I'm in a reflective mood

It used to be that once school and the church year started, life got really crazy. Now, maybe because the kids are older, it is really crazy before school starts. Everything is due, or needs to be finished, or needs to be filled out, or there's a meeting, or there's an appointment, or a rehearsal, or funeral, or family reunion...I don't remember August being like this before. Maybe I'm just not very perceptive or maybe my memory is bad. Maybe I need to start saying "no" when asked to do stuff. Oh well, maybe I'll get it right when I grow up.

I thought the family reunion was pretty good. I never thanked Deboe for making the new trophies. They were beautiful and I think that will be a great new tradition for the shoe kick. Thanks, Deboe. I also thought that going around and telling about our families was very cool. I'm grateful to Scott for starting it. I have this feeling that if one of us Simon girls had tried to start it, we would have been "laughed off", if you know what I mean. Anyway, that was a good result of the rain!! We did miss all the absent family members though. It seemed like a much smaller group to me this year. I go back and forth about how I feel about the family reunion. I usually do not look forward to it, but then when I'm there it turns out to be a fairly good time. As Jan said, there really aren't many families who still do this. There really aren't many families who choose to spend a week vacation together either, so maybe we are just really different! Actually I like to think that we are very fortunate and blessed to have such a great family.

As you might have guessed, work is slow and I'm the only one in the office, so here I sit, blogging. If I seem a bit reflective today, it is probably because we do indeed have a funeral to go to today. Dorothy Sabend, a Perseverance member who sang and rang for many years, died. It seems to be especially hard when the older folks from Perseverance, who of course took the closing the hardest, are starting to pass away (four in 18 months). It brings up a whole lot of mixed feelings of regret and guilt and sadness that we closed the church that they had worshipped, worked, prayed, sang in for so many years. We moved on pretty easily compared to those folks. It will be good to see many of them at the funeral. (By the way, Dorothy was the person who many years ago, when I was talking about something that happened at Wisowa, said, "Oh you mean in Tomahawk? We used to vacation there!" To this day I can't believe that other people besides us went there. It was ours!!!)
Time to go, thanks for listening to my ramblings. Lots of love! Chrissie
PS Happy Birthday Ronnie!!