Catching up

This post is going to be one of those great, random, short “what I’ve been up to instead of blogging” posts

Church: We seem to be settling into church. I setup a website for a little girl who we’re doing a fundraiser for — and you can help! I’m still finishing up a few things on the site, but I should have online donations available soon. We’re doing a fundraiser BBQ chicken dinner if you’re in the area. Check out the details at KaitlynAcosta.com and download a flyer — help us spread the word! So along with that site, I’ve also been trying to work on the church site — the pastor wants to setup his sermons in a podcast. I’m having to look up information about this again as I *used* to know about all that but have seem to forgotten. If any of you do this for your church, give me a shout. I’ll blog about it here too as I think others might benefit from the information.

She Seeks: I began setting up this site right before She Speaks, and I continue to work on it. We would love for you to help us promote the site to 20-something ladies. It’s a division of Proverbs 31 Ministries and really seems to be filling a void. Today’s post is on domestic abuse. I am more likely to lash out physically than Duck beating me — I think that’s a by-product of growing up with older brothers who would wrestle me. Still, I know many women who struggle with that. Pass it along even if it doesn’t apply to you!

She Reads: This is another division of Proverbs 31 Ministries. I helped setup this site. I wish I were more into reading as I think it would greatly help my writing, but I just can’t seem to make the time to read for pleasure. I’ve always gotta be learning something There’s some great posts here about whether or not Christians should read stuff like the Harry Potter books. Doodle loves the movies but she’s not much of a reader either — so we haven’t read the books. There’s some great discussions going on in the comments though so check it out. They are going to have author interviews and you’ll be able to converse with the author in the comments. A neat idea! Mary E. DeMuth has posted today also sharing about domestic abuse and her latest book Daisy Chain.

Softball: The Sunday league ended yesterday. Kind of a bitter-sweet ending. We went undefeated this season (6-0) and won the championship game by 3 runs. The first game of the championship was quite a bit of drama as the other team was really trying to stretch the rules … ie. cheat. Nerve wracking is what it was. But we pulled it off! Ball Hogs rock! Duck’s still got some men’s games left and we have our co-ed team. Our co-ed team was undefeated as well until last Wednesday … but I’m supposed to be letting that go I know we win and lose as a team, but all I concentrate on are my mistakes. I know. I’m hard on myself.

Vacation: Doodle is out on intersession already and we’re planning on taking her and a friend of hers to the Great Wolf Lodge in VA. I’ve heard great things about the place and it better be as awesome as they say, because it’s ex-pen-sive! Doodle’s already thanked us a million times for bringing her friend though so I think they’ll have a ball! Pray for Duck and I though as we’ll have 2x the talking to take in.

New member of the family: Congratulations to my niece who gave birth to a healthy bouncing baby boy. Everyone is doing well. That makes me a great-aunt. Wow. I must be getting old

I think that’s all for now. It may be another week before I catch back up with ya’ll. Just wanted you to know I’m still alive. But with working on 5 or 6 different sites this past week, well, mine’s fallen to the very end of the list as usual

Remember you don’t have to be a light to the whole world, just the ones God places on your path (to quote My Genius Better Half).