Celebration
Adam turned 21 today. As we did for Paul's 21st birthday, Jonathan and I treated Adam and a friend to the Sunday brunch at the Signature Room of the John Hancock Building, Chicago's third highest skyscraper. The restaurant gave Adam the beautiful dessert tray pictured above, and the image below shows you some of the views from the 95th floor, which is just below the white windows at the top of the building:
Deja vu
Baby rabbits in our back yard!
A Boost
Our church hosts a nursery school for about 75 kids aged two to four. Every Tuesday and Wednesday, I preside over a chapel service for these children. The topics come from our building's numerous stained glass windows, which are pictures rather than text for these non-reading worshipers.
About six weeks ago, during the nursery school's regular class time, one of the children approached his teacher. With tears streaming down his face, she was concerned that he had skinned his knee or in some way hurt himself.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"I want to see Miss Mary!" he sobbed.
Looks like someone noticed my three-week absence! I am honored, and very glad that this child gets so much out of worship.
Mothers Day Greetings
Paul texted me from California, where he works with a group training other soldiers. FYI, all of the participants wear computerized vests that record whether they have been hit, injured, or killed by other shooters.
Paul
Hey mom happy mothers day sorry I cant call just got a short
break between firefights but hope you have a good day today
Mom
Thanks, Paul. I appreciate your message. We went to the lake off Mannheim Road today.
Very nice. Firefights? Does that mean shooting
or forest fires?
Paul
That’s good glad you had a good day. Shooting im in California again. So I just
got out of a firefight and me and like 4 other guys are still alive out of the
whole company and our 1SG is still alive so we are doing this with 4 people
haha
Mom
Sounds like you all are doing a GREAT JOB. Congrats!
Paul
Not really I wanna be dead its hot in this desert and theres
4 of us I wanna be done and the rest of the company got killed by helicopters
Mom
Still, your superiors will be impressed that you are doing
so well. Hang in there!
Paul
I will
