michigan, peoria and sufjan

I have made one of my husband’s lifetime dreams come true – and I can not even believe I am saying this but I am excited about it as well. I was able to buy tickets to a University of Michigan home football game at the Big House. Not only that, something that is almost as difficult, if not more so, is that I secured a hotel room in Ann Arbor for the night before! The husband has dreamed of going to the Big House and I have to admit, I am excited too…he looked like a little boy on Christmas morning talking about it…being there in person should be even more fun to watch!

I have been sick for almost two weeks and have found that I am completely drained, I feel like I don’t have much left to offer anyone right now. I want to feel better and thought that maybe I was pregnant – which I am not. That too leads me to feel discouraged and frustrated too and mad because I have no reason to be sick. I just feel kind of zapped – there are so many things going on in our lives right now and so many things that have no quick or easy resolutions. I feel bad because I feel like I don’t have anything left to give at home and that’s not fair, my husband assures me he doesn’t feel shorted, but I still feel bad. I just have to lie down and rest in the arms of Abba and know that I can not control anything and that He will sustain. That is always so much easier to say than do! And, to help my mom stop worrying about me, I need to also rest in his care and not worry so much – which is hard to do with the ones you love so much.

We head into a busy weekend, full of church activity. If we are meant to move on from this place I am beginning to feel less and less sad about it. But again, not within my control! We are having a “Summer Spectacular” celebration (Spectacular, Spectacular from Moulin Rouge is all I can think when I hear that) this weekend in conjunction with another church. We are having helicopter rides, food, games, worship service and a concert. The other church was responsible for advertising and I haven’t seen anything about this event anywhere so I am getting concerned. In addition, the weather is supposed to be “oppressively hot” per the weather-woman. I am trying to remain optimistic but the realist in me says that no one is going to come. I pray that I am wrong and that our small town is flooded with folks. We are going to be selling food to raise money for the Honduras trip and I would love to see us be able to raise a nice sum. We shall see.

Getting excited about small things is always good. We did find this week that we went to the store on Wednesday there was a new Buffalo Wild Wings in a strip mall where there had been no restaurant before. How excellent. We were in Peoria and the husband decided that he was meant to sing Sufjan’s “Prairie Fire That Wanders About” whilst driving around.

Peoria! Destroyia!
Infinity! Divinity!
For Lydia! Octavia!
And Jack-of-Trades!
The Cubs! Hooray!

The Opera House
Where Emma sang!
America! Oh will it play?

And Santa Clause!
The Great Parade!
Peoria!
You have it made!

Into the crossfire
faithfully run
Middle America,
one on one

Peoria!
We saddle the fun times