...as it relates to the Wolfs (that's me and bill), is HERE.  Well, what are you waiting for, click on that link!

Today I spent most of my time baking bread from scratch!  I had the idea that bread was the hardest thing in the whole world to make so I never attempted it!  I was asked to bake some and I have been baking a lot lately because I LOVE it and haven't had time to in years, so I agreed to the challenge.  I chose a caraway and rye bread and it is delicious.  Bill and I ate a loaf tonight...they aren't huge, but still, that's a lot of bread.  I made 4 loaves and can't wait to try another recipe sometime soon. 

Tonight Jude had carrots, his first veggie.  He never stopped making "MMMM" noises the entire time and his face was basically covered.  I read that you should give your baby a spoon to hold in addition to the one you are using to feed him, but I learned when we started cereal that babies don't have great hand-eye coordination, and as a result we almost had a spoon lodged in his left eye.  He still tries grabbing it all the time so I let him hold it towards the end and chew on it....but that is how he got carrot all in his eyelashes.  Apparenly that's where he sticks things so no more spoons for him for a couple of weeks.  It was definitely a necessary bath time tonight.  He was in the big tub for the first time and like this much more than the baby tub because he could slap at the water.

I am losing count of how many "25 Random Things About Me" notes I have been tagged with on Facebook.  Still, I love reading them!  It's like all of my friends were tricked into blogging and it gives me extra ways to keep up with everybody!  I'm not a stalker, I just take what I can get since I don't get to talk to everybody very often.

I am thinking of getting a new blog site.  I have had this one for 3 years and I HATE to think of losing all of my posts. That's the only thing holding me back.  Any thoughts, advice, etc would be appreciated!

This morning at exactly 6:45, I was awoken by the sound of many alarms going off very loudly and Bill walking in our room and then going out really quickly with a panicked expression saying "all the power went off!".  So I am lying there trying to make a connection between alarms and power.  Jude was still asleep despite the alarms (but not for long).  It turns out that we need to change all of the batteries in our smoke detectors, which we didn't know because we had never been here when the power went off before and we hadn't thought of it.  We have 5 smoke alarms and it took Bill a while to turn them all off while I soothed Jude.  There was a casualty in the midst of the chaos...the mosaic table that I made a few years back went down during the removal of the battery in our room.  Then Bill tried calling KUB in the dark to report our power outage and it took a while to get through the automated questions with the correct responses.  But over 1000 people were experiencing the same thing and it only lasted about an hour and a half.

So I made the decision last week to resign from my position at JBC.  I have loved working there and will miss it, along with all of the people.  I just felt like it was time for a change.  I also wanted more time to spend with Jude.  I will be looking for something part time, with the long term goal of finding a job where I can help people who are in need or who are suffering.  I don't yet know what that will be but I know that God will lead me.  I am even open to the idea that it may not be a job, but an extra curricular project or volunteering.  There are so many needs and I want to help.  It has been one of my biggest struggles trying to do that and also work at Johnson where there are so many students I care for and could spend all of my time with.  I believe there has been a time for that, I have loved it,  and I let it go reluctantly, knowing in my heart that it is what I need to do right now.  I certainly will keep up with them! 

That's what's going on with me.  I am looking forward to just taking a breather for a few days because it has been so busy.  I have so much cleaning to catch up on at my house that I don't know where to start!  Is anybody coming in for homecoming?  Bill is leading worship and we are very excited about that!