Wedding plans? Joshua, news items

We should find out this week about Maggie’s and Aaron’s wedding. He is attempting to get the week of the 8th of August off with the wedding scheduled for the 11th: all that is dependant on getting the time off. IF he announces that he is free for those days there will be a flurry of activity at the Mortenson house as the plans are worked to execution. I imagine Cori is going nuts about now.


Joshua told Mama late last week that he has lost the lease at the mall in Hot Springs. We have no idea what is going to happen to his business with the loss of space. We do know that he will not have a place to live any longer since he was living at his business. I am deeply torn about how to pray for my son except that God’s will be done and that he would have the wisdom to fall into step with God in that will. What it will cost him I a am not sure, but God’s way is always the best way – regardless how things look to us.

Mama and Victoria said goodbye to the boys yesterday. Their mother is currently unemployed so she will be keeping her brood at home with her until something turns up. Mama told her she would be unavailable until the 16th of August due to the wedding being planned and the potential of signing on the farm the first weekend in August. (I will be calling to confirm the approximate dated today or tomorrow.) Though we are excited about both events we are scared about the financial hemorrhage it will cause.

Casey, the mother of the boys, promised to arrange visits with Mama and Victoria so they could get a booster dose of Mama Kim through the separation. The couple we invited over for Sunday lunch got to witness the goodbyes and the wife remarked that it is not that hard for her to say goodbye to her grandchildren. She just doesn’t know Mama. With rare exception, every child that comes into her care gets fully adopted into her loving world and every parting is an emotional trauma; the younger they are the more traumatic it is.

Saturday was a workday at the church. There were probably thirty people that showed up to do the hundreds of odd jobs the pastor and staff had thought up. I fixed the sagging ceiling tile in the sanctuary while another group of men replaced lights in the sanctuary. My work was only fourteen feet up. Theirs was two sets of scaffolding and an eight foot ladder above the floor. It was a little scary to watch – especially with the safety focus we have at work. Thankfully we finished the day without injury.

On Saturday evening I got a call from the liquidator concerning the log homes we have been looking at. He did not have the smaller model Mama and I were thinking about – in order to save a little money – but he has two of the models that are slightly larger. After some discussion Mama and I decided to go ahead and order the one we could get and agreed to a delivery date of August 25th. With the down payment for the farm and the log package purchase, we will run our savings account pretty low. Add to that Maggie and Aaron’s wedding and we will be pretty much done. At this point we are not sure where the equipment to work the farm will come from, but it will be ours to work when we can. Patience.

I was privileged with a lightening show all the way to work this morning. I can only hope there is rain in the clouds that were showing off. We are in desperate need of rain.