Moving and Grooving

Hello loverlies! I just finished moving into my lovely little apartment (which some will be coming to visit tomorrow:). I'm headed back over there shortly to start unpacking and a friend is going to help me paint a wall ridiculously red. I'm starting to feel a little relief now that most of the moving is done and finals are over, but alas...that whole trip to Europe is starting to faze me now:).

Here's a website that you guys can check out while I'm gone to get updates on my group (we're the Italy to Switzerland group) - I'll also update this blogger, or maybe just email, but this might be fun too:

http://www.georgefox.edu/juniors_abroad/

sorry...i don't know how to make it a link:( i guess you'll have to do it the old fashioned way and type it in the browser.

Good Day in Winston

What a beautiful day we had for traveling to Winston! We had a good time, too. Grandma enjoyed visiting Aunt Myrtie, and vice versa. Aunt M isn't doing very well. Her back bothers her a lot, and she is very lonely down there all by herself. She sees her son Melvin once in awhile, but she isn't driving anywhere except to the post office or store in winston. If she needs to go to Roseburg for something, Melvin or his wife go and get her, but they do the trip and then take her back home and leave her alone again. We feel really sorry for her. But she won't consider moving to Eugene. I really don't know how much longer she can live alone there.

We saw lots of people we knew from the school, and that was nice, and we had lunch at the Winston park which brought back lots of memories of last days of summer when your Daddy was setting up his classroom and we'd go to help and play at the park for awhile, etc. It was pleasantly warm and Daddy had fun playing soccer with the kids. It was nice to have the two classes mingling and getting to know each other.

Tomorrow we go take some furniture to Joann for her new apartment. She's been sick. Hopefully she's feeling better now. She leaves Tuesday for Europe.

Love you all!
Marmie

Hot Days

Our days are full. All of us. Remember the days when we had time to stare at the stars, linger over family dinner, and sit in the living room with a book to share in the evening? I guess our days were full then too, weren't they? I'm just feeling challenged to revel in the moments I have each day. So many memories were built in those days. Every day had potential to be remembered fondly. Some of my days in recent years have seemed too pointless to remember. I want to be able to say "remember when?" about every day. Maybe it's the engagement speaking...or the upcoming departure of Joann for the trip of a lifetime...or the upheaval of Danny and Betsy's lives...maybe it's BLOG, whoever he is...

Ah...no more waxing philisophical tonight. I have memories to make!

Posting Photos

In order to post photos, I host them on my server, then create a link in my blog post (go to blog help and click on "posting and editing", then "How do I post pictures?" for a sample and instructions).

Speaking of photos, here is one from the shower on Friday.

The Whittaker Times

Just thought you all might want a link to our website, hopefully I will be updating it with new prayer requests and updated information.

The Whittaker Times

Enjoy!

Pictures

So, Bethy, how do you put the picture on?? Do you have to publish it somewhere and link to it? Or can you post it directly to the blog?

Yummy Visit!

Well, Mommy just left after a wonderful visit! Thanks for the pie!

Life is crazy here, trying to get everything done that needs to be done.

Our church is beginning a walk through "The Purpose Driven Life," will be interesting to see how God works.

Oh, great news from here, I wrote a check this morning to finish off the payments of our school loans!! We are now DEBT-FREE!!!!! PRAISE GOD!!!

Love you all, back to work now!