Beautiful day

Today is a beautiful day here in Charleston. The sun is out and it is 74 degrees heading to a bearable lower 80’s on the thermometer according to our local weather folks. Instead of being in my office I want to be outside walking around with the rest of the students and tourists eating lunch and catching some much needed sunshine. I spend so much time inside in my bat cave staring at computer screens that I must be white as a sheet. I feel like a CHUD most days. Do you remember the CHUD movie from years ago? CHUD stands for cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller. That describes me very closely, everything except for the cannibalistic part. I love to eat and I get hungry on a regular basis however I have yet to have seen another humanoid I wanted to munch on. For my close friends and family I guess that is a much wanted revelation. LOL
I guess LOL is not an appropriate word with regards to grammar or writing but since this is going to be posted to my blogs I am not worried too much about being PERFECT with regards to my grammar or spelling. Ok, I confess, I am like most folks. When I write something I want to portray a semblance of intelligence and writing ability. I cheat and use Microsoft Word and the built in spell check. Ok, there it is , confession time from a free lance wannabe writer. LOL… I know, I know, you do the same thing.

This has been the week of “end of life” events for our church family. I say church family because I consider the folks at my church as my extended family. I spend a lot of time with them during the month and so I have gotten attached to them. One of the ladies at our church lost her husband. Louis was 77 years old and they were both married for several years and lived together at a nursing home. We had the memorial service at our church on Easter Sunday afternoon. There were not a lot of people at the memorial service but the people that were there had some neat and interesting things to say about Louis and his surviving wife.

My pastors mother in law passed away at 3 pm yesterday. Nonnie Grace Rushing was in her early 80’s and her health has been failing as of late. The fact that she has passed certainly was of no surprise but the timing certainly was. I wish that I could have spent more time with her before she left us. The only time I really saw Nonnie was at church. Nonnie was always in Sunday school when her health allowed it. Nonnie would sit in one of the front pews and listen to her son in law preach every Sunday. I will certainly miss seeing her there and I know she will be missed by many.

Our resident princess will be turning “sweet 16” in May and as of yesterday she passed her learners permit exam and got her official South Carolina Learners Permit ID. Kristina was so excited about this new turn of events in her life. If you live anywhere near Goose Creek SC you might want to be very very careful if you see a grey 93 Ford Taurus station wagon heading in your general direction. It will be some time before my princess gets behind the wheel of the 2006 Durango. LOL… I am glad that my insurance premium will not go up until she is an actual licensed driver in SC. In the next year or two I will need to get my wife a newer vehicle to drive around to work and do errands and then the 93 Ford can go to my newest and less experienced driver. My 12 year old son who wants to be a rock star has decided he wants a motorcycle to fly around on. Can you say MOPED?? LOL. Katy told him that he would have a motorcycle AFTER he turns 18 or she dies, whichever happens first. What is wrong with him, telling his MOTHER that he wants a motorcycle? LOL…

We recently spent the weekend up in Myrtle Beach where we attended the annual Renaissance Weekend. This event is sponsored by Camp Happy Days and we have been attending it since our Jessica died on August 5th 2001. Camp Happy Days provides this weekend for parents who have lost children to cancer or other diseases. This is a time for us to honor our children for who they were in our lives and to cherish our memories of them. We had a very small group of people this year which was unusual but it gave all of us some extra time to talk about our beloved children. We are so thankful to Camp Happy Days for the ability to come together and be supported by them and to support one another.
I hear my tummy growling so I am going to go for a walk in Marion Square and get something to munch on. Have a great weekend and let the folks that you have close to you that you love that you appreciate them.

James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
james.moffitt@comcast.net