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So, today was our goodbye day. So sad! So HARD to say goodbye to so many good people. I took my spare camera (my good one is packed) with me today to get some picture of some of our friends. Below are some of the people who helped make my life and Danny's job so easy! 
Derek (husband to Angela on my blog roll, and a LU alumni I must add). Derek is a good guy! I think he has been on the SBC staff longer than anyone there, which is PREEEETY good...preeeety good!
Cheryl-Ann, the lady in charge of many of our church outreach ministries like Feed the Need, and Operation Christmas Child. My first memory of Cheryl-Ann was at my BIL's wedding a few months before we moved here. She was the wedding coordinator. My first impression of her was, "Wow, this girl doesn't mess around. We need to do what she says."
The Carter's (aka Mr. Noodle from Elmo's world--not really, but he looks like him to us!) minus two of their daughters. Nicole and Mr. Noodle work at SBC and Mrs. Carter is just the sweetest lady and always took care of me and my children in the church cafe. This family kind of reminds me of my parents and sisters. Mr. Noodle lived with 4 ladies in his house and stayed sane---my dad lived with 6 ladies and stayed sane...those are some GOOD men!
Aww, sweet baby Jane slept during all the sad goodbyes and all the tear! She was one smart baby!
The Rodriguez' minus Timmy and Alyssa. This is one incredible family! They watched our children from Friday evening until about 5pm on Saturday, so we could pack. Then again today after church until about 8pm. What a HUGE gift they gave us in doing this! They fed us too! Danny and I both had a few plates of food from Heather and Tim and Robyn, (Heathers mother). On the way home from their house Saturday evening Maddie said to me, "Momma, you can cook good, but Miss Robyn can REALLY cook!" Maddie is so sweet and correct! Thank you Rodriguez' and Robyn and you too Jamie (Heather's sister).
Dan and Michelle---goodness, these two are great. Long time SBC'ers. Dan would call my Danny several times during the week and just make sure he was doing well and encourage him. Michelle and I worked in Awana together and just had a simply wonderful friendship. 
Bobby our worship leader (awesome!!!) and Josh an intern. Harry Jack LOVED all the intern's at SBC and Bobby--I think Harry's first word was B-O-B-B-Y! Thanks guys for letting Harry drive you all nuts! I know it got annoying at times!
Lauryn and Mark! Lauryn is our pastor's secretary. She is the glue that holds it all together--or should I say listens to all the chaos/junk and then deals with it. She is one great lady. Mark is just the nicest man! One thing I love about Lauryn and Mark is the show their love for each other. They are empty nesters and Danny and I have said more than once, "We want to be like Mark and Lauryn when we get big."
My park friend Angela (wife to Derek above) with baby number 3 in her tummy. I am gonna miss this girl! We have been going to the park every Tuesday for a LONG time. For the rest of my life I will always think of Angela when I see a playground! Sniff Sniff! 
Sniff sniff again! This is the Scott family. They have 5 children too, all between the ages of 2 and 6 I think. When I'm having a bad day I think of Mandy and then I feel better. At least I have 2 older children to help me out, Mandy doesn't. Mandy is a GREAT mommy and I know every now and then, she has tougher days than me! I'm gonna miss seeing this sweet-sweet family! 
Lori and Tina work in the preschool. Long time SBC'er!!!! We were on our way to Lori's house the night we had to take Margaux to the hospital (her husband is a Dr and told us we need to go). It was a bitter sweet night for us. We were sad that Margaux was in the ER, and we also were sad that we couldn't go out on the boat and jet ski's!!! But we made up for it a few nights later. Thank you Lori and family for the FUN time and good food. And Lori---I didn't get to hug you goodbye! Aww man!
Tina, I am so happy you are helping staff the preschool. Every church needs a Tina! Lets just say she gets the job done.
Nicole, Becky, and Ginger--Oh me oh my! Truly good girls! They are on staff at SBC. They were bummed that I took their pictures in these great, "Ask me about camp" shirts, so thanks girlies for letting me. Each of these girls helped Danny out GREATLY with his job. Nicole is the money lady, Becky is the preschool lady and Ginger is the hospitality lady. All three of these girls are just perfect in their roll at SBC. I'm gonna miss Nicole's upbeat fun personality, Becky's sweet gentle smile and Ginger's servanthood.
So there you have it, just a few of the many people we will miss! Sniff-sniff! Keep your peepers (eyes) open guys! We may just pop in on you one weekend when you least expect it!
Okay, so I'm thinking to myself, hmm, how do I start this post?
I hate trying to figure out the best way to tell breaking news in "My Life in Southwest Florida."
You know, its like you need to make this big announcement while at the same time you hold your breath hoping it is received well .
So, I'm thinking I'll go the "world series route." Yikes, is this a good idea???? I mean Danny, a.k.a. My Love, loves baseball. Okay, here it goes...
(Said in a sports commentator's voice.)"Dan Logan, now that you've resigned from your job here in SWFL, what's the first thing you're gonna do?"
(Said in a crazed sports fan's...or wife's voice.) "WE'RE MOVING TO VIRGINIA!"Ahhh, it's out! Finally we can talk about it. Yes, we are moving! On Monday we are heading home, to good ole Virginny! Its a dream come true. We always knew we wanted to end up there, but it seemed so far away in reality.
I know some of you are like, "Wow, this happened quick." In our experience, resigning in a ministry is different from the rest of the working world. You resign, its kept a secret for a while, and then bam, you're gone.
You see, we understand how this works, but its hard for those who don't understand. It's like one week you're at church, and the next week you're telling the lady you worked with in the nursery for the past year, "today's my last day, we're moving tomorrow." (This is what I have to do Sunday. Ouch!)
Anyway, It's all good. A smooth transition is truly what is needed and things are going very well. It always works out the way it is supposed to.
So all you Florida peeps, we will be back to visit, as Danny's family is here, but you guys come see us too. We seriously have plenty of room for you and would love to show you "the burg!"
Oh, and what's Danny's new job??? All I can say is, "Is there a Dr. in the house???" No, not a M.D., but a Prrooooofessor (said in an intellectual accented voice). Danny has accepted a psychology teaching position at our alma mater Liberty University!
So folks, I'm gonna be M.I.A. for a week or two while we get moved in. In the mean time...any suggestions for a new blog title?
Margaux is doing MUCH better! The hole in her throat is healing up great, although there is still a thing or two dangling from the back of her throat. I don't know how she is okay with that, but oh well... I don't think she will need stitches, we will find out tomorrow.
On another note, today I had to get out of the house. I needed a few domestic items and had a hankering for Chick-Fil-A. So off to Target we went to get a few things and a couple $1.00 Icee's (on sale this week/ANY size!).
After about an hour of scanning the clearance shelves in Target, and using a total of $7.50 in coupons on clearance items, we went on over to CFA. I purposely waited to get there until about 1:00, to try and avoid the lunch crowd. It didn't work. The place was booming.
The play area was packed and there were 3 big boys, (older than Maddie) playing in there. They looked rough too, and were playing rough. I began to scan the restaurant for which mom they belonged to. I couldn't figure it out, so I began to make a plan in my head as to how to get those big boys out of there.
After we finished eating, me, the car seat with Jane in it, Harry Jack and Margaux began to mosey on over to the play area. I had 2 drinks in my hand (a purse and diaper bag too, which don't really matter in this story, but make me VERY noticeable in the busy close quarters restaurant).
This is my plan in action: I opened the door and looked in. Then with a disgusted looked on my face I looked back into the restaurant to the manager who was clearing tables and making sure everyone was happy and said loudly, "Um, sir? There are some very big boys playing in here." It worked--instantly the man followed me into the play area , AND by the way, the mother of those rough big boys appeared too. "Yay! Mission accomplished!"
Then my plan bit me! As I was getting settled on a seat in the play area, the manager turned to me and said in an equally loud voice (as he pointed to a sign on the wall), "Um, ma'am? I am sorry but there is no eating or drinking allowed in the play area."
Aww man! Busted! And embarrassed! So, I tried to act cool and said, "Oh, no worries, I'm sorry." Then I hauled myself (car seat, drinks and bags) back out of the play area and stood outside the door sipping on my cherry Coke, trying to "act cool."
Embarrassing! I know people were looking at me. I just wish I had my mom or one of my sisters with me to laugh at it with me and feel my embarrassment too!
This afternoon my sweet baby girl Margaux Jeanne got hurt...really bad.
About 3:00 this afternoon we were getting some things packed up to go spend the evening on the water with some friends. All of a sudden I heard this scream out in the living room followed by, "she's bleeding, oh no!"
I ran out to the see what was going on and found my baby girl crying and blood was pouring out of her mouth. At first I thought maybe she bit her lip or the inside of her cheek. But then I realized, as she was somewhat gurgling blood in her mouth, it was worse.
I had her open her mouth so I could look in, and then I shut my eyes and said a quick prayer. The back of her throat had a huge hole like gash in it. It was like ground beef. I mean... I don't mean to be gross, but there were things hanging down in the back of her throat. I don't know how she wasn't gaging!
With tears in their eyes, Maddie, Danny, and Harry Jack began to tell me their own version of what happened...basically Margaux put Maddie's VBS craft, a 1x8 inch bamboo Australian Didgeradoo, in her mouth, ran around the house with it and ran into a wall. Oooooouch!
We called our friends and told them we would be a bit late to the beach. Thankfully, one of them is a doctor and he told us that a trip to the ER was definitely needed. Danny took Margaux to the ER while I dealt with the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder's going on in each of my childrens rooms. They were all so afraid.
Things are better now. Needless to say, it has been a long, tearful afternoon. Margaux is on a liquid diet and an antibiotic to prevent infection. We are praying for the hole to heal itself by Wednesday...or she may need to get it sewn up...big time OUCH!
The above picture was taken when Margaux came home tonight. The ER gave her a few Blues Clues stickers and told her to eat Popsicles. We just finished watching Cinderella together and now she is asleep. I'll keep you posted on how her throat heals. Bless her little heart!
UPDATE below!
Have you fellow, blogger, Liberty University, friends heard of this book, Unlikely Disciple, or its writer, Kevin Roose (click on his name to go to his website)? Kevin went to LU undercover for one semester. Watch the Youtube video below to understand more.
Danny is reading the book and he says parts of it are very funny! Every once in a while he starts laughing out loud at some of the things this guy writes about in the book. Sometimes Danny reads me parts of it and I must say I am excited to read it when he is done. Very interesting! And funny!
Small's, Jday, my 4 sisters, and any other of you LU alumni out there, you need to read it. If anything it will bring back memories of college days.
Oh, and if you go to Kevin Roose's website, take the quiz. I am proud to say I passed and I'm still a YC for C!
Whoaaa Nelly! Hold the phone Jack! I got a response from the above reader himself, my manny Danny. After he read this post we had a lengthy conversation about the book and, in particular, "prayer." I tried to get him to "guest post" about the book but he declined. BUT, he says, (quote)
"Read the book!"
This blog writer is laughing! Good times, good times!
***Please note, there is some...how should I say it...controversial content in this book.
Okay, I know I have been slacking in the blog lately. I've been a bit busy--more to come on that subject soon.
Anyway, my sisters,
Dolly and
Donna,
Donna clicked and pasted each of my posts, from July 2007- New Years Eve 2008, into a word document and then somehow sent it to Staples, and bada-bing "that was easy" (Staples' motto), it was done.
A few months ago, a friend of mine, Nikki, posted about how to do a blog book on her blog. Nikki, when you get a moment can you type the link to that post in the comment section? Needless to say, I LOVE IT! I am looking forward to making 2009 a book too!
Thanks my sweets!
Derek (husband to Angela on my blog roll, and a LU alumni I must add). Derek is a good guy! I think he has been on the SBC staff longer than anyone there, which is PREEEETY good...preeeety good! 
Cheryl-Ann, the lady in charge of many of our church outreach ministries like Feed the Need, and Operation Christmas Child. My first memory of Cheryl-Ann was at my BIL's wedding a few months before we moved here. She was the wedding coordinator. My first impression of her was, "Wow, this girl doesn't mess around. We need to do what she says."
The Carter's (aka Mr. Noodle from Elmo's world--not really, but he looks like him to us!) minus two of their daughters. Nicole and Mr. Noodle work at SBC and Mrs. Carter is just the sweetest lady and always took care of me and my children in the church cafe. This family kind of reminds me of my parents and sisters. Mr. Noodle lived with 4 ladies in his house and stayed sane---my dad lived with 6 ladies and stayed sane...those are some GOOD men!
Aww, sweet baby Jane slept during all the sad goodbyes and all the tear! She was one smart baby!
The Rodriguez' minus Timmy and Alyssa. This is one incredible family! They watched our children from Friday evening until about 5pm on Saturday, so we could pack. Then again today after church until about 8pm. What a HUGE gift they gave us in doing this! They fed us too! Danny and I both had a few plates of food from Heather and Tim and Robyn, (Heathers mother). On the way home from their house Saturday evening Maddie said to me, "Momma, you can cook good, but Miss Robyn can REALLY cook!" Maddie is so sweet and correct! Thank you Rodriguez' and Robyn and you too Jamie (Heather's sister).
Dan and Michelle---goodness, these two are great. Long time SBC'ers. Dan would call my Danny several times during the week and just make sure he was doing well and encourage him. Michelle and I worked in Awana together and just had a simply wonderful friendship. 
Bobby our worship leader (awesome!!!) and Josh an intern. Harry Jack LOVED all the intern's at SBC and Bobby--I think Harry's first word was B-O-B-B-Y! Thanks guys for letting Harry drive you all nuts! I know it got annoying at times!
Lauryn and Mark! Lauryn is our pastor's secretary. She is the glue that holds it all together--or should I say listens to all the chaos/junk and then deals with it. She is one great lady. Mark is just the nicest man! One thing I love about Lauryn and Mark is the show their love for each other. They are empty nesters and Danny and I have said more than once, "We want to be like Mark and Lauryn when we get big."
My park friend Angela (wife to Derek above) with baby number 3 in her tummy. I am gonna miss this girl! We have been going to the park every Tuesday for a LONG time. For the rest of my life I will always think of Angela when I see a playground! Sniff Sniff! 
Sniff sniff again! This is the Scott family. They have 5 children too, all between the ages of 2 and 6 I think. When I'm having a bad day I think of Mandy and then I feel better. At least I have 2 older children to help me out, Mandy doesn't. Mandy is a GREAT mommy and I know every now and then, she has tougher days than me! I'm gonna miss seeing this sweet-sweet family! 
Lori and Tina work in the preschool. Long time SBC'er!!!! We were on our way to Lori's house the night we had to take Margaux to the hospital (her husband is a Dr and told us we need to go). It was a bitter sweet night for us. We were sad that Margaux was in the ER, and we also were sad that we couldn't go out on the boat and jet ski's!!! But we made up for it a few nights later. Thank you Lori and family for the FUN time and good food. And Lori---I didn't get to hug you goodbye! Aww man!
Nicole, Becky, and Ginger--Oh me oh my! Truly good girls! They are on staff at SBC. They were bummed that I took their pictures in these great, "Ask me about camp" shirts, so thanks girlies for letting me. Each of these girls helped Danny out GREATLY with his job. Nicole is the money lady, Becky is the preschool lady and Ginger is the hospitality lady. All three of these girls are just perfect in their roll at SBC. I'm gonna miss Nicole's upbeat fun personality, Becky's sweet gentle smile and Ginger's servanthood. 
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