It’s a long slow beautiful dance...

The beloved br--I mean cat has returned. Hugo has been living at some neighbor's and eating well. He was here at Thanksgiving and was fine when Jessica came, but when Rex came, enough was enough. He was not going to live with two dogs. We haven't seen him since then until yesterday. Already he's made several trips inside. :)

My grandma came out of surgery well. For those of you who haven't heard, my grandma S. broke her leg Saturday. It was a pretty major break in her lower right leg--both bones broken, with a total of four breaks. However, she was able to stand up today, and that's a good thing. She should be coming to the hospital in Sabetha Friday.

It's December, and I'm planning my summer already. I would like to go to TFY (Theological Foundations for Youth) in Pittsburgh, but that's three weeks out of my summer. I should get a job and all that fun stuff, but if I go to TFY, I probably wouldn't be able to do so.

Last week after the final Kreyole class, we were hanging around the church visiting. The Swifts sadly (to us) have moved to South Dakota, and they were in town last week to pack up the rest of their stuff. Well, they have a set of identical twins. I was talking to them, and they took off crawling across the floor. However, one of them had trouble making it to his destination. He ran straight into Lydia. Then he tried to pull himself up and discovered it was a face he didn't know!

Here are a few of the cool things I've learned recently:

Erasmus said, "I would to God that the ploughman would sing a text of the Scriptures at his plough, and that the weaver would hum them to the tune of his shuttle...I wish that the traveller would beguile the tediousness of his journey with this pastime. All communication of the Christian should be of the Scriptures."
I agree that we should spend much more time studying the Scriptures. However, does that mean we should spend all our time studying it? Should we neglect our schoolwork or our jobs to study the Scriptures all the time? David did say in the psalms that he loved to meditate on God's Word both day and night. It's an interesting point to consider.

Second thing I learned is this: "You create parallel structure in a sentence by using the same grammatical form to express equal, or parallel structure."

...Well, so maybe I didn't just learn that, but it was still cool. :)

My next assignment in history is to write a 5-7 page essay on the Christian influence of the Constitution, the Amendments, and the Federalist Papers No. 10 & 51 over time. Therefore, you should not expect to see me tomorrow, and if you do, please ask me why I'm not working on my essay.

Countdowns:

• 3 days before they busiest day of the month (TubaFest, girls' Christmas tea party, church Christmas party
• 8 days before Eric, Lydia, and I take the train to Colorado.
  

Wow, this was a really long post. I hope the next ones won't be quite this long.