MLCer and EA w/ OW

[Jer2911]

I have not ever gone to one of those meetings, but I can understand how it would be a great place to meet people locally...

I ended up deciding to do some reading and then a friend of mine reached out to me via Google Chat and I have been spending some time telling him what is going on here at home (we haven't touched base since before BD -- so he is shocked by the news)...

Talking to him helped a bit -- as did the reading which I am going to get back to in a few minutes before I break for lunch... Then I am heading up to school for a school activity in my son's class... then back home to do some of my online teaching work before I have to go back and pick up the kids from school.

After chatting with my friend this morning I also feel ready to begin sharing the news with a larger network of friends who still don't know -- these friends are not close to us... They are more like colleagues/work friends, but we don't actually work together -- just work in education and know each other from online interaction (blogs, social networking) and attending/presenting at conferences together... But we've all developed a strong bond with each other and I've been absent from some of my normal activity related to them since BD -- time to let them know what is going on... And I know that some of them will begin to put me/us into their prayers -- so can't hurt to expand the prayer circle in this situation.