Family

Well, the last of the family visits for a while ended today, and I must say, the one thing that I miss most living in Kansas is being near to family.  While it was good to see all three sets of grandparents, and one set of Aunt/Uncle/Cousins, it was bittersweet knowing that the next time that we will likely see them, Isaac will be 3 months old.  Though they will see pictures of him as he gets older, maybe even see him on Skype via webcam occasionally, it just won’t quite be the same.

This is when it is hard to follow the call God has given us.  We love our church home here at Grace and I love serving as worship director, but I do miss being surrounded by family.  I guess that’s probably because our whole lives growing up we were surrounded by family.  Even when Eric and then Mom moved up to the Des Moines area, I was still around Aunts and Uncles and Cousins and church family.  Then when I married Jodie, all of her family was there too.  Despite feeling welcomed here in Manhattan, it just feels lonely sometimes!

Well, this is getting depressing.  My whole purpose here was to just write and say how wonderful it was to see everybody over the last couple of weeks.  Of course, if you are family, and you didn’t come down, remember, you’re always welcome, and there are even some that I would be happy to sing a Selah duet in church with if they decided to visit us sometime…… :-D

So, until then, keep checking out pictures of Isaac on www.psalm127mom.com (we’re not posting a whole lot of pictures on Facebook.  I have issues with their privacy policies, and frankly, it creeps me out a bit that though you can “remove” pictures from your profile, you cannot remove them Facebook’s server).  Also, if you are family, and have Skype, let me know and you can see Isaac sometime!