We hope you will enjoy . . .
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A Peek through the Window
for December
2009 - 41st Edition |
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We appreciate your friendship and hope you also have been aware of the Lord’s care this year. You are in our prayers because we know you have had challenges this year, too. We want to hear from you.
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If you have time for only a glance, here is what we are doing now.
Howard - in Plano; independent broker for electricity in the Texas deregulated marketplace, doing legal research
Sharron - in Plano; Life
Chain state director; Golden Corridor Republican Women (GCRW) advisory
board,
ways and means / directory chairman
Herb, Jenny, Abigail (15), Ben (13 ½), Celeste (10), Daniel (7 ½) and Ezekiel (3 ½) - in Sterling, Kansas; Director of Career Services at Sterling College; home school mom getting ready for Baby Boy "F" in February; five energetic students
Shari, Eric, Mitch (3 ½) and Mandi(26 mos.), twins Michael and Melissa (6 ½ mos.) Earhart - in Eure, North Carolina; stay-at-home mom; pastor of Upper Room Assembly of God Church in Gatesville; four active toddlers
Shirlene, Jeff, Lacie (8), Andy (5) and Jacob (2 ½) Kazmaier - in Olathe, Kansas; full-time mom; self-employed architect; three enthusastic youngsters
Heather - in Dubai; fifth grade teacher at American Academy for Girls
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Some GRAND kids!
If you can linger longer, here are a few of the year’s events. [ click on picture to view larger image. ]
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Howard helping commercial and residential accounts to save money on their electricity with several electric providers: Cirro Energy, Direct Energy, Glacial Energy; experimenting with currency trading, doing extensive and challenging legal research on-line and in web conferences with countless others across the U.S.; following friends' activities on Facebook, dealing with challenges of Type 2 diabetes; driving with Sharron to Olathe, Kansas for Christmas 2008 at the Kazmaiers and to Oklahoma City for this year's Thanksgiving with Herb's family at the home of Jenny's mom, updating http://LifeChain.Net and helping publish another GCRW yearbook with information Sharron collected |
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Sharron making hundreds of calls as GCRW directory / ways and means chairman, again topping previous years' collections from sponsors, volunteering in several friends’ campaigns for elected office, celebrating hundreds of books read by children and pre-teens as librarian at Richardson Church of the Nazarene; visiting with 143 Texas Life Chain coordinators as Texas Life Chain director and with many of the coordinators in more than 1470 cities across the U.S. and Canada as coordinator of Life Chain.Net, sending e-mails during late nights to friends, churches and national organizations about this annual peaceful pro-life, prayer event on the first Sunday of October, refereeing when fearless Kitty threatens Lucky into submission in the kitchen
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Herb advising students at Sterling College (SC) in Sterling, Kansas where he is Director of Career Services, heavily involved in the inauguration of Sterling's new president, singing in the church choir at Hutchinson First Church of the Nazarene, organizing weekly Farmers' Markets for Main Street Sterling as a board member; Jenny home schooling four growing kids and reading to the fifth, maintaining a thriving garden and baking whole wheat bread for market, teaching Celeste's Caravan class, directing children's missions; Abi (15) in ninth grade, having fun in the homeschool basketball league, throwing 1200 shots weekly during the summer, loving on babies in the church nursery; Ben (13 ½) in eighth grade, playing soccer and basketball, helping Dad with Farmer's Market, cooking daily and constructing amaqing Lego creations; Celeste (10) in fifth grade, serving as captain of her Bible Quiz team, singing in the children's choir, enjoying reading and playing the piano, caring for a new kitten Kiwi; Daniel (7 ½) in second grade, reveling in his role as a summer town-league baseball player, doing well at quizzing, delighting in having Ezekiel as his sidekick; Ezekiel (3 ½) keeping the whole family happy with his outgoing personality, enjoying playing games with his siblings and with friends at church; all the kids riding into Hutchinson with Jenny almost every day for basketball, homeschool and church activities; pleased to live close to family to be a part of birthdays in Olathe and holidays in Oklahoma City and Dallas; thanking the Lord and looking forward to a new Baby Boy in February |
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Shari packing to fly with her family of four to Olathe last Christmas and announcing they will stay home this year with new twins complicating travel plans; enjoying help from Sharron, Cousin Beth, wonderful neighbors and friends with all four tots three and under for several weeks after the twins' birth; Eric continuing sermon preparation, flying to Dallas to tape an interview for a Christian TV program that aired on many stations worldwide [watch his story at http://tinyurl.com/2hxpre]; adding a guest room above the garage, rejoicing when their new Upper Room Assembly of God church building was dedicated, looking forward to more sleep as the twins allow; Mitch (3 ½) entertaining his siblings and parents with antics and puppet shows, naming his stuffed animals, writing his own name, building with blocks; Mandi (26 mos.) moving to the bottom bunk in Mitch's room, bouncing on mom and dad's bed, quietly playing with her dolls and writing checks with her mother's checkbook(!); Michael (6 ½ mos.) maneuvering to a sitting position, smiling and giggling easily; Melissa (6 ½ mos.) "army" crawling, intently studying people's faces, sleeping through her twin's "singing" right beside her |
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Shirlene helping with Jacob’s Honeybees on Wednesday nights at Olathe College Church of the Nazarene; enjoying ladies Bible study and leadership at Knowing MOMS; reconnecting with friends at her 15th college reunion at Southern Nazarene University; Jeff keeping busy with multiple projects in his own architectural firm, glad for less travel this year; taking lots of pictures of his family at Nazarene General Assembly in Florida and eight states enroute; both of them teaching Lacie’s Sunday School class and volunteering regularly in Andy and Jacob’s classrooms; Lacie (8) in second grade at Christ Lutheran School, having fun in choir at church, Upward soccer and basketball, qualifying for a gold trophy at Nazarene World Quiz at General Assembly; Andy (5) excitedly discovering words to read; in choir and Bible Study at church; glad to go out to lunch with his dad; Jacob (2 ½) fascinated by anything that has wheels, challenging any boy (of any size) to a wrestling match; singing "Jesus Loves Me" loudly wherever he has the urge |
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Heather collecting more furniture for her apartment in Dubai; missing holidays in the USA while teaching fifth-grade English and social studies at an American girls' school; spending her month of August at home celebrating her birthday at The Magic Time Machine in Addison, buying more books and supplies for her classroom, traveling to pass out gifts and be with siblings and friends in North Carolina, Kansas, Washington, D.C. and New York CIty then being glad for the solitude of her own apartment again; keeping up with friends on Facebook; planning to spend Christmas with friends in India |
All of us missing Shari's family and Heather as we plan to be together in Plano for Christmas this year
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Our e-mail addresses are: Howard - HA @ nm-tools.com |
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Our year in PDF format for printing may be found on http://sharpwebpage.com/
"Now to him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in
us, to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus
throughout all ages, world
without end. Amen.”
Ephesians 3:20-21
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