Well, it is with a somber heart that I write to you
today. There were two separate instances that happened in our country
this week that are terrible acts of violence which have made a huge impact on
the mood and spirit of this season.
Last Tuesday, someone entered the Clackamas Town Center and
opened gun fire near the food court. Two people were killed and one was
seriously injured before the gunman killed himself. Needless to say,
since it was so close to home, our nerves were a little bit rattled and the
news coverage was endless.
Until Friday, when another gun man entered Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and opened fire on children and
teachers at 9:30 in the morning. The stories are just now unfolding, but
there were 20 children killed and 6 adults, including the school principal and
counselor. It was found later that the shooter had previously shot and
killed his own mother in her home prior to his going to the school. This
guy was 20 years old and rumors are that he suffered from Asperger
syndrome.
Many stories of heroism are coming out now and the news
coverage is nonstop. Needless to say, my afternoon at work last Friday
was pretty hard.
Earlier in the week, I absent mindedly left my library door
unlocked (due to a series of unfortunate events) and that night while a 7th
grade basketball event was happening in the gym, some kids decided to walk
around the school and when they went into the library, they pulled two full
shelves of books onto the floor and got into my stuffed toys above my
cupboards, took down my SpongeBob toys and stole Patrick the starfish. I
wouldn’t feel so bad about it except those were toys that I borrowed from
Lainey’s collection here at home. Our principal and I figured out that
they had also been in the cafeteria and helped themselves to chocolate milk and
goldfish crackers. The nerve! Our principal has let facilities know
that if anything else happens, they will not be allowed to play basketball in
our gym after hours anymore.
So, anyway, then on Wednesday, our principal announced his
retirement! He will be officially retired on January 1st, but
will be at the school until the end of the school year. Bummer!
So, not a great week!!!!
I hope yours have been much better there!
We did something fun tonight, though! Tim Ray was
involved with the orchestra at the Portland Christian Center and they had their
Christmas Concerts this week and last. Tim invited us to attend and I’m really
glad we did. We just got back. Annie and Nick went with us as well
as Lainey, Calais and Aaron. We had fun.
We finally decorated the tree last night when we realized
that if we didn’t, we wouldn’t have time to until next weekend.
This coming week, Uncle Marty has double carpal tunnel
surgery on Tuesday. Grandma and Grandpa Inman are coming up tomorrow to
go with him. After he is discharged that afternoon, they are driving him
straight to North Bend to recover. It should be interesting for
him. No use of both arms for a couple of weeks…We hope to go down next
week sometime to join them.
Also on Tuesday is Century Band’s winter concert. That
should be fun. I love to go watch.
I think I told you that the adults in my family drew names
this year to help keep the cost of gift giving down. I drew Micque, so I
decided to make her a table topper quilt for her dining table. I finished
it last night at about 2:00am. I’m so tired today! I wanted to be
sure and have it ready for when Grandmas comes this week so she can take it
back with her on Tuesday and have it under their tree on Christmas day.
Anyway, here’s the finished product:
Sorry for the bad photo. The whites
are bright white and the outside edge of the quilt is the blue star. It
should look fun on her round kitchen table. Here’s a closer-up shot:
So Adam, will I get an email from you next week, or just
wait for Christmas day? Only 8 days left!!!!!!!!!!
I’m assuming we’ll get short calls in advance of Christmas
to let us know when and what number to call Drew and confirm a time for
Adam?? Just let us know and we’ll be more than happy to talk about it!
Sorry this email was a downer. We’ll work on better
news for next week!!
Love you tons and tons!!
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