I'm back

Finally The Chalfants have come back to Farmland.

First off I want to say a big THANK YOU for those who came to the funeral home, those who prayed for us, those who stopped us and gave words of encourgement, and those who just thought of us for a second. It has been an emotional rollercoaster for the last week, some days better than others and some moments better than others. It is hard for me to see my wife sad and upset and not having all the answers or right words to say. I was pretty good at the funeral down south until the part at the end of the service when the dismiss people row by row and they come up to the casket and then turn around to the family and say something. It wasn't that hard for me until they started with the family section, then when I went up there and the first person I saw was her brother then it got real hard.

Funerals down south are totally different then up here even the burials, we were allowed and actually encouraged to hang around as they put the casket in the box and lowered it in the ground and covered it up and then put all the flowers on the grave, kind of one final moment.

Tennessee is a very pretty state with all the mountains and valleys and such but I still don't like the roads with the curves up and down the mountain and how a 2 mile drive takes 15 minutes with all the curves and such but the people down there are just awesome. So friendly and courteous and polite no matter where you go. More on the events of the trip later.

The trip home was one of those that seemed like it would never end, and at the time I had gotten pretty mad and ticked off traveling the interstate leading the way with my 15 year old nephew behind and his dad and Tammy's dad behind them. Had to keep the speed in check so it took a little longer than a stop at a Bass Pro Shop store and the trying to find the store delay with wrong exits and at that time I was the one following the other 2 cars but at the end of the day we heard that there was a bad wreck on 65 with big delays both ways that we missed because of all of the delays and such, God works is mysterious ways that at the time I had no idea but now I look back and understand. Got home at 11:30 last night and got to sleep in my own bed. What a feeling.

Stepping away for a few days.

I will be stepping away from the blogging world for a few days, probably be back Tuesday. Tammys mother passed away this morning so we will be with the rest of the family here in Muncie for a few days then down to Tenn. for the burial this weekend I would imagine. So if you could keep the family in your prayers we would appriciate it.

1st day of school

Today is the day that when I was younger I always dreaded more than any other, the 1st day of school. It meant summer was over, my life was over, freedom as we knew it was over it couldn't get any worse than that day. The 2nd day of school however was allright and it wasn't as bad. This year is Taylors first out at the big school, she is now the little fish in the bigger pond. I don't know if your children are like mine but they neither one were looking forward to today, tomorrow it will be different though. And what is up with starting school on a Wednesday? We always started on the Monday before Labor Day and not in the middle of the week, at least they are going a full day and not a half day to start the year off, that never made sense to me.

It's funny how....

I think it's funny how people are saying that we need rain, we haven't had rain for a while, when's it gonna rain. And now that it has rained the better part of the last week now they are saying.....you guessed it- When's it gonna stop raining, we've had enough rain for awhile, etc....
Indiana weather, you gotta love it. I have a feeling that we will be seeing alot more rain next week once Hurricane Dean hits land.

The new computer is great but I can't seem to get the kids off of it long enough to enjoy it myself. Oh well school starts tomorrow so there is always after they go to bed.

Finally got it.

Well we finally broke down and got a new computer on Saturday. Went to Best Buy, one of my top 5 favorite TOY stores, and picked it up. Can't keep the kids off of it yet they are getting addicted to the games that came with it. Called Verizon and have some high speed internet on the way should be here sometime this week. Yes the Chalfants are stepping into the technically advaced and leaving the dial up behind, far behind.

Yesterday James did a fantastic job leading, I know he was nervous but I think, no I know he let God take over and he did a great job. I don't even know if I was on yesterday or not as I could hear myself in the moniter at all until church was over and we went back into Blessed Be Your Name so I appologize if I sounded bad cause I couldn't hear anything. I think that the songs went over great and you people out there were loud once again.

Friday got to play dj again at JOY FM during Solid Rock Friday Night and it all came back and boy was it fun. Took a few cd's over and played a few tunes off of them go over next week again on Friday and learn how to run the board during their high school football coverage than after the game play some tunes. Should be fun check it out if you can and thanks to those who listened this week and for the words of encourgement, they are appriciated.

Fun at practice

Last night was worship team practice and it was a lot of fun this week. It was a long practice but man was it fun. Got the songs down and are ready to cut loose on Sunday. James will be taking the helm this week and I must say he did a good job last night and I am sure that he will do the same on Sunday. The only bad thing about last night was towards the end of practice we noticed a few fellows coming in to fix some lights and one of them kept looking up to the lights and the glare was just awful, I need some sunglasses, so Clyde get a hat please(ha,ha,ha). Couldn't pass that up. Ready to go to JOY FM tonight and have some fun as well, don't forget from 8 pm to 11 pm at 88.9 on your FM dial check it out.

Looking for some sleep, anyone have any?

I would love to go back to bed right now but unfortunately I can't. Didn't go to sleep last night til around midnight than woke up at 1:30, Tammy was up and she said there was tornado warnings and all kinds of storms around as evident by the constant flashes of lightning to the north. Found out the storms were heading right for us with big winds and the like so I went out and brought the trash can back in so it wouldn't be blown all over and stood outside for awhile and soaked it all in for awhile. We love storms and watching them but sometimes at 2 in the morning when you haven't gotten much sleep and have to get up in 3 hours its not as cool, still cool but not as cool. Enjoyed the storm as it passed and went back to bed about 2:30 only to get woken up by the thunder that was right outside the window it seemed, than finally went back to sleep only to wake up at 6 am with the alarm clock flashing. I am supposed to be at work at 6 so needless to say I was a little late this morning as probably a few others will be as well.

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