Family

I would like to take a moment simply to voice the fact that I miss my family. Whether we're talking blood family, family by marriage or chosen extended family, I miss all of you. When my immediate family has slowly moved away from me, I've had to adopt other family members. God has blessed me with some great ones, but even they have been far away lately. Sure I've had phone conversations and I've traded emails with some of them. I would love to be able to just drop in for a visit or stop by to say Hi (and hope they offer to feed me dinner). Sadly, some of my family has not been seen for months. Some of my family I see across the way at church so we at least know we're alive. Again, some are just voices on the other side of the telephone - thank goodness for cell phones and plans with unlimited minutes! I've had brief encounters with some girls that were adopted into my family when they played ball for me. They are all doing good things and making me very proud. I've had great phone conversations with some of my favorite younger family members (you know who you are). There have been days that I've missed some of my family members so much it hurts. I have this great bulletin board at school that has pictures of my family on it. Most days it makes me smile but lately it makes me a little sad because I miss the people up there. So if you are reading this and are a family member of mine, please drop me an email or give me a call because I miss YOU!

PS - We won our volleyball match tonight and are sitting in 1st place in the conference all by ourselves. We beat this team (who was undefeated in conference) 25-3 (yes that is a three!) and 25-12. I told the girls after the first game that we needed to kick them while they were down! I know that's mean but we had a statement to make. We start the second half of our season on Thursday and will hopefully keep our undefeated conference record alive!