My birthday week/weekend is winding down, and I'm OK with that.  I love having my birthday; I'm not freaking out about getting older, I'm just enjoying getting to see family and all the birthday wishes on Facebook, and when it's over it's kind of nice to settle back into routine.

My family was going to come visit for the whole weekend, but my mom ( Read more... )

We've spent the last several days in our old stomping grounds down here in Columbus.  We came down for a wedding but we extended our stay a few days to make this our anniversary trip, so we arrived on Thursday and will be heading home tomorrow.  It's been a good trip -- we got to see lots of church people at the wedding and this morning, and we've ( Read more... )

 This past weekend was a really great one, with lots of fantastic stuff, but it was so exhausting that we're STILL tired from it.

( Football Camp! )

Our Sunday School class is just finishing up a study of Pilgrim's Progress -- we will probably finish it next week -- and so we filled out a survey listing some other books that were options for the next to study.  The winner was The Screwtape Letters, which makes me happy because it's a fantastic book and it's been a long time since I read through ( Read more... )

It's supposed to be snowing terribly out.  It's not really doing much of anything.  It snowed a bit this afternoon but not much of it was sticking snow.  They canceled church and choir practice because of what it was supposed to do, which was a good call based on what they were calling for, but...yeah.  I'm a little disappointed.  Maybe tonight we' ( Read more... )

We've been very slowly getting involved at our new church -- we've been in the choir a few months now, and just recently joined a Sunday School class studying Pilgrim's Progress.  But otherwise, there hasn't been anything that really jumped out at us to say "This is a ministry you should do."  Until this past Sunday, when they started talking about ( Read more... )

I grew up in a small rural United Methodist church that leaned heavily on its EUB roots.  We never bothered much with the UM denomination as a whole, because frankly we just did our own thing even when it went against what the "universal" UMs were doing.  We sent delegates to the annual conference - I went as a page once! - and we of course were ( Read more... )

Said a lot of goodbyes in the last four days.

( Parsons )

On Thursday I was feeling snuffly, a bit sore-throated, etc, but I am the "in charge" person on Thursday nights so I went to work anyway.  Later that night amberdulen  arrived, which was awesome.  On Friday we went grocery shopping, I cooked, we did a little bit of cleaning up, some running, etc.  I felt a little icky then but we managed to spend a little ( Read more... )

I am trying to write a rondeau.  That...is about the extend of what I'm doing today.  I don't think I even have the energy to *try* to do more than that.

Mostly this is because I spent about 48 hours doing stuff over the weekend, haha.  We had our church's Easter cantata last night.  We were both involved: engelhardtlm1  was playing keyboard with the worship ( Read more... )