When life throws you a curve ball.

So many days we get up and start our day, we have things planned out just how we want them. Sometimes we even have the whole week planned. Life doesn't always go that way, most of the time it's something small like Elianna has been upstairs looking for socks for 20 minutes. I go upstairs to find her sitting on her bed putting lipgloss on, no socks in sight. Or, Kalyn and Melissa decide that now is the time for one of those special teenage moments. We don't get out of the house on time or we just have to rearrange our plans. But today a major curveball was thrown.

As I sit here tonight, I am again taken back at how our "plans" for life can change in an instant. Melissa lost her husband today, the man she loved. Her partner whom she would grow old with. A wonderful father to her children. A man who touched the life of anyone he talked to. They had planned to go to the mall today with the kids. This is only the most recent in a number of changed lives, of days that were planned totally different.

I am comforted that with the changes in our plans for our daily lives we don't ever have to worry about a God who changes. He is always here for us, He is always strong for us, He will always be for us what we need Him to be.

Be strong and take heart all you who hope in the Lord. Psalm 31: 24.

Twilight Volleyball Practice

We are in full swing with Kalyn's volleyball season. The team does very well as a whole but they do not like mornings. They had a tournament this past weekend and left the school at 6:15 am. Thankfully we didn't have to leave our house until 7:30 (still toooooo early). The team didn't wake up and start playing well until about 11 am. Live and learn right. It's great to see these girls, most of whom have played since 6th grade improve so much over the years. One of Kalyn's evening activities after volleyball practice, homework, dinner and visiting with her mom is to practice her sets and hits with Jonathan. He knows so much about the sport and is always willing to give her a hand or actually two. She has said that she practices with Dad so that he can teach her what to do and then she practices with me just to go through the motions of what she has learned from Jonathan. I'm not sure how to take that but oh well.

So the girls were out tonight all playing volleyball in the front yard. Jonathan started with Kalyn, then he moved on to help Elianna and Kalyn helped Abigail. They took a volleyball camp this summer and learned quite a bit. Then they all moved to play together when Melissa came out to join them. I went for the camera, that's my contribution.