Sleep

Some interesting conversations about sleep, which I believe are worth repeating, surfaced on Memorial Day. My parents had some friends over for Memorial Day weekend while we were there, and the sleep conversation started when Patti (mom's friend) launched into a recounting of some recent dreams of hers that had us all (me especially) in stitches. Here are some highlights from the conversation:

-Andrew used to text message me in his sleep when we were dating. People sometimes ask me if I am kidding about this. No, I wish I could make up such interesting stories. The fact of the matter is that sometimes I used to wake up in the middle of the night to my text message alert going off. The text messages progressed from complete gibberish to my favorite, "You did it. You have everything. You found Uncle Abroge." When asked about these things the following day, Andrew would have no idea what I was talking about and would have to go through his text message outbox to verify that he did indeed send me text messages in his sleep.

-The man that married us, Doug, sometimes stands over people's beds and stares at them while they (and he) are sleeping. This can be rather unnerving when people wake up to find a tall, sometimes unknown, fellow standing next to their pillow.

-Patti had three crazy dreams in one night.
1. I was making rolls for your mom's party and when we got ready to go I opened them up and there were strings coming out of them everywhere. As I kept pulling them apart, more and more strings started coming out. I said to myself, "Hmm, I think they'll notice."
2. We were going to have a Memorial Day party and invite a bunch of people over; however, the party was not at our house. We had rented a house for the occasion. When I got there to take a look at the house and set up for the party, Kate (my daughter) was sitting on the floor scooping up bugs in her hands. Just piles and piles of bugs everywhere.
3. (Same house, later in the evening.) We began setting up, and I opened one of the kitchen cabinets to find a baby calf laying down inside. He was just calmly laying there with his bowl of milk in the next cabinet, as if this was a normal thing for calves to do.

-Andrew's sister once came upstairs in the middle of the night to find Andrew peeing (in his sleep) in the laundry hamper in the hallway. My cousin also found her husband doing the same thing once...in the refrigerator.

Sleep is a funny thing. I think it is bizarre that people think and do things in their sleep that they would never think or do otherwise.

As far as news in the Fenrick house goes, all is well. I have had more time lately to practice my piano, which I am becoming ever more convinced was perhaps the best investment (beside our house) I have ever made. I got to see my future classroom for the first time this week! It is quite large and is a safe room so that I will not have to move my kids with autism to another location in the event of a tornado or fire drill. People have been unbelievably generous in leaving things for me and letting me go through their teaching tools to find things I need to begin my own classroom. Memorial Day weekend was relaxing and enjoyable. We went down to Flower Mound to see my parents and some of their friends on Saturday. We came back for church on Sunday and then went to a wedding for our RUF friends, Kaitlin and Wes. Yesterday, we got to spend some time with Andrew's family, as well as our good friends, Derek and Erica. The days mostly consisted of food, good conversations, and swimming. This weekend, Tim (my brother) will be coming up to spend the night and then go to a wedding with us in Tulsa on Saturday. I will also get to meet Andrew's grandpa in Tulsa for the first time. We are both excited about a group of college students coming down from Indiana to help our church with some mission work here in Norman from June 5-11. We will have two students staying with us and are looking forward to getting to know them and helping them spread the gospel to people in Norman who desperately need it. The countdown to closing on our house is now at two weeks! Life is a whirlwind around here, but we wouldn't have it any other way. :-)

In Christ alone,
Mary Rachel

Oh, and I found University Fellowship Church's website the other day. Some of you may be interested to see where we go to church. There are already a couple of podcasts up!