Highlights

ok...i've been sick and cranky all day....i don't totally know where this post is going...but i decided i should at least start with some highlights and try to ignore the lowlights for a while...here goes....

Highlights of yesterday - Sunday:
1. Driving through the country to get to church in Edgerton
2. Getting to hold premie twins Macy and Mckenna (born a little over a month early - about 5lbs-and absolutely beautiful girls)
3. Talking to Julie - a lady who started a support group for mom's of service men/women who has recently become like my second mom
4. Finishing the Christmas tree with the fam.
5. Long conversations on the phone, with James, on the ride home
6. Listening to classic tapes/speakers/memories from childhood
7. Walks in the cold - yet being warm because you're with someone special
8. Hearing random "suggestions" from James' family...let me explain below

ok..quick story - so i was trying to give James a compliment by telling him that my mom saw the movie the incredibles and said "hey, from the back, james looks a lot like mr. incredible" ok...so we had a nice laugh over that..and just about to leave when James said, "hey, my family talked about you over break too." i knew it was going to be something either crude or random...and i was kinda right. evidently, his aunts were talking to him about us joining the military and having to go to war and stuff. his aunt brenda bluntly asked him about the military and pregnancy and such. so, James' blunt statement/question ended up being. (imagin this being said really non-chalantly) "So Jenn, if we've only been married for like four months, but you end up being sent to Iraq, can i get you pregnant so you don't have to go?" HAHAHA - for real...how do you even respond to something like that. o well...it was funny....not sure how i feel about his family asking him questions about that and deciding that he needs to "get me pregnant" but...o well...guess it's a family thing. in the words of michelle lundequam....goo!

-on to something a little more serious...here's a comment about number 6. i had a blast listening to music, radio shows, and speakers that i remember as a kid. really, the 5 hours went by pretty quickly and i didn't fight being tired at all. one of the tapes was of a talk Brennan Manning gave at a confrence in Indiana. another had a collection of "classic" Christian music - with a few hymns at the end. the hymns caught my attention....and this is not the first time in recent day's i've taken time to think about them. i guess church in G'ville reminds me too. there, we sing a couple of hymns and 'praise choruses' that i remember singing as a kid in the church. growing up, my mom was a choir director and my dad ran the sound system. music was a big deal in our family and we grew up with a constant flow of music in our house. i did not really notice that i had been affected and had fond memories of these times, as a little kid, in the church. most of the time, sunday ends up being SO comforting. i go to church and hear all the familiar songs, i didn't realize i knew so many hymns and verses of songs. i've been attending for close to two months i think...and i don't think i've needed the worship folder or the hymnal yet. this is not to brag by any means, but to just share with you my awe. it amazes me how the words of the hymns can just sink into you and that, even though i didn't understand the meaning of words as a child, i still have the words themselves ....and now can see them applicable.

alright, time for class...only 3 world religion classes to go...or something like that....blah....
J