The Cahill's

Here are the words to the paraody that we song last night. Feel free to copy and paste or whatever you want to do, I’m not registered for any copyright – at least not yet 🙂

If someday it may happen that a class must graduate, I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list. Of Verity staff graduates who might well be potentates, and who surely will be missed, they surely will be missed.

There’s our Dean of Men who greets us with enthusiastic tone;

His dutiful assistant who wants hair unlike his own;

Then Julia who makes all the calls on clothes and rooms and rules,

While Lawren votes that coffee’s the essential study tool;

With Becky meditating on a way to save the school; they brought about renewal, we’ll miss them here at school.

Moving to Department Heads who give us all advice, they’re on this little list, they’re on this little list. While holding us accountable, reviewing templates twice. They’re on this little list, they’re on this little list.

We’ve got Minna, though she’s busy, of your problem she’ll make note;

While Sandy working overtime keeps the “Good Ship” afloat;

Then Josh who taught us all that green and plaid could coexist,

Andrew working DE was a camera humorist,

While Arlen singing witty songs on his guitar insists; I think they will be missed, I’m sure they will be missed.

There is one more group to recognize before they are dismissed; we put them on the list, we put them on the list. We are grateful for the jobs they do and people they assist, so we put them on the list, we put them on the list.

There’s Kendra Benz, who “pretty much” is never seen at meals,

And Curtis who like Superman, performs his job with zeal,

Heather Kern was here six weeks but dearly loved by all,

Remember the projectiles Jess threw in the dining hall,

While Heather’s large vocabulary kept us on the ball; we’re going to miss them all, we’re going to miss them all. We put them on the list, we put them on the list and they’ll all of them be missed, they’ll all of them be missed.

Oh wow! It’s sooo good to see my family again! Our excitement must have affected our memories though because we forgot our sleeping bags and passports, necessitating a stop back in Flint on our way to Canada – hence the opportunity to post J

We spent all day at sleeping bear dunes, hiking over the sand, skipping stones in lake Michigan, viewing the beauty of spring, and coming upon the tail end of the “Second Annual Asparagus festival” of Empire MI! Talk about enjoying times of laughter together.

Late in the afternoon we made it to the overlook where the dune drops 450 feet down to the water. Dad gave some of us permission to go down if we felt like it so five of us took off down the slope. The trip down was very easy and we spent a little time looking for the “perfect rock” before heading back up. The signs at the top weren’t kidding about the hard climb, every step you took slid back half way in the lose sand and the grade was so steep you could almost crawl upright.

As we climbed I started seeing some parallels to the Christian walk. The first was finding that if I followed my brother and stepped in his footprints, then the sand was already packed a little and I didn’t slide backwards as much. Next was finding out the truth of the verse “they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.” A lot of times I like to keep going even when I’m tired, thinking it a shame to have to stop and rest, but if I just took the time to stop with the others it was amazing how much better I could go on than if I had kept pushing. Lastly I noticed that as we got towards the top there were a lot of stones mixed in with the sand, but as the way became rocky, the climbing got easier because the rocks helped hold the sand better and kept you from slipping back.