An update

Here's the quick D. Stender family update:

Doug continues to see the country driving for Otter Tail Coaches. Last week Doug drove and I chaperoned the Fan/Band bus of Hillcrest students to a Hillcrest Soccer game. If Hillcrest won, they'd be in the state tourney. They lost. We are very blessed to have a special, caring and dedicated coach in Rod Jensen. One of these days, he'll have a team at state tourneys. It just wasn't in the cards for this year. They still did fantastic. It's an international team of Hillcrest U.S. students, students from Norway and others from South Korea. We are blessed too to have such talented students.

Carol: I'm still writing and am seeing the country. I hope to get a new and used car this fall...the car will most likely be used but it will be new to me! Need a good runner for all the miles I travel! I keep watching the weather reports closely since we will soon be bombarded with...gasp...snow and ICE. Hate the ice!

Andy: is finishing up the football season. He played on JV and their season is done but they play against varsity as the varsity prepares for its first tourney game this weekend! He works at Take 5. Busy, busy, busy schedule!

Jose: He's looking forward to basketball season. He enjoys hanging out with his friends, too. We have plans to paint his room soon. The couple who ran the orphanage, lovingly referred to as Papa Ed and Momma Rosa, are coming for a visit next month. In Fergus Falls, they'll visit us, the Prestons and Amy Twedt who operates the adoption agency that we used for the adoption. What a fun visit that will be! Such workers for the Lord, the Salas' are! (ooooo. That sounded like a Yoda comment!) Ed and Rosa will travel to Michigan and further for Thanksgiving before returning to Mexico.

And our elder crew:

Wayne and Nancy are super busy parents! Wayne works with ministry and peer ministry at Hillcrest. He'll be returning to Fergus late tonight from a speaking engagement in Seattle plus Hillcrest promotional trip. Nancy watches a little one and keeps up with their two busy boys! And it's all boys she watches! Yowzers! She also deans at Hillcrest dorms on Mondays.

JP and Julie are busy setting up their careers. JP works for Thrivent and somehow he weathered the parental storm provided by us as we looked into an insurance policy. You'll want to schedule an appointment with him...he makes GREAT coffee! And Julie is student teaching in Perham this fall. She'll be finished in early November and then can teach! What a great, organized teacher she is!

Well, that's our updates.

I don't like sharing

There are some things I like to share...
a recipe
a good book
a piece of Weight Watchers chocolate cake (that's a dream. I'm doing WW Core and bread or anything similar there of is a no-no)
But I don't like sharing colds.

I'm not the one who wants to share this thing...Andy gave it to me!

He was a very sick boy a couple of weeks ago. Severe sore throat and cold. A throat culture on, of course, when else do you get them... a Sunday morning in the emergency room (Do you hear the cha-ching, cha-ching of charges on that visit? It's resounding in my ears!) showed he didn't have strep but was definitely battling an infection.

After some hefty antibiotics, he's baaacckkkk! That's the good news. He slept most of the days he was home but, with the antibiotics, was coming around on a Monday and went to school the next day.

Glad he's back at it but now, I'm down for the count!