I have been thinking lately too... the last few years my husband has been on the school board of our small Christian school that is associated with our church as the secretary. Things have happened and after 30+ years they asked the headmaster to step down due. It was a very hard decision for the board and not all of the board was united in it. There has been mess from the fall-out of it and where the board had hoped some people would take the high road there has instead been things slung and things said that should not have been on the part of the offended and the offended's family. We did not understand why we were experiencing what we were not just as a family but in general. We did not understand why people who were life-long followers of Christ would respond in the way that they did and not try to take the high road in an increasingly difficult situation.

It has been watching that experience that has helped me process things. I know that the people directly above my boss are not "out to get us" I know that one in particular I would assume would have the employee's best interest at heart. I know that it is a business and that part of business is having to make cuts when necessary. Come on, my husband worked for Sprint for years, if we don't know about lay-off's then I will never learn about them, they are king of lay-off's here in town. I get all that... what I don't understand is what is perceived by me as deception. I would be curious to the higher-up's stand on things because I know because of the school there are always two sides of every story. I have also watched like I said things be said and people hurt by those things, that is a huge lesson to me in watching what I say. Am I perfect at this, no, I slip sometimes and lash out like I shouldn't and I apologize, but in general I have held my tongue in amazing fashion, especially when around customers or others. Just know that God is doing a work in me and I will come out the better for it eventhough once again the lessons He wants to teach are not necessarily lessons I would choose to learn.

The kids said something cute the other day... When our power went out during the storm last week we heard this loud BOOM! I went outside but could not see anything so my best friend Anna who was over (because they were without power also) said, "It must have been a transformer that blew." The kids got all kinds of worked up, Abby said, "I am scared!" Calvin and Gideon were both asking, "Is it out front? Is it in the back? Did you see him Mommy??" It was then I realized that they thought there was a huge robot on our street... oops! I told them, there are no robots, it was an electric transformer. That settled them down some but it sure did lighten the mood... no pun intended!