the Graham Cracker House

Our goliath this month is named Calculus.  Calculus has been around for quite some time.  (As has Goliath- see the similarities).  In fact, I had my encounter with calculus over 8 years ago.  I somehow survived, but just barely.  Now, it's Bjorn's turn.  This is his very last class to take his very last semester at LDSBC.  We are almost  to the next step in our journey for higher education.  Only one thing stands in the way- calculus.  Bjorn has been dreading this class FOREVER.  He had some sort of mental block caused by little gremlins telling him he can't pass- and he believed them!! pfhswah!  Bjorn and I (and the gremlins) had quite a few stern talks about Bjorn's amazing abilities to learn and do anything.   We had family night lessons on Goliaths and how they were conquered.  We likened the scriptures to ourselves and discussed tactics we can use to beat our own Goliath.  Slowly but surely, Bjorn came around.  The positive attitude has started to shine.  He has so many talents and can, without a doubt, pass this class, it just took him a little while to come to that realization.  Now that we are a week into the semester, the possible is looking even more do-able.   He knows (as I have known for a while now) that he can DO this!  


That's all the exciting the news in the Graham household at the moment.  Thoughts and prayers for Bjorn to pass Calculus are appreciated.


House hunting has been slow recently.   We did put an offer on a short-sale house a couple weeks ago. It could take up to a year for us to hear back about it, so we're not holding a breath.


We're slowly getting ready to say good-bye to summer.  Our apartment pool has closed, we spent our first and last day at the lake on Labor Day with a friends boat and family members jet ski.  We're fitting in our last mountain biking escapades, and shopping the ski sales to prepare for winter.
Life is Good.