The Comforting Presence

So we're standing in the kitchen tonight (10/29/08) with a flurry of activity. Everyone is coming and going and many, many people calling "mom, mom, mom." Mary says, in the presence of all, "I'm going to go crazy." Evy jumps in and says, "but Mom, you're the comforting presence!" Where in the world did she come up with that one?

Mary's Got Warts; Doug Wants to Preach

Well, it has been a long time since the last post, but much has happened in the Glenn household.
Pearl (the new dog) is now 3/4 the size of Duke (our "old" dog); Ellen just finished her cross country season, Clint finished his second year of Homeschool Hornet Soccer where he scored his first goal, Meredith has started running with Ellen, and Evelyn is loving Blackburn and enjoying her 10th year of life (she'll turn 10 on February 14th, 2009).

The lovely and gracious Mrs. Glenn (pictured here with Meredith) pulled a wee tiny muscles in the back of her calf and hasn't been able to run since September. Her mental health is borderline but she is doing the best she can (I'm just kidding!!!). It does help her tremendously to run. Ellen has found out the same thing this year. Running is therapeutic -- the Blackburn homework load does not seem as heavy when you can run every other day. Anyhow, back to the lovely and gracious Mrs. Glenn...since she was not able to run, she decided to have a few raised warts removed from the back of one of her heals (very gross), they are healing nicely, but slowly. The lovely and gracious one also landed a job at Blackburn (the homeschool study center where the kids attend on Mondays and Wednesdays. She is study hall monitor and all around helper to the administrator, Mr. Landau.

Mr. Glenn (me) has also been busy. Last week (October 21-22), I was in Nashville for FNA (Furnaces North America) 2008. It was a very successful event. I credit this mostly to Mr. Tom Morrison the incoming CEO of the Metal Treating Institute (MTI). During the event, I was announced as president-elect of MTI -- a high honor -- and the first ever Associate Member to be president of MTI. Associate members are essentially suppliers to the commercial heat treating industry. Full members are commercial heat treaters; associate members sell equipment, components and supplies to the commercial heat treaters.

I've also decided to pursue my licensure to preach -- not the same as becoming a full-fledged preacher, but it will give me the authority to preach within the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) even though I have not attended seminary. We'll see how it goes. Both my Session and the Presbytery have to approve me. I might not measure up; we'll see.

At work, I also produce my first promotional video. You can see it if you click here.

Finally, Doug and Mary just found out that they will be going to Brazil in November for one week. Doug has a business partner in Brazil (see earlier post about Udo and Liduina Fiorini) and they have invited us down for a combination business/vacation trip. We are anxious about this trip.

I'll try to write more consistently/often.