Ringworm

Derek has ringworm! Don't know when or where he got it, but bless his heart he's got it! On Monday we were traveling to Arlington to go to Six Flags with the youth group. Derek was laying in my lap and I was playing with his hair. I noticed a large bald spot on his head and was inwardly freaking out! My first thought was alopecia (sp). One of our chaperones is a nurse, so I quickly consulted her and that was her first thought, too. Well, we took him to the doctor on Wednesday, which was Derek's 7th birthday, and he said it was ringworm. None of us have ever had this before. The doctor asked if he had been around animals and he hasn't. Mom and Dad took the grandkids to the lake last week and that's the only "out of the ordinary" thing he's done. We get the oral meds and find out he is allergic to them. His face was swollen, had a low grade fever, rash on his legs, chest, and back! So, we are on to another medication and this seems to be working fine. He has to take it for 6 weeks. I guess fungus is hard to get rid of! Tonight during his prayer at dinner he prayed for his hair to grow back fast. Sweet baby! The only good thing is there is a long layer of hair that covers the two bald patches. So when you see him you can't even tell.

So funny!

Today we went to get Derek measured for his tux for Melanie Ponder's wedding. After we got back in the car, I told Derek he would be so hot in that tux. He procedes to say, "Do you mean hot cute or hot hot". I cracked up! Not that I don't think he will look super cute in the tux, but how funny that he thought I would use the word hot for him.

50 days!

So I went to Healthworks today to work out. When I punched my number in I told the lady it had been awhile since I had been there. She proceeded to tell me it had be 50 DAYS! I had no idea it had been over one and a half months. However, when I got on the scales upstairs I sure could tell! Well, back to the grindstone of working out, at least when we're in town.

2 weeks of camp, garage sale, and t-ball!! WHEW!

We are well into summer with the youth group. We've completed two successful weeks of Camp Kurios, we had a fundraiser garage sale for UPLIFT last week, and tball is over with the team party tonight. I counseled the girls in the 9th-11th grade. We had a great week. The theme was Proverbs and wisdom. I wish I had had some of the lessons they heard when I was 16 years old! We had a HUGE garage sale last weekend at church to raise $ for uplift (camp at Harding). We had a profit of over $3000. It was a lot of work, but well worth it. We leave for Harding this Saturday and will be back on Thursday, July 5. I promise, our house is more like the Holiday Inn Express during the summer than a actual home! I'm posting some pics of Derek and his tball team. He's a future Cardinal, I'm telling you! They moved the ages back this summer, so you had to be 7 by April 15 to play pitching machine. So we enjoyed our THIRD year of tball. Kent coached again and had so much fun with the 13 boys and 1 girl! You can see from the pictures that Austin takes after his organized dad. It drove him crazy that the boys threw their helmets all over the place!

Today has been a peaceful day. I planned on working out, but it's been kinda nice doing nothing. Maybe I'll go tomorrow!

Camp

Sorry it's been awhile since I posted something new. Last week was spent with over 100 Jr. week campers and staff. We will be leaving tomorrow for another week. This week is much more laid back because they are older. I'll post some pictures on here when we get home on Saturday. Oh the life of the youth ministers family.........got to love it!!!!!!!!!!!

New glasses!

I got new glasses yesterday! Yes, usually I wear contacts, but thanks to my wonderful 3 year old, I needed new glasses. Sometimes I wish I knew what was going on in his little mind. Like, "I wonder what these glasses would look like in 3 pieces instead of 1!" or a few months ago, "I wonder what would happen if I mixed hot chocolate mix with dawn soap on the kitchen floor!?!" I can tell you what happens, a sticky, chocolaty mess that really stinks for some reason!

So I go in to my eye doctor and tell him I need an eye exam and new glasses. He says puppies and preschoolers keep him in business. Well, thanks Austin! Dr. Parnell truly appreciates you and all your preschool friends!

Passion for Purity

Every 3 years at church we do a sexual purity campaign. In the past it has been called "True Love Waits". This year, due to the fact that our teens roll their eyes when they hear "true love waits", we changed the name. Kent and I decided on "Passion for Purity". We split the boys and girls up and then made smaller groups according to ages. The jr. high and sr. high girls just finished the "His Girl" study by Vicki Courtney. It is an 8 week long dvd/magabook experience. If you teach the teen girls at your church, I really recommend this study. It's not only about sexual purity, but purity throughout your entire life (modesty, friends, thoughts, etc). I'll put the author's link up so you can take a look if you want.