Greetings & Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers!
Well I know it has been a while since my last posting so here I go! We survived Christmas once again. It was out first year without a Christmas tree since the pre-lit tree we bought ( I say we but it was my butt that was out at 4:30 in the morning on Black Friday, but I’m not bitter!) did not exactly meet our needs so we took it back and used a ceramic Christmas tree in its place. You can see the Christmas picture slide show here. I took or tried to take a little bit of time of around the holidays but that did not work very well I had to end up canceling one of the days because of circumstances at work. Like I said I love my job but on occasion it takes a wallop out of me.
This month has not been too bad the first couple of weeks of the year are a good catch up time; most banks don’t won’t you to bother them during their end of year process. I have done a conversion this month and a couple of trips to Paducah for training but that’s about it. Jess’s new job is going great in fact she went to Columbus, OH this week for a train the trainer class on the restraint of special needs clients. So I got to stay home with the mopey animals for a change. Jess is taking full time classes this semester again and that is taking a great deal of her time. Basically if she is not at work or church she is doing something associated with school, but to keep all these 4.0’s she must be doing something right.
As for the house everything that is left to do is detailed work and to tell you the truth I am a little fried on remodeling right now. This in addition to the fact that everything I have left to do is detail work has really slowed things down a bit. You just have to be in the right mind set to do that kind of stuff you know? Last weekend Rick and I spent 10 hours hanging just the ceiling tiles in the family room drop ceiling. We left the old grid up in the room from before the remodel. Let’s just say that 221 cuts and tiles later we were done. It did not take us very long to determine that the grid was about as square as an igloo! We are going to work every third Saturday to keep things moving but I really hope to have this thing done by the end of summer.
Jess & I started a new Beth Moore Bible study at church last week this one is open to both men & women on the book of Daniel so we took it together. It’s been pretty good so far God has given Beth Moore such a gift for delivering his word.
Besides all things listed above that’s just about it nothing more exciting than just getting along.