Time is the longest distance between two places.

It's been a while since I posted. The first event that comes to mind, in the past month or so, is that my Peter had his fourth birthday. It was wonderful and yet low-key. He wanted a gameboy and to go to Carl's Jr. (play place) with his best friend, Owen. He was a very happy boy to get both (thanks to Ebay.) Shortly after that, he started preschool and is loving it.

Parker spent his summer doing lots of fun things, but he was also trying to grow the world's largest cabbage in order to get a $1,000 scholarship. I don't know all the details, but we did manage to grow one huge cabbage, at 26 lbs. Nobody knew what to do with it though. It's not like Kimchee, borscht, or even cole slaw are popular in my house. How about yours?

I recently participated in the St. Luke's Women's Fitness Celebration. I'd have to go count T-shirts to be sure, but I think this is my fifth year doing that 5K walk. It is USUALLY tons of fun. This year, I can only say it was fun. I have lived too long out of Washington to appreciate standing in the rain for 1 1/2 hours before the walk and then walking for another hour in the rain. Then quickly grabbing breakfast, again, in the rain, and driving all the way home soaking wet. I am thinking of having rain drops added to this years T-shirt. I don't have any pictures though. What camera would work in that weather? I also am taking a course by Dave Ramsey called Financial Peace University. It a course designed to help get out of debt, save for retirement, build wealth, etc. And it's FUN! It probably doesn't sound fun to some of you, and that means that you are probably what Dave Ramsey calls a "free-spirit," but he is so funny and has been both poor and rich, so I think it's a good thing.

Randal is still working for Zilog. It truly is a miracle and a long story, but we are grateful non-the-less. He has also recently took the opportunity to get some more Scout leader training at Woodbadge. He was gone Thur, Fri and Sat a couple of weeks ago and gets to do it again this weekend. So, that's a great place to end this entry and start another, because I won't be sleeping well for the next three days and blogging is a great activity at 3 am. I highly recommend it.