Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. – Isaiah 40:30-31

Hi everybody!

Ladies and Gentlemen; boys and girls; it’s ME!  Yes, ME, the incredible Loren. 

How do ya like that for an introduction?  That’s what I do when I get on stage.  I know, I am not on stage, but I like to say it anyway.

Well, here we are.  I last rote to ya on July 8.  Wow!  It’s only been one and a half months cents I told ya what’s goin’ on. 

Uh oh.  Ya don’t think that means Daddy’s sick do ya?  I mean, sumthing must be wrong if Daddy’s updating my blog this fast.

Ah, who cares.  I’m just happy Daddy is doin’ this now.  I am sure if Daddy is sick, he will take care of it – after he get the update dun.

Let’s see.  What’s been happenin’.

Well, Mommy, Daddy and Trisha took a trip to sumplace called Memphis.  I must have a speshul Mommy and Daddy ‘cause they went to sum king’s house.  Trisha got to go too.  I never heard of this guy, I think his name is Elvis, but they got to go.  I don’t understand, though.  They said they were in Memphis, but the guy was king of Rockin Roll.  Is that sumwhere near Memphis.

Mommy, Daddy and Trisha also went to a place called the National Civil Rights Museum.  Daddy said it was really neat.  See, they took this place called the Loraine Motel and made it into a museum.  Sumbody famus named Martin Luther King got killed there.

Mommy went by herself to a fire fighter’s museum.  Trisha and Daddy went and played Putt-Putt when Mommy was at the museum.  When Mommy got back to the room, she showed ‘em the fire fighter shirt she bot me.  See I couldn’t go ‘cause I was in Shreveport, so she got me a present.  Cents Daddy and Trisha didn’t come with her, they didn’t get a present.  Guess that’ll teach ‘em.  The shirt is grate!

Mommy, Daddy and Trisha then went to a place called Vicksburg.  They went thru this old courthouse that is now a museum.  They said it was really cool.  They bot sum stuff there for friends and Papa Jim.  Daddy got sum hospital bullets.  Now I don’t know why they call ‘em that.  I mean, why would you want to shoot at a hospital.  I spent a lot of time in the hospital and, believe me, they aren’t any fun, but I didn’t ever want to kill it.

Daddy says hospital bullets got their name from when dokters had to cut peeple’s legs off.  Cents they didn’t have any of the stuff I get when I have an operashun, they gave the peeple’s a bullet.  Then, when the leg was cut off, the people wud bite the bullet ‘cause it hurt so bad.

Ok, so that’s what happened to Mommy, Daddy and Trisha.  I, on the other hand, got stuck in Shreveport.  I missed Mommy and Daddy – ok, Trisha too – but I had Memaw, Pawpaw, Maria, George and everyperson else to keep me playin’.  It wazn’t too bad.

August wazn’t that bad of a month.  Daddy had a birthday and he, Mommy and Patrick went to a place called New Orleans a cuple of days.  Say, do ya think they’re tryin’ to tell me sumthin’?  I just been tryin’ to make things go smoothly, but we ran into a problem.

See, when Mommy, Daddy and Trisha got back from their trip, Daddy saw a bump in the floor.  Well, now there are a bunch of bumps and even a cuple of places that are big as mountains!  Everyperson who has looked at it thinks sumthin’ is leakin’, but we haven’t found out why there is a problem.  I think we will have to move out of the house a cuple of weeks while they fix the house.

One bad thing happened this summer.  I started taking swim lessons and the next thing I know, I am afraid of swimmin’.  It’s the funniest thing…well, not so funny…but when I get in the water, I get real scared and won’t let go of whoever is holding me.

Oh, yeah!  I got a new sister!  No foolin’.  Well, just a little foolin’.  She’s not my sister, but she is living with us.  See, this nice girl, we will call her Jessica, has moved into our house.  ‘Course Jessica isn’t her real name, but Daddy says I can’t use her real name.  Her Mommy and her Mommy’s boyfriend don’t want her livin’ with ‘em anymore, so Mommy and Daddy said she cud stay with us for a while on account of she is Patrick’s friend.  I don’t know why Jessica’s mommy doesn’t want her living at home, but Mommy and Daddy say sum peeples are just that way.  I am glad I don’t have a Mommy and Daddy like that!

So, I been thinkin’.  Ya know, I get tired sumtimes and wanna just give up.  You know, like when ya keep tryin’ to get a new Wiggles DVD goin’, but ya can’t find the rite buttons.  Or, maybe when the physical therapy person keeps puttin’ you in the water and ya really don’t like it.  Sooner or later, I just give up and go with the flow of what sumone is tryin’ to do.  Well, I do believe in Jesus and I do wait for Him to help me and He always duz.  I mean, I don’t fly in the air like eagles, but I do a lot of runnin’ and I know I got lots of energy, just ask Daddy. 

God reminds me of sum things, though.  Like today.  He ‘minded me that things aren’t so bad for me.  ‘Cause of what has happened to Jessica, I know I am lucky.  I got a Mommy and Daddy who love me.  I got a brudder and sister who love me – sumtimes.  I got a home.  There’s lots of peeples who can’t say that, like Jessica.  When y’all have a chance, include Jessica in your prayers.  She’s pretty nice and sure cud use some help rite now.  I just know if we ask God, He will give her strength, and maybe wings, to beat the bad things in her life.

Nite nite,

Love Loren