“Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust”*
by chuckofish
It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
Psalm 92: 1-2
And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;
To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning,
And Your faithfulness every night…
How was your weekend? We enjoyed another sunny, beautiful weekend in flyover country with plenty of patio sittin’.
On Saturday daughter #1 and I attended a special Flag Day luncheon at my DAR chapter. We both are officially members now, she in Jefferson City and I in the local Olde Towne Fenton chapter where you will recall I gave a talk about the Santa Fe Trail back in November. I knew not a soul when I joined, but I am enjoying this group of patriotic, history-loving women. My daughter, having been an active member of her college sorority, is even more at home in this organization. It is all new to me–the rituals etc–but I am learning the ropes.
Our becoming members was facilitated by my grandmother having been a member, since she had done all the work researching our patriot, Moses Wheeler. All I had to do was fill in the intervening years since she joined in 1938. I am looking forward to finding out more about our other family patriots, notably in the Carnahan, Putnam, Stanley, Tukey, Sargent, Chamberlin lines. (The Houghs were Quakers–I assume they didn’t fight in the Revolution, although some Quakers did participate, notably Thomas Paine and Nathanael Green.) It is good to have a project! Hopefully my DP will get involved as well.
The rest of my weekend was relatively quiet. I stayed after church on Sunday to attend the training class for VBS volunteers. Yes, you read that correctly. I volunteered to help with the Vacation Bible School being held the week after next. There will be 225 little kids (!) there, so they were desperate for volunteers! I heeded the call. I am the crew leader for a group of 4/5th grade girls. Zut alors! I hope I can handle it. Also it occurred to me (belatedly) that it will no doubt be 100 degrees in the shade and we will be outside the whole time…Pray for me.
Meanwhile, dear Katiebelle celebrated her 2nd birthday and I was sad to miss being with her…
…but we FaceTimed. We’ll see her in three weeks!
The wee laddie went with his dad over to Illinois across the river to the first ever Nascar race in that state. They even had pit passes. He was, of course, in hog heaven…
I mean, seriously. Ka-Chow!
*Isaiah 26:19
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