Greetings & Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers!<\/p>\n
Well I know it has been a while since my last posting so here I go!\u00c2\u00a0 We survived Christmas once again.\u00c2\u00a0 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not bitter!) did not exactly meet our needs so we took it back and used a ceramic Christmas tree in its place.\u00c2\u00a0 You can see the Christmas picture slide show here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 Like I said I love my job but on occasion it takes a wallop out of me.<\/p>\n 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.\u00c2\u00a0 I have done a conversion this month and a couple of trips to Paducah for training but that’s about it.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 So I got to stay home with the mopey animals for a change.\u00c2\u00a0 Jess is taking full time classes this semester again and that is taking a great deal of her time.\u00c2\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n As for the house everything that is left to do is detailed work and to tell you the truth I am a little <\/span>fried<\/em> on remodeling right now.\u00c2\u00a0 This in addition to the fact that everything I have left to do is detail work has really slowed things down a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 You just have to be in the right mind set to do that kind of stuff you know?\u00c2\u00a0 Last weekend Rick and I spent 10 hours hanging just the ceiling tiles in the family room drop ceiling.\u00c2\u00a0 We left the old grid up in the room from before the remodel.\u00c2\u00a0 Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just say that 221 cuts and tiles later we were done.\u00c2\u00a0 It did not take us very long to determine that the grid was about as square as an igloo!\u00c2\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n 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.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been pretty good so far\u00c2\u00a0God has given Beth Moore such a gift for delivering his word.<\/p>\n Besides all things listed above that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just about it nothing more exciting than just getting along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings & Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers! Well I know it has been a while since my last posting so here I go!\u00c2\u00a0 We survived Christmas once again.\u00c2\u00a0 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 … <\/p>\n