Steph,

Sounds like things are busy but balance is a priority with you and from
your post it seems you are accomplishing just that. We don't aften feel we
are in th emidst of busyness, but sometimes hindsight we look back and see
we did the best we could and it was in fact pretty darn good considering.

Brad


stephanie wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>At least I am back... life just seems so busy lately I wonder where all the
>time goes. Frankly I'd been struggling lately because it just seems that
>sometimes
>I want the world to slow down so I can just do nothing for a day. Don't
>think that makes sense, but anyway.
>
>On to my news and rambling of the last week. I went performing Thursday
>week ago, and it wasn't as good as the last time before that. I was told
>that I
>couldn't talk about God much, and to be careful what songs I sang...
>Tolerance and needing to have diversity were the reasons. I don't mind
>that, but it
>was so hard given that Christ is such a large part of my life, and
>therefore I felt I had to compromise my music. But I got through it
>although I was told
>one of my songs was too strong. I have another one on Sunday (they are a=in
>nursing homes btw) and I am not allowed to do any Christian content at all,
>it's a Jewish home... I still have no idea what I'm going to do.
>
>Michele is going fantastic but I'd had interesting times with ehr lately.
>She has started rolling both directions and is becoming more and more
>mobile everyday.
>Add to that teething again and you get the edia. Her sleeping patterns are
>totally messed up... has up to 4 naps a day, wakes at night and the only way
>I can settle her is to give her a bottle... I am so worried about creating
>habits but at the same time want to meet her needs. Trying to work out the
>best
>approach is a nightmare.
>
>Stan's work is going well, but well it's going to get very busy next week.
>He is at school next week learning about the new trains they have. It's 3 days
>in the classroom, after which there is a computer exam. After that there is
>a practise exam, and then they need to test them 6 weeks later to see that
>they can drive the train. The work is extremely intensive, like a uni couse
>and Stan will need a lot of prayer to get through this. I also am going to
>need prayer because with the millions of things that need doing each day I
>need to make sure I meet his needs to study etc, that I am not demanding with
>my needs or him looking after Michele, and I want to have things move as
>smoothly as possible.
>Well, that is probably the longest email I'd ever written.
>Take care,
>Steph

Brad

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