Hand Raising

I attended Women of Faith last weekend -- a pretty good weekend. While there I was just wondering about hand raising during the praise and worship singing. Some people raise 1 hand, some people raise 2 hands and some people don't raise their hands. I don't think any choice is wrong, and I happen to be of the "don't raise my hands" group; it just got me to wondering about it.
Is it a "denominational" thing? Is it a taught in some churches and therefore becomes standard practice there. Some people think that it is the Holy Spirit moving people, but I can't believe that HE moved that whole group of people in red shirts but didn't move too many in my group of green shirts that happen to be of the "frozen chosen" denomination. I know the Holy Spirit speaks to me, I've heard it, but I've never heard "raise your hands now". I don't mean to offend anybody -- I was really just wondering!

It's hard to remember what day it is!

Actually I know it must be Thursday because I worked today -- and I was only going to work on Thursday this week. But it has been an interesting week.

Saturday, we had a party because Kev was home, Kat and some others are now seniors in high school, a daughter of a friend was leaving for her freshman year in college -- anyway time for a party. Good time and good food was had by all! My dear husband grilled bulgogi for awhile on the grill -- I had bought LOTS of meat for it.

Sunday, another friend, her two daughters, Kat and I headed down south to see Texas State Univ. We stayed in a Hamptom Inn and I got upgraded to a suite! (DH has lots of Hilton points). Monday, we toured the campus. Friend's daughter was quite enamored with it and enjoyed it a lot. My dd, on the other hand, doesn't like humidity, needs it to be winter some of the time so she can use some of the stuff she knits, and she HATES stairs. The university has stairs everywhere. It is built on hills so you go up stairs to this building and then downstairs and back up another set of stairs to that building. In other words, it isn't going to be her college. It was worth looking at though.

Monday afternoon, we drove to Fredericksburg and stayed for a couple days. We relaxed, read and ate muffins (inside joke), and shopped. Good times. Then yesterday we drove back completely on back roads. It was so much fun. I love traveling with someone who doesn't mind that I drive on the back roads if I can.

OH -- last Friday, we were notified that two of dd's classes were cancelled so we went up early Saturday morning and got her enrolled in a history class with the professor that she really likes. However all the other classes were full until payment time came which was that night. Husband went to the college Monday morning and got her enrolled in a government class too. So all is set for fall semester.

Today I worked and this weekend I will be at Women of Faith.

Good news for my lovely offspring -- Kat has been accepted into the Honors College at OSU and Kev has been selected to be a columnist for the Daily Toreador at TTU! Now Kat just needs to be accepted to OSU from their admissions office. They were missing my transcript--which I think I mailed, but I mailed them another one anyway.

An End of the Week Update

It's been another week (longer in the blog world). I've worked, I've begun tutoring an adult taking college algebra, I've volunteered at the library, and last but not least, I've helped my daughter apply to college. Yes her first application is at Oklahoma State University. I requested her transcripts from various colleges be sent to them (3 hrs at SMU and 14 so far at TCC). I'm sure she'll be accepted. She also applied to the Honor's College. So far, she hasn't been able to apply for housing which is the most important - better dorms go quickly. However, at OSU each dorm (including suites) must be at least 50% freshman. This means she has a better chance at a suites style dorm.

In a couple weeks we are traveling to San Marcos to look at Texas State Univ. I'm pretty sure though that she will think it is too humid and she doesn't want to have a "bad hair" day everyday. We just found out that some friends are making this trip with us -- so that will be alot of fun.

Kevin should be home in the next couple of days for a few days. We need to eat at Babes, Waffle Way, get new phones and a new phone plan that allows texting, and see some movies while he is here. Maybe next week will be more exciting than this one!