Blessed Beyond Belief

Dear Sir and Madam, We were invited by a friend to a Jr. High Drama Play last night at LA Lutheran. We had our whole family in attendance. We have children from the ages of 3 all the way up to 11. I must tell you we were deeply grieved and disgusted with the material presented in your play. We wrote down some of the many things that we found disturbing for you: "My teacher is a moron. If you didn't hear me I'll say it louder--MY TEACHER IS A MORON! I think I might kill him and bury his body with this cork in his mouth" "That boy that you like? He's over there kissing your older sister." "I saw that cute boy first!" While enacting a witch’s ceremonial religious ritual with candles lit and red lights shown: Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed. Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time." Round about the cauldron go; In the poisoned entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has ...

David is excelling in sign language and communicated to us that he was sick yesterday. After taking his temperature, I realized he was right. Bad that he is sick. Great that he could tell us! :) Since we last posted, 3 out of our 6 family members has come down with Fifth Disease . David currently has a fever and we are wondering if he will come down with it too. Ahh , illnesses, the results of sin and one more thing we will be glad to be free from in heaven! Interestingly, we had a very good lesson come from our appearing in the local newspaper (The LA Times). After being interviewed about our interest in growing fruit trees in our backyard, it turns out we are depending upon their harvest to feed our needy family of 6! Something like "Tim and Wendy Petta painstakingly researched what trees to choose for their backyard, which has 40 fruit trees crammed onto a 8000 sq ft lot, to help feed their four children" !!!! Can you believe it! So what was the lesson? That the media sev...

Well, it is official. This blog rocks! I cannot contain the amounts of requests given to continue journaling my mundane wanderings! (wink, wink~ Amy) As you can see to the left, Nacho Libre rocks too! This drawing is courtesy of Allison Petta age 5. So what is new with us. Well, Kayla, Maddie and I have faithfully read our bible in a year reading every day so far this year. WOO HOO ! It feels so good to be disciplined in this area of our lives and even though K & M have been dead dog sick this past week, they have not missed a day. I am also excited about some wall charts I am going to be ordering from Rose Publications . These charts will help us to keep straight the kings, prophets, times and places as we read through the old testament. Our Korean students arrived on Monday and they did not have American names. After being told by their teacher to pick American names, they proceeded to not pick names. So I named them. They are Rachael and Sara. They seemed ...

Tim and I will be in the side bar of the front page of the LA Times this Thursday. :)

1/4/08 Today Kayla, Maddie and I read from Genesis about Noah, his sons, and the tower of Babel. We are attempting to read through the bible in a year, together. We then went to Sam’s club where Maddie spied a “Groovy Girl” set on sale for 10.37. It was regularly 24.97. Since they had about 35 boxes on hand, I convinced Maddie that if she waited a few days the price would probably go down more. I also decided that I need to take the girls through a bible study about how to be good stewards of their money. It seems that as soon as one has money in one’s pocket, so begins the battle for choosing to love God more than money and what it can buy. I am looking into some Larry Burkett material. After buying vegetarian fed organic eggs (2.84 for 18) and 2 gallons of nonfat milk (about 2.00 gallon) at Sam’s Club, we drove over to Valley Foods. Here we picked up about 7 pounds of very fresh and tender green beans (2 lbs for 1.00). I will freeze some of them. We also p...