"It's been a long week, I've got a slow leak in my left front tire"

Title: Runaway
Artist: Love and Theft
Album: World Wide Open

Funny thing about the song reference tonight, it that it's all true.  From my rotor needing to be replaced, to Heather's tire falling off and rolling away... and the screw that is holding the air in my tire.  This has been one long week.  Monday night Isaiah Renard came over and helped me replace my passenger side rotor on the Explorer.  I changed the brakes on Heather's car after that and got into too much of a hurry.  When I put the tire back on I neglected to tighten the lug nuts enough.  Tuesday morning when she was taking Logan to VBS the lugs completely worked loose.  Her tire came off of the car and rolled away.  Needless to say, I was freaked out when she called and told me what had happened.  I left work (which I had driven my own vehicle to that morning) drove over, jacked up the car with two jacks, stole lug nuts from the other three tires and got her back home safely.  God was watching over her and the kids.  It was raining and nasty, and this all could have ended very badly.  I am beyond thankful that it did not. 

Wednesday evening, I met up with Isaiah and Brian to help move a $13K Yamaha baby grand piano.  I have moved pianos before.  I used to work for a piano store (even as a salesman, I had the honor of helping move many pianos).  When we would move them for the store we had a large box truck with a lift gate.  We didn't on Wednesday!  We had a Ford Excursion and a motorcycle trailer.    Three guys (not including the owner of said instrument) moving this thing was probably too few.  But we got it there, set it up, and had a great time of community.

Thursday we went to Logan's VBS closing and Wal-Mart.  Tonight was supposed to be laid back, but instead a co-worker asked me to cover for him so that he can take care of some out-of-town business with his foster son.  I had to go on one call (so far).  That is the concise version of the week.  Throw in some pawn shop runs for cash to get us by, extraneous heat the past few days and a little family drama for good measure and you get what I am talking about. 

As I typed up the last paragraph I realized that these names probably meant little to anyone who reads this, so here's the cast of characters from tonights blog...

Heather is my wife.  She blogs too (two).  We have been together for over a decade so there is a lot of history there and ot can't be summed up in just a few lines so stay tuned for more on that.

Logan is my son.  He's awesome!  A bit of a handful most of the time, but he means well.  He gets excited about everything and I do mean everything.  He loves K-Love, XBox 360, and Power rangers.  He is like his father, but on a 24 year delay (anyone get that reference?  It's a bit of a stretch, but very true). Then there is Maggie (who I didn't mention, but will tell you about anyway).  She is daddy's little princess.  She waits on the porch for me after work most days to wave and say "Hi dad!" as I pull into the driveway and then waits for the obligatory "Hi babe!" response.  We have a bun in the oven who has not been named yet, much to the chagrin of my loving wife.

Isaiah and Brian are part of the leadership team for Hope Chapel.
Hope Chapel is a church plant in Verona that my family is a part of and where I preached for the first time back in March (see first blog).

On a different note, I have been in writing mode recently!  I have penned two new songs in the past week or so.  Nothing has been recorded yet, but for anyone interested they will be posted on my soundcloud page when they are done.  That page can be found here. If you do, be warned that the band was recorded on a live radio show, which is to say that it is not a studio recording by any means. 

Until next time...