Cousin's Camp 08

I'm taking a week of vacation this week. but I WILL be at choir rehearsal Wednesday night You'll notice I didn't say a week off from work. There is definitely a lot of work happening on Bear Hollow. It's Cousin's Camp week! Five cousins under the age of 6. Woohoo! They are almost 6, 4 1/2, 2 1/2, 22 mo., and 17 mo. At any particular time there is always someone needing something - usually the toy someone else has, but often a drink or a diaper change or a trip to the bathroom. In fact, you must be very careful not to ever say that is where you are going or you will end up with a lot of company. Because someone always notices if you are leaving the room, if I ever accidentally say out loud "I'm going to the bathroom," I very quickly add "BY MYSELF!" That sort of helps.

Yesterday we went to Lil Smith's new restaurant, Jubilee Plantation, I definitely recommend eating there! I don't necessarily recommend going there with 5 children. You can find Jubilee Plantation t 1050 1/2 Riverside Drive. (Go to Big Lots and look over to the right.)

I don't generally take pictures of my food, but you must try these - Fried green beans! (This is one of the things I really like about the South. We can fry anything! And it's delicious! I've even seen fried cream corn. It's amazing to me that they can bread creamed corn. It too is delicious.

But I've gotten off track.

So, anyway, we'll see how often I post this week. I'm really wanting to post about my new campaign to change "w" from a consonant to a vowel, but that will have to wait.

You can keep up with Cousin's Camp 08 here if you are interested. http://www.papalyndel.blogspot.com/ Have a wonderful week! I am!

A Proud Director

I didn't have my camera in my pocket - and it would have beena bit awkward to take a picture of the choir while I was directing and they were singing in a worship service, but I wish I had a picture of this morning's choir. They all looked great in their red, white and blue. and they sang absolutely wonderfully! What a great sound. It's so nice those rare times when the 9:00 choir and the 10:30 choir get to sing together on a Sunday morning.

So thanks to the choir for singing and watching and following. Thanks to Tony for running sound. Thanks to the tech guys running cameras and computers and all. It was a great morning.

A Red White and Blue 4th

I tried to post this last night, to wish you a Happy 4th, but the internet at the Town and Country Motor Inn in Mountain Home, Arkansas isn't very consistent. Oh my! Read about it here.



So we drove for 7 or 8 hours yesterday and I entertained myself by taking pictures of things that were red, white and blue. (I was wearing my seatbelt, I just pulled it down a little for the picture.) Do you see the state flags from Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas? It was a long day.



I hope you all had a fun and safe 4th of July. I'll see you in the morning (at 8:30 if you are in choir).

What To Wear

I've found some neat ideas of what you all could wear this Sunday morning when we sing Truth Is Marching On.





What do you think?





Here's maybe a better idea.

Wellll, maybe not this exact look...

Let's all wear white shirts/blouses and dark blue or black pants/skirts. Then you can add a red, white and blue tie if you like.

Stained-glass Class Update

We needed a third night to finish our stained-glass panels. If you've been following along, you know that we are making lovely little windows of a cross. Our students picked some beautiful color combinations and have learned so far how to cut glass, cut lead and put the window together. Last Monday I was headed to the FLC for our last class when I remembered that my camera was on my desk. So I headed over to the office building.

(For our readers around the country - and the world - our office and main campus buildings are about 5 miles or so from our new Family Life Center.)

So I rushed into my office. (Cheryl will have to tell you the story of the manager she was dealing with at work that made us late.) "Oh, look! There are some of my tools. I'll need them. Oh, look! There's the bag with the masks. I'm glad I saw them. Oh good! There are those extension cords." and I hurried out to the car so I could get to the FLC and get things set up for class.

Did you notice in that little paragraph above me saying, "Ah! There's my camera. I'll get some great pictures tonight of our finished projects."?

So the pictures in this post are crosses I have made. I'll have my students send me pictures of their pieces. But we had a few that couldn't make it last Monday, so when we get together to finish their work I'll get pictures.... I hope.

That's My Flag

That's My Flag is the second song in our mini patriotic musical.

We're singing it THIS Sunday, July 6, during our 9:00 service.

So I KNOW you'll want to be in rehearsal tonight!

The music is EASY, so even if you missed last week you can still sing with us.

I'm excited to be able to have the entire choir sing together on a Sunday morning (instead of splitting into two services).

So, I'll be looking for you tonight at 6:30 at the FLC.

A Hint of Things to Come

Look at this! Your Worship Pastor and Children's Pastor are famous!
http://www.tnbaptist.org/CalendarEvent.asp?eventid=1104&cat=music&subcat=events04