Sue stays busy

Sue is rolling into 2019 with lots of things going on. Her interpreting career is going very well - she has assignments all week and enjoys what she does. She continues to be involved with swimming with The Swim Center, continues to paint beautiful pictures, visits people in the hospital, and is hoping to start a sign language class this spring. Go, Sue!

Done with air cast!

Sue had a good visit with the doctor.  He said her bone is about 60% healed and she no longer needs to wear the air cast. So long, Enrique! (that's what we nicknamed the boot :-)

Good visit with Mom Emery

Sue and Kevin rode down with Claudia so they could pick up the car we are buying from my mother.  Then they drove the car up to Penney Farms to check in with Mom Emery after her fall.  Mom Emery is healing well and is in good spirits.  Her memory loss and mental faculties are such that everything stays new, but she is happy and taken care of well by the people at PRC.

Good trip to PA

Sue helped Megan move to Pennsylvania this week.  She, Megan's fiance Booker, and Megan drove two vehicles packed to the gills with Megan's stuff up to Krislund Camp and Conference Center. Megan starts her full-time position as one of the camp directors there this week. 

They got moving early on Sunday morning because Megan and Booker wanted to stop at a church in Roanoke, VA, that they had read about.  It was a good church service but it was via satellite and there were some technical difficulties, which was sad. 

Once they got to the camp Megan showed Sue all around, showed her where Booker proposed to her, and showed her the cabin she will be staying in.  It's a very nice camp and should be lots of fun for her. 

Remember, Sue did this with her new friend Enrique, the air cast the doctor told her to wear.  Sue put the foot up when she could but didn't let it slow her down very much. 

They met up with Booker's mom and some other family to go and see some of the scenery near the camp.  Pennsylvania is a beautiful state when you get out away from the cities, and Sue enjoyed it very much. 

On the drive home Sue stopped and visited the Natural Bridge in Virginia, one of the places we went camping when the kids were young.  It had been closed for a while but was open again and was just as beautiful as before. 

Good job, Sue!

Sue broke her foot!

 She was walking our dog Mickey and hit the curb the wrong way.  As she went down she felt a huge "pop" in her right foot.  The ortho doctor explained that the muscles in her lower legs are so strong that as she tried to regain her balance two of them were pulling so hard on one of the bones in her foot that it broke! She gets to wear an air cast for the next six weeks with orders from the doctor sit with her foot raised as much as she can.  I doubt that she'll do that enough!

Enjoyed a medical interpreting workshop

Sure has been interpreting college anatomy classes for a while so she was excited about learning more techniques to improve her skills. She enjoyed all the learning as well as being with her professional friends.  Good stuff!

Sue doing good as Booster President

She was elected at the beginning of the season and had worked hard to help the school Soccer program.  Coordinating pre-game meals, helping with fundraising,  and deviating for Senior night,  she just keeps giving.  Good job,  Sue!

Good time with friends

Sue has had a good time her friends over the holidays.  We were honored to have Alice Turner, a deaf/blind friend of our family,  as a house guest this week.  Alice is in her words a "wild butterfly" that is always encouraging and patient. She tells funny jokes and stories, too. She is an amazing lady!

Enjoyed Black Friday shopping

Sue got up at 3am to join in the madness that is Black Friday shopping.  She and her friends Pam, Tiffany, and Sonja had a good time mixing it up with everyone else out there.  Then she came home, put her prizes in her closet, and took Kevin out to do more shopping!

Career going well

Sue's career in sign language is going well.  She continues to take assignments all around the metro Atlanta area and has a good time meeting different people and interpreting in different situations.  She still enjoys interpreting in a college setting a lot, and continues to get assignments like that.  I'm proud of how well she's doing! 

Mental health interpreting workshop went well

Sue continues to develop herself and her interpreting skills.  Even though she's nationally certified and has over 20 years experience interpreting she continues to learn and grow.  This past weekend she went to a mental health interpreting workshop in north Georgia to connect with the people and get involved in the program.  She has taken mental health interpreting training in Alabama and wants to continue to learn in this field.  The workshop was good and she met a lot of people.  Sounds like she might be doing this monthly for a while as she develops the relationships and skills needed.  Go, Sue! 

Sue interpreted in church today!

Her friend Polly has wanted to try SCC for a while, so Sue approached the church leadership and got some buy-in on letting her interpret.  She's very excited about the opportunity and really enjoyed interpreting this morning.  Hopefully this will blossom into another avenue for the deaf and hard of hearing to get teaching from the Word of God! 

Sue "danced" in church today

She and some others did a choreographed thing with her doing some sign language in a praise song in all three services today.  She's so good! 

Good HIDS group today

Sue has a group of friends that she tries to get together once a month with called the 'HIDS group'.  HIDS stands for Hard of hearing, Interpreters, Deaf, Socializing or something like that.  She has some regulars and then she has some people that come sometimes.  Today she had Meskel, Debbie, Mary Ann, and a couple of others and they enjoyed eating and talking for a couple of hours.  It's nice to see them together having fun! 

Another successful spaghetti dinner!

Sue organized and help run another spaghetti dinner to raise money for a mission trip.  This time it was for the Honduras trip she and Stephen are going on this summer.  This one was fully an SCC thing and a whole new group of people helped out, which was awesome!  The event raised over $500 for the trip, which is a great blessing to everyone trying to raise their money.  Go, Sue! 

Sue helped her mother this weekend

Sue's mom had to have some eye surgery, so Sue went down to help her out.  Things went well, and Mom Emery is recovering nicely. 

This was the first trip to FL in the new-to-us Jetta and it did well, too.  Sue said it was fun to drive and handled traffic just fine.  Woohoo! 

Good birthday celebration!

We had a great time celebrating Sue's birthday today.  One of the best parts of the celebration was a surprise visit from her brother Dan, who was in Charlotte for some work stuff and came to Atlanta for a conference or something and spent the night with us.  I made a strawberry cake with plenty of frosting on it, and our server at Cafe Milano's did a great job taking care of us. 

I love our family, and I love it when we have celebrations together like this.  As the kids get older I know we'll have this less, which makes it all the more fun while we get to be together.  Woohoo! 

Good mission trip to Mexico

Sue went with 3 other people to Kantunilkin, Qroo, Mexico, to do some mission work down there.  She went as a sign language interpreter for a deaf missionary and to help teach hearing teachers in the town some sign language.  She was also asked to share some info on and experience in starting a deaf ministry at a church, something she has done at two churches so far. They also went to share toys and Bibles with some of the children in surrounding villages and to seek out deaf kids in the area. 

This was a great experience for her.  The teachers down there soaked up everything she and the others shared with them, and taking the toys and gifts out to the children for 3 Kings Day was a lot of fun for the team.  She said that the people were very nice, and she especially enjoyed learning more spanish from Florinda, their cook for the week. 

It was a lot of fun, and she came back tired and needing rest.  Of course, she is back up to full speed with me and the kids and looking for whatever adventure God has for her next...

Sue's going on a mission trip!

She was asked to be part of a small team from the Georgia Baptist Conference of the Deaf that is going to minister to deaf children in Cancun, Mexico (not the vacation side :-)  She will be going down there on 1/2/14 for a week to help them celebrate Los Treyes Reyes (Three Kings Day).  She is looking forward to working with these experienced missionaries and in practicing her spanish sign language.  You can read more on GBCD's site.  Go, Sue!

Sue doing well

She is keeping busy with all the things she is involved in.  Her career in interpreting is going well - she takes assignments that fit with our family schedule and does others when we can coordinate the movement of the kids between each other so she can do it.  She continues to help Ann, our friend that had a stroke at our house over the summer.  Ann is a challenge but Sue has built a team of people that go by and check on Ann, help Ann, and take Ann different places.  She keeps up with all that Stephen and Kevin are doing, even volunteers to help with different band fundraisers (pizza, concerts, etc.).  She has started teaching sign language at our church and is hopeful that she will be able to start interpreting services there in the future.  And she keeps up with me and my shiftwork.  All the while she has a great time and is a blast to be with.  Go, Sue!