March 10, 2008

• Days go by, Seasons change

  Our lives and the business seem to be going through yet another major change. Growth spurts in the company are usually paired with lots of extra work for us, and usually new personnel which then results in a time of us being able to “take it easy” for a while until the next big change comes up. A couple of the biggest changes have happened within a week or so. We hired a new couple on, plus another guy, lost an employee and last but not least John is leaving for Africa this coming week.

  I am working with training our new guys, looking for another employee, and doing a really poor job of Managing Customer Service inbetween. John has needed help tracking down misc. items for his trip. I still need to mix him up a “potion” for mosquitoes I came up with. He’s still bringing a commercial hunters bug spray liberally infused with Deet as backup but wants to give some natural stuff a try first. I think we finally got him everything else, now he just needs to pack. Going to miss that guy around here! A month will probably fly by though. If you think about it please keep him lifted up in prayer for his health and safety this coming month and for his team mates as well. Some of you may be familiar with Gospel Link and Dean Kershner. He is going to be traveling with that orgnization in a group headed up by Dean. Should be a fantastic experience for him!

  Got back into baking bread for the past couple of weeks. Steve’s parents have a wheat grinder and Bosch mixer that they haven’t used for a while so graciously have allowed me to borrow it until they want to use it again. It’s been nice having delicious homemade bread in the house again! Although quite honestly it does make me feel like a steriotypical homeschool graduate baking my own bread with freshly ground wheat. lol Cooking more “naturally” has been going a wee bit better lately. It has been helpful to get a lot of foods out of the house. If they aren’t around I’m not tempted to “cheat” and use them. Also made my first batch of cultured Sour Kraut. Made it nice and spicy for Steve based off of a South American Recipe taken out of Nourishing Traditions. Am trying to learn how to make one new recipe a week out of that. It is a GREAT book for those of you who are not familiar with it! Like a cookbook/text book on good nutrition and healthy eating all in one.

  Noelle continues on her quest to gain enough confidence to strike out on her own walking. She still occasionally takes the random step or two by herself but by and large prefers to have something close by as backup incase she loses her balance. Poor tyke has learned the hard way it’s just not worth falling too many times on our hardwood floors. She now has two bottom teeth incase I forgot and omitted that milestone in a previous post. Is working on a top one now. Her new favorite past-time is blowing kisses. She blows a kiss where most of us would say “Thank you” She is soooo cute puckering her chubby little face up and making a loud kissing sound. Just take my word for it that it is truly one of the most adorable things ever! Even from this admittedly very biased perspective.

  I spent this weekend being a totally lazy bum. We had planned on going hiking if the weather cooperated but we ended up getting snow Friday, Sat. and today. It has melted away but the cold/gloomy weather and a mild case of depression were enough to make me want to do absolutely nothing.

  Here’s hoping things get a little easier this next week.

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