Wide Eyed Wonder

While I was heading out the door for work this morning, I had an old Choir song in my head so I grabbed my old Wide Eyed Wonder CD by The Choir and listened to it on my way to work. Like so much of the Choir's music, it is moody and haunting at times, but also very thought-provoking.

Wide Eyed Wonder is the first Choir album I ever owned. I first bought the tape, but I now have the CD (although I don't remember where I got it). It was released almost 20 years ago now (1989), which makes me feel pretty old! In terms of the music, it's some of the best alternative ("Christian" or not) you can get from that era. I am definitely biased since it's what I grew up on. Still, I would reccommend it to anyone. There is a copy available on eBay right now.

Busy Week

This week has been not a little bit out of the ordinary. Angie was out of town from Friday, August 1st until last Friday. She went up to Sup. for her cousin Kelly's baby shower, and then ended up staying because her Mom had major surgery. The van also broke down so she would have had a hard time coming back w/o a car.

I was here with Alec and Zach until Wednesday, when they went up with their Grandma to visit with Phil and Eva and baby Avery. Thursday I managed to get the lawn mowed and tried vacuuming out the scum from the pool because of my previous neglect of it.

Unfortunately, it looks like we might have to drain it out for the year. I'm going to have one more shot at cleaning it out tonight.

Angie's Mom is in ICU from her colon surgery. We're hoping and praying she will be though the worst by later this week.

The van is working now that the head gasket has been replaced (to the tune of $1500!!! - that would have been a nice flat screen TV...)

Alec is off his Seraquel and doing great!!! This is a huge relief for both Angie and I. We were really not keen on having him on anti-psychotic meds since he's just a kid. We're thanking God and continuing to pray for him in this regard.

Angie's Grandma Shoe and Aunt Wendy are down for a buying show. They stayed over last night and might stay again tonight.

First Day of School 2007 - Video

I made this video last year and I figured I should post it since it would otherwise not see the light of day. This was Zach's first day of kindergarten and Alec's first day of second grade.