Sunday, August 29, 2010

Why does it seem like it takes so long to blog? It doesn't. To catch up. Wednesday, I traveled to #22 to see another initiation. It was so good to be there. Amber has already been active with the Bethel, so I believe she will easily fit right into all their activites. The food after was so gooood. I really do love Italian the best.

Speaking of good food. Thursday night, I was honored to be a guest at First Bethel Guardian Council. Thanks, Jane for the sloppy Joes. I would rather have had your cottage cheese, but I could not eat it and the sloppy Joes, I could. We had a lot of good fellowship and Lynn and I reported on Supreme Session. Everyone needs to ask him, what a Tim Tam Slam is.

The OV's, Saturday, started off with 2 more new members being initiated into Bethel #2, Mikayla and Steffani. Mikayla is the stepdaughter and niece of two of our Daughters of the Nile members, so I had actually talked with her about joining last March at our Installation. I believe this makes something like number 15 and 16 since June and we have another one to be initiated at Shelbyville Monday evening. Then September starts and already girls are lining up to join. Daughters and adults you must be creating a "buzz" about our Order.

Did I mention that we had Italian for lunch at Clinton? Wonderful. I loved the smell of garlic and the taste.

In the afternoon, I actually got to do something, that I cannot say has been a dream of mine, but was so special. Our first baby to be dedicated this year was Hailey Mae Lucille Carter, my own little sunshine and granddaughter. The reason that it was never a dream, was that after the twins I thought Megan was finished having babies.

The Obligation Ceremony was also so special--not only sharing with the active Daughters, but also the Majority Members in the room. Did you know that once a year each Bethel is supposed to perform the majority and/or obligation ceremony at either a regular or special meeting? It is in the by-laws.

I want to inform everyone that Julie Cox is our assistant web master in charge of Bethel News.
Please send your articles about Bethel activities to her by the 10th of each month and then she will forward them to Tiffany, so all she has to do is post one file. Also, begin sending all media releases to Julie. Remember, if you send her or Tiffany a picture, you must have a media release on file for everyone in the picture.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Last night at Bethel #38, Tiffany Smith was initiated. I think this makes our 12th new Daughter since June. It was good to see the girls from #107 who came to help. You all did a good job, especially the ones who jumped from station to station--way to go Jamie and Mahaley. Genesis was there to preside and Elecia sat with the new Daughter and helped her get through the rest of the meeting.

Bethel #38 told me they were all going to Job-A-Rama. I am looking forward to it. Girls, our Supreme Bethel HQ, Courtney Painter will be there, also. There is still time to register.

I forgot to mention that Saturday at Fort Wayne, Lynn and I installed Carey Carter as our Grand Chaplain. It was also his birthday, so now he will always remember what he did on his 55th birthday.

Tonight, I am visiting #22 to welcome our 13th new Daughter. That is my lucky number.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The first OV's are history and what a glorious one. Bethels #8 and #27 did the majority ceremony for 4 lovely young women to crown their years as active daughters. Fort Wayne lost some wonderful active members, but will now gain some wonderful adult workers.

The afternoon OV with Bethels #25 and #115 gave me the oportunity to renew my obligation along with them. This was wonderful as I have not participated in this ceremony in a long while. Thank you for not making me kneel.

I missed sending congrats to the Region #5 ladies who washed cars for HIKE. They earned enough for each one of them to get their pin and white dove. I am so happy you are working for HIKE and my car sure needed the wash, so I am sorry I felt so bad that day that I forgot.
Way to go--Jasmine, Amanda, Rustie, Macy, and Mara.

I am off to #38 this evening. They are initiating.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Hi, Megan, the girls, and I arrived home yesterday about 2:15 a.m. so I just unpacked and slept all day.

To finish up with Supreme--election went well with a lady from Washington being elected Supreme Marshal and a man from Alberta elected as Supreme Outer Guard. The lady, Patty Reardon, has a daughter, Heather, who served as SBHQ several years ago and she came to Indiana's JAR. The whole family are dedicated workers and will be an asset.

The proposal to do away with the relationship requirement was defeated again.

At the Grand Luncheon, I learned to make a Tim Tam Slam. Ask Lynn what it is. He has tried it but I haven't had the chance to do it yet.

The SB Installation went well and the girls looked lovely. I hope they all get a chance to travel in our Job's Daughter world, so they can enjoy their experience so much more.

Saturday, I got to spend most of the day with my niece and nephew and my college roommate--they all live in Denver. We visited Garden of the Gods, Old Colorado, and Manitou Springs. The scenery was amazing and we got to catch up a lot.

The Supreme Council Installation was great except for the musical chairs. The floor was small, so it was very crowded until everyone was installed. Vicki assumed the office of Supreme 4th Messenger and made us all proud. A lot of us went out afterwards as a final farewell to Supreme. We were up early as we wanted to get away as soon as we could. The drive home was really uneventful--just long.

I received the call last night about Ann Gobin, a long time Job's worker, passing. I hope many of you can take some time to attend the cross at the funeral home Wednesday at 6:00 pm.

Friday, August 6, 2010

I cannot believe we have been so busy. I guess it is because I am sitting through all the business meetings which I have never had to do before.
I think the last thing I talked about was on Tuesday.
Wednesday morning Lynn and I had breakfast with the other GGs and AGGs and Toni and Rick (the new Supreme and Associate Supreme--or they will be Sat.) A lot of the people we remembered from other get-togethers with them.

Then those meetings started. We heard lots of reports and started on the 46 ammendments. We still have over 1/2 to do and some of the ones coming up are the real controversial ones.

The All Job's Daughter's Luncheon was fun--even Stacey and Hailey came and we fed her a lemon--Hailey.

Back to meetings. Then we had the formal banquet. Toni sat with us at our table. We were sort of rushed out of there to the Formal Opening.
It was definitely different. All the daughters got to sit in the chairs and the adults had to take the bleacher seats. It also lasted from 7:30 until 10:45. At first, since we were not in the program Lynn and I thought we were not going to take the usual turn around the floor as GG and AGG, but suddenly they asked all of us to line up. They did actually remember to bring us in though but we were then taken to an area and had to sit in the bleachers way up high. The flag ceremony lasted 40 minutes, but Mahaley and Maddy did a good job. Elecia participated in the Necrology Ceremony and Rustie accepted Amanda Thomlinson's scholarship for her. Way to go Amanda!

This am we had Supreme Bethel and I must have let out a squeal when they pulled Indiana for SBJP, cause everyone turned around and looked at me. Way to go Rustie, Lindsey, and Mahaley. We are proud of you.

The Royalty Luncheon as usual was fun and we had a good IN turnout. The men went to Men of Job's luncheon.

The states of CA and MI invited us to Oakland in 2013 for Supreme Session. Their song was real cute.

We started in on more reports and ammendments until someone reminded the Supreme Guardian there was a pageant that night and some people had dinners to attend.

Then the pageant. We were real proud of Rustie and the way she represented IN. After the top ten were named and they answered their question (it was a pretty decent one this year) I called the winner. The girl from Brazil was very good and I hope she can travel to a lot of the US.
Ask Brittney Utley about having to answer a final question. She did a good job too.

I am going to bed now as election starts at 8:00 in the morning. I also do not want to blog about my abilities as a waitress, but ask Lindsey Noland and she can tell you. The Indiana Get-together was fun and thanks Kathy Cooper for taking care of it for us.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Yesterday was such a full day I did not have time to post, but I did have time to talk with our Miss Mandy and mom, Penny (wished her a Happy Birthday). By the way, today is George Ingles Birthday.

We started the day by wishing the girls on the Ritual Team luck and waited until they were finished. We then wished Mahaley, Rustie, and Genesis good luck on their individual catagories. After that we took off with Rustie's mom, Lyrray in tow to drive up Pike's Peak. Megan did all the driving and I just had anxiety attacks all the way up and down from mile marker 13. We even had road construction. We did get some great shots of the scenery and only had to rest 1/2 and hour on the way down to cool our breaks.

When we got back we wished Rustie luck as she started her competition.

The HIKE dance was in the evening and the uniform for Indiana was the GB T-shirts, which everyone loved.

More later, I am on my way to the Formal Banquet.

Still Monday, August 2, 2010

I thought I would do this before going to bed, because I do not plan to wake up at 2:10 a.m. tomorrow. The Messenger Team has just gone to practice. They compete at 8:40 in the morning. We attended the talent show this evening and the performing arts awards were given out. Genesis was the only Indiana competitor and she came away with 3rd place in the Speech catagory.

This morning was spent registering, checking out session sales, and visiting with old friends from all over. The Alumni Luncheon was next and we were in a ballroom with a view on three sides of the mountains. It was spectacular. After lunch Megan and I took Stacey and Hailey to the Focus on the Family campus here in Colorado Springs. They had fun playing in the children's area and I enjoyed being somewhere I had heard about from its founder, James Dobson, for years.

I actually got a one hour nap with Hailey after we got back. Then saw Elecia and Becca who had a blast on the rafting trip. The good weather ended with an absolute downpour, which destroyed their plans for laying out. We ran out for McD's (Stacey's choice) during a lull and got back before it started up again. I hope that is the end of rain. Now I am off to bed.

Monday, August 2, 2010

We made it to Colorado Springs! We stopped at the Air Force Academy on our way in and boy, was it impressive. The beauty of it cannot be described. Megan said if you had to be stuck somewhere for 4 years, this would be the place to do it.

We got checked in without much bother but a long wait in line. Saw lots of old friends in the lobby--from both Indiana and other jurisdictions. Stacey wanted pizza, so we took a breather and ordered in. We had promised Hailey she would not have to get in her car seat again. We wondered around the hotel for a little, and I ran into Rustie and her mom, Elecia and her mom, Denise and Kathy Coslet and friends from WI and NB. I am still on Indiana time though and we turned in early. The messenger team was practicing at 9:00 pm, but I was sound asleep by then. That is why I am up so early doing this. I thought a long walk around the hotel and maybe I would get a couple more hours of sleep. Hope, hope.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

We have made it to Salina, KS. Yesterday was pretty uneventful. Just a lot of miles. The car is packed to the hilt. I do not know where we could put anything else.

Heard from Bonita last night, so know she, Elecia, Rustie, and Lyrray made it in all right. She also said she had seen Wanda, so know that part of the family arrived safely. Vicki and Jim are behind us about 25 miles in Topeka. When they checked in to their hotel Past Supreme Guardian Judy Masters was also checking in. With her was another good friend from KS, Carolyn Block (she attended IN's GS Installations this year). Mom Judy was SG when Megan was SB Marshal, so can't wait to see her.

This is my 20th Supreme Session. I would have never believed it all those years ago in 1971, that I would have been attending as your GG in 2010.

Time to get on the road.