Ch-ch-ch-Changes at the corner of Chaos and Insanity Road!

Ch-ch-ch-changes!
Everyday is bringing something new into our lives here at the Keon household on the corner of Chaos Ave. and Insanity Road.

Oh, we are getting down to the wire. Working full time and trying to get things rearranged and ready for the arrival of the exchange students is both exhausting and exciting and maybe bordering on insanity as we rush to get everything ready this week!.

There are dental appointments and eye check ups for Scott and the girls before school starts, and medical check ups for me and all of the fun little tests that I still have to go through to make sure I am cancer free for another year. Chaos!

We also have been taking out time for some other things. It was milestone birthday celebrations this past week. The darling daughters were 16 and 18 so we took them out to see Mama Mia and to eat at a new Japanese Hibachi Grill in Tupelo. Mama Mia was more than entertaining but it was a bit disconcerting at seeing the Japanese cuisine stir fried by a non-Asian. That was change I didn’t want to see.

We noticed at a recently foray into an Oxford Chinese eatery that the cooks weren’t Chinese. They were Hispanic! I’m sorry but I really want my Chinese food prepared by real Chinese cooks and my Japanese food prepared by Japanese cooks. That also means that I want my Mexican food prepared by a Hispanic. I can make authentic tamales but you won’t see me trying to pass myself off as a Mexican chef! Changes!

I am keeping busy answering the queries from other homeschooling parents about the books I have up for sale on e-bay. That sure has proven to be a good tool. Now if I can just convince the new post mistress that I know exactly what I am talking about when I go in and ask for the media postage rate. I’ve got a lot of textbooks to pass on to the next homeschool family and I would love to mail them out at the best possible rate. I also need to make room for all of the books I want to read just for fun. Chaos!

I finally reached the end of my journey toward my Theology degree in May. My class had its ‘Last Supper’ Sunday evening. It was pot luck and I must say there was quite the diversity in our dishes that we brought to the table just as our class was quite diverse. Over the past 4 years that we have studied together, our class became like family. We shared each others’ ups and downs. One of our members was diagnosed with metastatic
brain cancer and has been going through treatments and surgeries for most of our time together and it has been a blessing to us to see his strong faith and will to live. He was with us for our Last Supper although he could not actually eat the meal. We will continue to pray for a miracle. Changes!

I’m still drinking my bottled water and still recycling those plastic bottles and I wish I could say I have a gas conserving vehicle sitting in the drive way, but alas, the Great White Whale is still part of the family. It will be moving Ariel to the W in just a few short days. It will also be picking up Ji Eun and Ping at the airport and bringing them to a new life in Bruce. I am thankful for Marshall and Bernadette Coleman creating a little chaos at their gas store. I don’t mind that Marshall is a Democrat and he doesn’t mind that I’m not. When you drive a vehicle with a slight drinking problem, it is not insanity to drive to Derma for the lowest gas price is a good change.

Thanks to the good folks at Brasher’s in Bruce, I now have a working dishwasher. Doing without a dishwasher was not a change I wanted to make. Thankfully they had just the right dishwasher for my tiny little budget. So it won’t be chaotic around here trying to get those dishes clean.

Yep. Ch-ch-ch-Changes are happening every day here in our house at the corner of Chaos Ave. and Insanity Road.