Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2010
Okay, so tomorrow is going to change my life! Much like my life was changed over 27 years ago when Josh was born — tomorrow is the beginning of my life as a grandmother. I can’t wait!!! I loved being a mother — I loved it when my boys were small and to be honest, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2010
After being gone for almost two months, Wes is coming home! He has been backpacking around Europe. He lived at home for almost a year after graduating college, working and saving his money for this trip. I have to say I thought it was a great idea until he actually left—- no phone or computer– [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2010
There is a lot of conversation at our house about names. Mainly because Josh and Mindy are trying to decide what to name their baby — we don’t know if it’s a boy or girl, so they are discussing both. The trend right now seems to be for older sounding names like George, Matilda and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2010
My friend Gloria beat me in the grandma race!!! Her daughter was not due until November and her daughter gave birth to a little boy yesterday! Leyton weighed 2 pounds 10 ounces and is doing very well under the circumstances. Jackie, his mom, is still in the hospital trying to get her blood pressure down. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2010
Tomorrow Ryan, Rylan and Riyanna will be leaving to go live with their “grammy”. She is their paternal grandmother. She is very excited for them to come, and we are really excited that they are going to such a great situation. We spent 3 hours with the family at Ryan’s birthday and have come to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2010
I spent the weekend with over 200 women on a woman’s retreat with Irving Bible Church. It’s been a looooong time since I have been on a retreat! I had a great time with my friend Carolyn – we talked, laughed, shopped, ate, talked, laughed, prayed, ate, and then we talked, laughed and ate!!! We [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2010
Okay so we did trap the raccoon! The bad news is that he was able to get out of the trap—the good news is that he hasn’t come back! He is one smart raccoon. See I already knew that raccoons were smart because I am a huge fan of Where the Red Fern Grows!! In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2010
How sad that my life is consumed with capturing a raccoon!! He is still on the loose, only visiting at night to finish off the dog food! We got a trap from the city, but of course we couldn’t set it over the weekend, because they don’t pick up on the weekends and it would [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2010
I have never been to Haiti, but I really want to go. It’s an incredibly poor country and I think the opportunities for ministry are tremendous there. I would love to go and try to add a little laughter to the lives of the children there–after the recent earthquake, it seems that there is great [...]
Posted in Site News, Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2010
I have to admit that I am glad 2009 is over!! It was a tough year for the Rives family, but yet there were so many blessings also! Wray lost his job in January, but was able to find work in March–bad news/good news. His new job doesn’t pay much, but God has continued to [...]