One Step Towards Green

One Step Towards Green

It’s a little thing, but I’m proud of it. We bought reusable, earth-friendly grocery bags. Kroger had them on sale for a dollar, so we picked some up, and used them. That’s 8 less bags that Kroger will have to order per trip. Seeing as we go to the grocery store once per week, we will [...]

Local Raceway Practices Good Business

Local Raceway Practices Good Business

Some businesses operate with the belief that good business is only based on how much profit they can make. They forget that good business also means dealing with customers in honest and moral ways.
As hurricane Ike approached our area, gas prices began to soar. The price of gas from the gas station down the street went from $3.47 to 3.79 on [...]

Woohoo! I Finished CPE!

Journal: Friday, 8/22/08
It has been a long, exhausting summer, but I have just received my certificate for a unit of CPE. CPE has been challenging. I did CPE because my conference requires it. I didn’t see exactly why I needed to go through a program that would take 12 weeks to teach me how to visit [...]

Celebrating a Scholarship

Celebrating a Scholarship

Journal: Tuesday, 8/19/08
Tonight I went to a banquet that was a celebration of the Karl Stegall Seminary Foundation. I receive scholarship aid from this group every quarter. It started out with Dr. Stegall asking members of his church to sponsor a seminary student. Sponsors would pledge to support that seminary student with a monthly gift, [...]

On Starting Kindergarten

Journal: Monday, 8/18/08
Last week was another busy week that seemed to fly by. My son, D3, had his first whole week of kindergarten. Like so many things in life, school is something that you cannot truly understand until you get to do it. He was in preschool, so he was as prepared as he could be. [...]