This entry is for double_dear! Tonight I went to a musical that one of the high schoolers at our church was in. It was based off the (Disney) Broadway musical of Beauty and the Beast, and she played Belle!!! I hadn't seen the movie in years so I wondered how well I would remember it all (I have seen it many many times, even if none of them have been recent), ( Read more... )

Whoops, I never finished writing about TCAF. And this'll be my first (so probably only) post for the month of June, too... good thing I didn't let the month slip away entirely ( Read more... )

I was out tonight for a dinner with folks from church ("Saltshaker Dinner," which we do something like yearly? people sign up and then are randomly divided into groups and meet at people's homes and it's fun since you get to spend time with folks you might not normally talk to). When I returned home and opened the door, Josie quickly met me there. ( Read more... )

My brother graduated this weekend! From the University of Michigan! And we are all so proud!! So I was out of town this weekend, seeing the sights of Ann Arbor, where he's been living for much of the last four years. It was a good time, though I am just a bit regretful that I had to miss our church Coffee House that happened this same weekend ( Read more... )

So has no one on my friends list gone to see Secret World of Arrietty yet?  Or have you all gone and just not talked about it?  It's been out for three whole weekends now!  If you haven't seen it, I think you really should, because it is gorgeous.  (Ohhhh, the visuals were so nice to see in this grey winter season...)  I went yesterday (with my ( Read more... )

I got my new teas today!!  I've already sampled two of them, the chocolate-hazelnut one (smells amazing; the flavours aren't quite as strong as I thought they might be though) and the genmaicha (which is exactly as I was hoping it would be! I am most pleased!) and my mum enjoyed a cup of ginger-licorice herbal tea when I had her over for dinner.   ( Read more... )

I had a good day, and a really wonderful evening. It's like, I feel like my soul is satisfied, or something. That sounds like a funny, "poetic" thing to say, but I don't know how else to word it. There was so much great music at church today, and good time spent with church family (and most of my immediate family, Mum, Dad and Derek :D ( Read more... )

Hmm, where are we at in the story of Lys now? I finished the Arts & Rec Camp at church (Friday was nuts and my brain was totally frazzled by the end of the final afternoon of teaching; I cried intermittently during the closing program; but altogether it was something I wouldn't have missed for anything.) We had 160 kids there! That's so many ( Read more... )

This is going to be another one of my "done!" posts; you can click the tag to see the whole series experience the full extent of how giddy and ridiculous I get every single time I finish a project. Phew. It doesn't feel quite real to finally be finished with this lettering project-but I am! (excepting any thing that may come up once the editor ( Read more... )

It has been for me a week of lots of doing-stuff! Let's see... Tuesday I walked to the post office! to buy stamps and mail something (and stopped by the bookstore on the way back and browsed their children's books for like an hour or something). Wednesday morning I went to a friend's and helped her prep for a craft activity we were leading at ( Read more... )