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Well it’s here.
The first baby class is tonight.
Not sure what goes on at these things, but if you know me you know that I’ve got a super short attention span and i’m pretty quick on the chuckle, so the combination of the two should be a perfect combination for this class about this kinda stuff. :)
I can’t believe the classes are here. That means we’re seriously on the home stretch.
In 10 weeks I’m gonna have a daughter.
Strange to think about I’m so close to meeting a little person that’s gonna re-define my life for the rest of my life…
crazy.
I’ll let ya know how this class goes… I’ll try not to embarrass my wife. :)
cheers,
j
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I feel our little girl move like crazy now. Not just kicks, but like these crazy pushes.. wow it’s weird… but AWESOME. :)
The room is getting so close to completion. It’s crazy to walk by there everyday and see all the stuff… this is really happening.
Gretch has washed the clothes we have and has ‘em in drawers and some hanging in the closet.
Carter is so funny, everytime we’re in the babies room he comes and tries to sit on our laps… I think he senses himself getting replaced haha… he’s such a good boy, it’s still just him and I holding the dude factor down at the Lee house.
We’ve moved on to having doctor’s appointments every 2 weeks… that means we’re real close…
We start the “classes” in a couple weeks, that should be interesting… haha…
I’m reading a book “the happiest baby on the block” - WOW.
I’m trying not to watch anything that makes me think of girls at age 13.
Gretch’s belly is really popping out there… she’s so cute. :)
It’s only like 11 weeks away.
That’s like 11 Mondays.
woah.
then I shall be a dad, and have a daughter.
can’t wait to meet that little one, she’s gonna blow my mind.
cheers,
j
I have to say last sunday was CRAZY. I got back from Haiti around midnight on saturday, where I was leading worship every morning with a ghetto sound system, no lights, no video, a not-so-in-tune guitar, and a bunch of haitians that don’t speak english, and was standing on the stage @oakbrookchurch a few hours later. CRAZY.
But it was soooo good! :)
the trip was awesome, and unlike the first time, that sent me into a little bit of a tailspin for a while, this second trip did the opposite. It just gave me hope… because the CHURCH is alive and well down in HAITI, and God is soooo much bigger than we make Him.
I’ll write more about Haiti later as I keep processing what God wanted to teach me down there… but for now here’s a little about the setlist sunday morning.
Prelude: #41 by The Dave Matthews Band
that’s right, one of the greatest songs ever written. I butchered it in comparison, but it sure was fun playing… I love that our church will play a song like that… how many church’s do you know that are playing a little DMB for the prelude? haha… I love that!
Worship Set:
Say, Say by Kristian Stanfil
I’m really digging this song… it’s seriously FUN, and it’s got spectacular lyrics “I Believe in Kingdom Come Son of God King of Love.” Yes please. Oh, and it has this awesome little measure of 2/4 in a 4/4 song, I don’t know that’s just fun.
Let God Arise by Chris Tomlin
What a great song to sing over my friends down in Haiti… “The Church will stand she will endure” AMEN.
How Great is Our God / Our God is Greater by Chris Tomlin
I mashed up these two songs a bit, but I loved singing them after seeing the scripture about who God is. I love how songs like these so capture our RESPONSE to GOD… meaning it captures just what I want to say back to God after I see/hear/read/experience something about HIM…
all for now… cheers,
j
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it’s actually our 3rd full day but I’ll post these as I get the internet. :)
Yesterday we had a lay-over in NY, an overnight… went smooth. JFK was pretty easy to navigate, the team is having a blast getting to know each other better. We got to the hotel in the evening and ordered some NY style pizza… fold it up and put it down, so good. :)
We woke up and had forever to chill at the airport… I remember being tired and so excited to get back to Haiti…
We got into Haiti right before lunch, the plane landed and we actually walked off the plane on a jetway, i think that’s what it’s called. Last year they just opened the door and we walked onto the tarmac, this year, there’s obviously been some money put into the airport. As we’re walking off the plane you can look accross the runway and see the little US base with a few military choppers and transport vehicles, kinda crazy.
Imigration and baggage claim was set up in a temporary barn… no A/C… seriously intense heat. the baggage claim was honestly one of the crazier things i’ve ever done, seemed like 1,000 hot and sweaty Haitians and a few white people all clamoring for bags as they SLOWLY roll out of the conveyor.
They only lost 4 of our 16 bags, which isn’t bad, but 3 of those bags had dinners in them… haha… guess we’ll stretch those pancakes out a little farther. :)
that night we got to the apartment, settled in, and went to bed pretty quick, it was gonna be an early morning at church.
There’s another guy, soon to be joined by another two guys also staying the apartment with us… he’s a Canadian, so you know he’s crazy. He’s heading up construction on an addition they are putting onto the Clinic… very cool.
This morning we woke up really early to head to church… that was awesome. It was a special sunday, so they had the WHOLE church, kids and all, packed into the cafeteria-turned-church. They grew so much that they had to move from the actual church building… what an AWESOME problem… God is doing such cool things through Aurthor (the missionary here) and the men and women that he has leading the church… just amazing.
They asked us to do a song, Kris, katie and myself pulled off glory to god forever… nothing like a little FEE in a church in Haiti.. haha.. I had to sing hunched over a podium playing a guitar with a strap I could barely fit around me… Haitians are thin :) but it was something I won’t soon forget.
after lunch we hung out for a bit, then we all took a walk through the village right next to double harvest (Koupon) with Curtis. Curtis has been in Haiti for months, teaching english and creating soccer teams… he is a rock star in that village… you’ll see when I post some video and pics soon.
It always blows my mind walking through Koupon. I hope it’s marked in me forever. And this being my second trip just makes it even crazier… because you KNOW people… you REMEMBER faces… crazy. Tinom showed us his house, he’s a kid that plays on Curtis’ team… must be like 18 or so… he lives in a stick and mud hut with a friend. they both sleep on a twin size bed. crazy.
we stopped at an assistant coach of Curtis’ house, Woodley, to watch the 2nd half of the world cup. Now that was really crazy… the world cup on a porch in Haiti. INSANE.
then tonight I drove aurthor’s truck and followed Curtis and the Koupon soccer team to a village about 20 minutes away. A few adventures all in one… driving was really something… and the soccer team was out of control excited.
Curtis has these guys so disciplined, they warm up together just like a team you’d see in the US… it was impressive to watch. They played beautiful soccer. Passing… teamwork… crazy talented guys.
Then what the real craziness is was when we drove back it was dark, and we drove down through Koupon with the team hanging off the trucks yelling… as we got into the village kids and adults started coming out of the woodwork yelling. It was out of control! Honestly one of the coolest experiences of my whole life.
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