June 13, 2005

• What a busy day in the Kendall household!!

  
  

  Repairs have begun once again. The old kitchen is getting a facelift and prayerfully all evidence of the water coming from above will soon be only a memory. Our hallway is playing double-duty as a makeshift kitchen for the next week to 10 days and we will be eating 'take-out' until our new kitchen is in working order. We've actually managed to set up a pretty tidy little work station there with the most important necessities of kitchen life .. the coffee pot and the microwave.

  
  

  After the kitchen will be the biggest job ... the study. We'll be packing books back up, moving bookshelves, taking down the computer station and trying to find a place in our flat to put it all. Our study is definitely our 'working' room so it will be greatly missed while under construction. We are definitely looking forward to having all the repairs finished. It will be so nice to finally unpack everything and get settled into our little home away from home.

  
  

  Pille and I spent about 3 hours today working diligently on my Estonian lessons. I think we made good progress but retaining all of it and understanding the umpteen grammar rules still makes me feel like I'm trudging endlessly through a thick field of mud. I don't know if it's my age or if I'm just not that smart. Could be all those kids I've had. You know they say that having children kills your brain cells ... I guess I should have stopped a long time ago since I didn't really have that many to spare.

  
  

  This evening brought some difficult news of our son, Dustin, who has been on special Army training in Mexico. It seems that he has a tooth that has abscessed and the infection has traveled severely into his jaw bone. He will be flown to Albuquerque, New Mexico for emergency surgery at 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. They will need to remove quite a bit of jaw bone and wire his mouth shut for 2 to 3 weeks to promote healing. He will then, we are told, have to have additional surgery when the wires are removed. Providing his surgery goes well and he recovers as hoped, he will return to Mexico about 3 days later, to join his unit there. He is feeling pretty lonely right now and his mom is feeling pretty helpless. Please pray for him ... for his successful surgery and quick recovery. And ... please pray that God will send comfort and peace to him while he's feeling alone.

  
  

  We also have two grandbabies who are ill. Our grandson, Ty, who is seven months old has contracted German Measles and is feeling horrible. Our granddaughter, Austyn, who is 14 months old has an infected lymph gland at the base of her head that is making her very ill. Please keep these precious little ones in your prayers as well.

  
  

  We are all feeling very far away from each other right now. This is indeed a time when the surrendering of those things most important to us, is tested. We would appreciate your continued thoughts and prayers for our entire family.

  
  

  God Bless!  pj

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