New and newsy stuff!

It's already June. I feel like I've been very remiss here. I had a good Memorial Day weekend with my aunt and uncle in the Dayton, OH area. My uncle works at Wright-Patterson AFB and has for as long as I can remember - first as a member of the AF and now as a civilian. Anyhow, there is a air museum there and I have not been since I was a little girl, but my uncle has been volunteering there on weekends for several years now. Since we had a 3-day weekend, we went a spent a couple hours going through. It was nice to have our own personal tour guide so we could keep up a nice pace and he hit all the highlights and answered questions for my aunt and I.

I also want to give tribute here to my parents - they celebrated their 39th anniversary on June 1! They said they went to a really nice French restaurant for dinner and had a really nice time. Yes, a French restaurant in Chiang Mai. I praise the Lord often for giving me to parents who love Him wholeheartedly and serve Him diligently. I am blessed to have been raised in a loving home that follows God in everything and I congratulate them on all the hard work over these 39 years and pray that they will continue to enjoy life together and reap the blessings they have sown in not only my life, but the lives of so many others. Thanks Mom and Dad - I love you!

And speaking of my parents, tonight I'm heading to Memphis to do some research for them tomorrow. After much prayer and discussion that have determined that they will not be building a retirement home on the lot they own at Hot Springs Village. They have decided that they will find a CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Center) that runs the full spectrum of independent living (in a stand alone home or duplex or townhouse) to assisted living to nursing care to alzheimers care. This is the type of place that my grandparents chose many years ago and has been a blessing to them as well as the rest of our family. I'm sure it will be the same for my parents and our family too. So that said, the search has begun. They've had many packets of info sent to me and I'm going to be visiting as many places as I can to gather more specific info and get a look at/feel for each place. Then they will be able to narrow it down some and will do their own visiting next year as they travel the States.

I'll be back in town tomorrow evening in time to go to a game night for my new Sunday School class. This will be my first social activity with the class and I'm looking forward to it. It is at the home of one of the girls in my small group Bible study (which I started May 24), and she only lives about 10 minutes from me. I'm feeling at home now in this new place and am intending to join the church this Sunday. I also spoke to another girl in my Bible study who is a choir member and I'm planning to go for the first time next week. Once again the Lord has been faithful to lead me where He wants me to be and all is good. It feels really good to be back involved and attending on a regular basis. My singles class does a lot of mission projects and I'm looking forward to participating in many of those as well. The church as a whole is very mission minded and does a lot of mission work here in the community, in other states and around the world.

Well, I need to get back to work and finish up some things before I hit the road tonight. Thanks for checking in - please feel free to leave me comments, thoughts, questions, or topics you'd like to hear my thoughts on. I really enjoy hearing from you too!

Blessings on you and yours this weekend!