Dee baking them with me watching, to Dee Dee helping me make them, to Dee Dee laying in bed while I make them. It is hard to see someone you love weaken in health. Life changes are not always easy to adjust to.

I am looking forward to summer. A summer without the stress of school. A summer where I can hopefully slow down a bit and take a day at a time. It'll be three years for Benjamin and I this summer, and I can't get over how quickly time has flown and how our lives have changed in such a short time.

And so I sit here in a mellow mood, thinking about life changes. There are other changes that are happening in my life, but an on-line blog is just not the place, as these are things that I would much rather talk about with a personal friend curled up on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate.

Thanks for checking in, and please be patient with me as I finally try to get around to reading and responding to your blogs.