My blog is back...I have high speed internet!

I know, I know...if you didn't know better, you may think I had disappeared off the face of the earth. I have been absent from my blog for a very long time. The frustration of dial-up finally got to me and I gave up on a lot of my internet hobbies for awhile. But the great news is that David and I finally got high speed internet and I can now do all the things I was missing before.


This is the run down of what has been going on in the lives of the Dunham family...

David is still teaching English at Shawnee State University. After our pastor at Bigelow Church left, David felt that he should step up and put his application in for the job. He went on to fill the pulpit for a few months but upon realizing his lack of experience in everything but preaching he decided to follow our former pastor to Christ's Community Church which is also in Portsmouth. David is currently employed by CCC and is beyond excited at all the learning experiences is has had and will have there. The current pastor started the church and has been there around 50 years...and a few of the other pastors are very experienced as well. David gets to attend sermon reviews, planning meetings and just gets to see all of them in action. We are enjoying the preaching, the people, the involvement the church has in the community and the music...among other things. We are very happy that God has led us to CCC!

We just moved into our new house on Friday and are still getting uppacked. We have gotten pretty good at the moving process and I think we would already be done except that I got called for jury duty and actually got picked to serve Monday and Tuesday for a case that has gone on for 15 years, is well known in the community and involved some very graphic details...so, it ended up taking from 9am-6 or 7 pm on both days and it really drained me. But when it was all over it felt good to know that I contributed and helped to bring justice...it was interesting, I got to practice being assertive and I made 8 new friends.

Maleigha (who will soon be 18 months) loves our new church and our new house. She likes having so many new friends to play with at church and she loves the music. She is really enjoying our new house...every time she walks into her new room she says, "Oh WOW!". At our old house all of her toys had to be spread out everywhere but her new room is big enough for everything...and it is pink! Her time is divided between playing in her room and walking up and down the stairs (with parental assistance, of course).

And relating to her health--we are still in the process of getting a neurological consult for her (something we have been attempting since her diagnosis at 3 months). We keep hitting speed bumps along the way...there have been so many more tests than I ever thought there would be. I thought she would be diagnosed and then we do something about it. I didn't know we had to find out so much more info in other departments before we could move on to the neurological aspect of it. And I never imagined they would cancel so many appointments. But in the last couple days we have experienced hope. My mom contacted a lady that our family knows that is on the board at Cincinatti Children's and she has given me someone to talk to that may get some things done for us. God has a plan for all of this...even if it has been just to teach us some patience.

Now that I have filled in the blanks of the last few months I will take a break for now and hopefully be back to blogging another day this week.