Thursday, November 30, 2006

Where's Walker?

It has been 2 whole weeks since I posted. Mark, I appreciate your comments. Your prize is coming soon. "Its a Major Award!!!!"

So where have I been the last two weeks? Thanksgiving took a big hit and so did Christmas shopping. I have been going outta my head trying to figure out how I am going to get everything done that I need to do. Its just outta control. I have come to the conclusion that it never really stops.

I also wanted to see how long it would take for people to notice that I wasn't posting up here, and as I figured nobody reads this so nobody said anything. I guess my life is just not very interesting.

So I think I am going to change the title again to the Blog that nobody reads. I think that it is more theraputic for me to share my thoughts anyways. Its one way that I can communicate with my wife too since we work opposite schedules. Maybe eventually my life will get interesting and people will want to read it. I guess I do have to give credit to Mark because he has actually commented twice. I owe him a prize.

I wish I had more time at home to BLOG because then I could put some cooler stuff up here. Currently I only BLOG from work so I don't have access to cool videos and my pictures at home. It will get better at home when K.C. starts sleeping all night. Hopefully very soon.

Ok, so that is my update for now. Catch ya later.

chris

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Title Change - Can You Hear Me Now?

I have decided to change the title again because I often get the feeling that I am just blabbing to nothing but the wind. I sometimes wonder if anybody out there is really listening. Am I not speaking loud enough or to the right people? Is it too much to ask to hear a response? Sometimes I feel this way with God, but for the most part, He is good at responding. Sometimes it is better if he waits to answer because it will make more sense later.

These feelings really come to me when I see what is really happening in the world around me. It is painful sometimes when I pay too much attention to the world and I see the pain around me. It also hurts when I see people who are completely blinded from the Truth. When I put on my God spectacles, everything is very clear and simple and there are so many people missing out on His love. Yes, it is discouraging and frustrating when I am trying to fight the good fight, but I know that the war has already been won. My goal is to draw people to the side of Victory.

In light of things at Park Ave., I am beginning to wonder where my next step in Ministry will be.

Update on happenings at Park Ave.

I have to update a little on our church Board Meeting last night. It was budget night which is never a very fun meeting. We are really going to have to cut back on things this year and it appears that we are going to have to cut salaries as well. This of course will be decided by our Staff Parish team. This does not bother me too much as long as they do not cut the Position of Youth Director all together. I know that we have a smaller group, but it has become a very effective group lately. It takes time to build a good fire that will not flame out quickly. I still feel that there is work to be done there, but without the position I am not sure what will happen. So I have a feeling of insecurity over the whole situation, but if that opportunity goes away, then it will allow for more time at home with my family.

The part that really hurts us I think is the fact that our budget is being cut by 66%. I find that it will be very challenging to do a lot of things we are used to in the past. I believe it can be done, but I am not sure how attractive our ministy will be to our Youth. This is all really my core human being reaction to the whole situation. My mind is already trying to come up with solutions to the new obstacles. And if you know me, I can really dig in for a good challenge. Nobody said this would ever be easy.

So I have to say that I do have some peace about the situation. I will leave the decisions up to the church. It is their responsibility to prayerfully consider what is best for Park Avenue. God will provide what is needed to continue to minister to our kids even if it isn't through Park Ave. It is not my responsibility to look after them all of the time. God is in control. I choose to server Him wherever He will have me.

Please pray for our church and our ministries.

Chris

Christmas Music - Friday @ Noon.

Tomorrow one of the local radio stations will begin broadcasting Christmas music all the time through Christmas. The launch is at noon tomorrow. I like this because I am a big fan of Christmas music and I don't have to worry about having cd's with me. Plus you get a pretty good variety. Check out 99.9 FM to hear it tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

My Space Update.

I don't know if anyone noticed, but I updated My Space with a new template and song. I hope that you like it. I need to update my picture again too in order to go with the theme. Let me know what you think either by commenting there or here.

Chris

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

40 Days Until Christmas

Yes there are now only 40 more days left before the big day. You know I like that Christmas stuff. Now I just have to figure out how I am going to accomplish everything between now and then. At least Faith isn't pregnant and tired or sick. I should have my helper elf back in action this year. I also have 2 little helper elves in training. Ephriam loves to help me when I work on stuff. Eventually I think that he is going to be my tag along helper.

So it has been another typical work week. We have been a little busy with things, but not too bad. The time seems to fly by when Christmas is approaching. I only have 3 Youth Events to run and that is it for the year. I think that I finally have my Christmas list done, but I am sure that I will add to it as time goes by. We are doing our shopping for the kids this weekend. That will be a lot of fun. I have one of the toy boxes almost complete. These things are monsters. But they should be pretty cool when I get them done. Well its almost time to leave work. Gotta go.

Chris

Monday, November 13, 2006

How did I end up with such cute kids?


Ok, I know its because their Mom is such a hottie. Although they say that my son is my little clone so I must have something to do with it. These are pictures that they had done today and I made Faith send pictures to me at work so that I could see and post it. I just can't get over how big they are getting. Well, there isn't much that I can say to make them look any cuter, so I will just let the pictures speak for themselves.
Chris


Friday, November 10, 2006

Guess what starts tonight?????

The Bearcats play their season opener tonight against Howard University. It will be interesting to see how things go although I am not too worried about Howard U. I was looking at the pictures of the new players since I don't know anyone on the team anymore and its a whole bunch of new faces. I have to admit that I still have the itch to want to see them win, but I have really toned down how I used to plan my life around the basketball schedule. I really like Mick Cronin and I think that he will be successful at UC, but I can't stand that Nancy Zimpher. What can I do?

Have I mentioned that I like weekends? In about 3 more hours my freedom begins. I actually have a Saturday where I don't have much planned. Now we should be past the kidney stones thing cuz they always mess with my free Saturdays. So I am hoping that nothing crazy comes up this weekend. I really need to get some more things straightened up in my basement and I want to get started on the toy boxes. I need to put together my list of things to purchase and go pay a visit to Lowes. I have some plans that I am going to modify a little to make it simpler. Hopefully I am capable of making these things. So I kinda have some plans for this weekend, but its nice that I don't actually have to go anywhere.

Well if you think to watch the Bearcats tonight they are on local channel FOX 19. Hopefully it will be a good game for them to get used to playing together.

Have a good weekend.

Chris

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Uh Oh, I missed more days.

It is so funny how I have a hard time posting to this BLOG just once a day when I read several other BLOGS that post between 5 and 10 times everyday. I guess its all about time.

I post to this BLOG in between things that I am doing at work. Sometimes I can write it all at one time and sometimes it takes me a couple of hours because I get busy with work. So far I have spent about 45 minutes typing out these few sentences.

I keep telling myself that my time will free up more as the kids grow up a little bit. Ephriam is pretty easy to look after as long as you pay some attention to him. K.C. can still be very high maintenance, but she is getting better about playing in her seat and sleeping longer at night. Eventually we will get there. It will get interesting when Ephriam and K.C. start playing together. Ephriam has become much more into her lately. He gives her hugs and sometimes tries to cuddle with her a little too much. We still have to be careful, but I haven't seen him take a swipe at her head lately. I need to put up some of the newer pictures of them. I should make everyone who reads this BLOG give me suggestions about what pictures to put up here. Just comment on the page and let me know.

Well, I am going back to work now. It took me an hour to complete this entry.

Chris

Friday, November 03, 2006

Ack I missed a couple of days.

Ok, so Wednesday, Faith had surgery to remove her kidney stone. I worked from home for the day, but my break time was all used to help keep up with the kids and take care of Faith. Yesterday she spent a lot of time resting as she recovers. It is very painful what they do to you to remove kidney stones. I hope that I never have to do that. Anyways, I feel like I have been busting my butt a lot lately between regular work and stuff at home.

Last night I picked up dinner, cleaned up dinner, protected Faith from Ephriam's atomic splash hugs on the couch, did laundry, comforted K.C. when she had gas, took a shower, and made a quick trip to Meijer. That is a lot for an evening. Somewhere in there I checked email and ripped a few cd's as well.

So life is busy as usual. Tomorrow, I get the day off from the kids because my mom and I are making our annual Christmas shopping trip. It is always a good time for us to get together and we go to the Outlet Malls up towards Columbus. We don't get there very often so its cool to go to the different stores. I also get to start listening to Christmas music officially.

Ok, so that is today's update.

Chris