Since I haven't updated since March, I thought I should put something down.  Life has been pretty normally recently.  It's been lot's of fun seeing our two lovely daughters growing up.  Jolynn seems to be coming up with new things to say every day.  It's hard to believe she is 2 already.  And Carina is so much fun these days.  She will be 3 months old on Sunday.  She loves being talked to and responds by grinning ear to ear and cooing.  Being a parent is a great joy and blessing.
   Work has been busy lately.  Several of the districts I shipped books to have set a bunch of new displays recently, so I am needing to send them more books more often.  We also are setting a bunch in our district, so the service guys here are using more books as well.  There are two young guys from church helping out over the summer, so that lightens my workload somewhat.
   Well, I need to run.  "Talk" to you in a couple months.

Hi everybody,
   Looks like it's been way too long since my last post.  I don't really have much to say.  However, I will say that it's really hard to believe that after tomorrow it will be only 4 weeks until Noami's due date.  Then again, if this baby follows in his/her big sister Jolynn's footsteps, it could be born in two weeks.  No matter when, I just hope that everything goes well and that God blesses us with a healthy baby.  I think health, whether it's our own or our children's, is something that we take for granted too often. 
   This week is fairly normal here at work, with not many books getting shipped out and not many shipments coming in.  That's fine by me, since the last several weeks have been crazy busy.  Between helping price and send out skid loads of books to Southern Cal for over 100 new CVSs that are getting set, and filling orders for other districts, I was pretty much working non stop.  It didn't help matters that I took off work this past Friday afternoon to help my dad cut more firewood.  But even with taking off half a day, I will still able to get my time in for the week.  
   Well, I need to head home.  We have to be at my parent's place in about half an hour for supper.  So I need to scram.  Have a blessed rest of the week. 

   Well, since it's Thanksgiving time and we are in OH with not much going, thought I would blog a little bit.  Life has been pretty good recently.  Naomi and I are involved in an ensemble at church.  We had been practicing for the last several months on about 8 songs that we sang this past Tuesday at our church's Thanksgiving service.  The program went well.  It was fun to give a program again.  It almost felt like being back at SMBI.   I would think the next thing we will be practicing songs for would be Easter.  
   It's hard to believe that in another month it will be Christmas.  I am already dreading having to listen to Christmas music for a whole month.   I mean, there are only so many Christmas songs and I, for one, tend to get tired of them after awhile.  Christmas is a good time though to remember and be thankful for our Saviour's birth.  It's also nice to have an excuse to get together with family. 
   Well, I should go.  Have a blessed rest of the Thanksgiving season.  Darrell

New Experience

   Well, today I experienced something that I hadn't experienced before.  And that was finding out from my dad that my grandfather on my mom's side of the family passed away this morning. It didn't come as a shock to me, since he had been suffering from dementia for quite some time now, plus he was thought to have had prostate cancer as well, though it was never really diagnosed.  And he had been really going backwards in the last week and a half after he and Grandma went to spend some time at one of my aunt and uncle's place.  They had done that so that there would be somebody to help Grandma, since Grandpa was needing almost 24 hour care.  But I guess he knew that he wasn't at home anymore and was so homesick that he went downhill fast.  So even though it's sad that he's gone, you are glad that he is in his real home now, as my mom put it.  No more suffering. 
   I haven't heard yet when the funeral is going to be.  We are having revival meetings at church this week, so Naomi and I probably will have to skip a service or two.  Anyway, you can pray for my family, and especially my mom.  Dad said she is taking it pretty hard. 
   Well, I should head to my earthly home.   Have a blessed rest of the week.