| | Friday night Jim and I traveled to Pittsburgh because Brandon was going to be there with Acquire the Fire. I was very glad I was there in time to hear Nick Vujicic - a 25 year old man without any arms or legs... truly an inspiration to all. When he told us to look into his eyes and see that he is truly happy, it touched me. After the program was over for the night, we went to Brandon's hotel and then walked a few blocks to a pizza parlor and had a late night dinner and talked. After we went back to the hotel, we stood int he parking lot and talked some more. It was great to connect with him.
I will see Brandon more this year than in the last 6 years! First he and Jen came up for Thanksgiving, then this weekend, and we will see them at Bethany's wedding... I love it!  We had our sign language program (Silent Hands) on Saturday and everything went without a hitch - a few mistakes, but that is to be expected. There were 13 of us performing - 2 songs had all of us on the tiny stage together. We had a standing room only crowd, (114 counting the camera person and his wife)
served a hotdog and salad dinner before and an ice cream social afterward. Everyone seemed to have a great time. 
We have a few followers from our church... I am afraid to say that people in our church don't come out much for special programs. That's hard for us ... to get people to help in the kitchen is difficult. However, my heartfelt thanks go to Sally, Sue, Mary Jane and Betty - they always seem to be the ones to volunteer for the difficult duty of kitchen work.
Most of the people that came were from 2 other churches in the area, and family of the young people we had join us, so we are touching other people's lives. I am not sure, but this may be the last time Mariann will be with us signing. That will be a great loss.
I hope that she will be able to sign in our church one more time as she has a beautiful song that has to do with communion she signs and it looks beautiful. Her hands are very expressive.
Had I known, or been told that the choir director/organist was off for a few weeks for knee surgery, I would have volunteered to have Silent Hands perform an anthem. But I wasn't aware of the change, and no one approached me about it.   I had a great Mother's Day. I received flowers from Jim, and from Mariann(she also gave me 2 gift cards  ). Bethany called and Brandon texted. Jim took Nana and I out to an Italian Chop House for dinner, then we popped into McDonald's to see Mariann, pick on her a bit, and have dessert (the McCafe Mocha is delicious!) (Bethany sent flowers, but I didn't get them until Wednesday - I don't know when they arrived, Nana put them on her table and forgot they were there.)
Now that the Silent Hands program is over, I have to get to work with fencing, and moving the larger animals around, clean the barn, the chicken coop, etc. Yesterday I was trying to get a hold of a duck when she headed down the mountain. Knowing she wouldn't walk back up, I had to chase her down to the creek. This is quite a ways down a very steep mountain with a lot of underbrush ( thank goodness it isn't in full growth yet). My dog Duke stayed with me the whole time... but he hasn't been taught to herd anything, so he was just there for moral support. After the duck was finally caught, I then had to head back up the mountain, duck in hand... much harder going up than down. I was thinking how many times the kids worked together when chasing an animal... being by myself made me realize that I need to get Duke trained to take place of the kids! |
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