Inspired by my friend Puffbird, here is a hiaku:
Carts dance on pavement,
Wind and rain as their partners,
Ignoring man's lines.
Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
More pictures!
Cake pictures! I also have to say thank you to Nana for the baptism onesie. She put the stitched butterfly on the onesie which is much more my style than having a frilly lacy thing.
I also finally found a picture that Roger happened to be in (along with Catherine and Nathan).
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Friends and family!
Peter and Jo
Nana with Doug and Jo
Danielle with Jo
Traci with Jo
Catherine with her son Nathan (and Andy in the background)
We get by with a little help from our friends
Ok, so maybe it is with a lot of help from our friends.
My in-laws actually lined the bathroom drawers and shelves and got almost all the stuff off the counter and put away two boxes of stuff marked "bathroom." They also helped setup food and Wayne swept and straightened the laundry room (where I had pulled up the flooring).
Our friends Peter, Traci, and Danielle helped generally straighten and manage food and children, etc. Peter (and Danielle) helped set-up our desktop computers and get them all hooked-up to the Internet. These are the same people who packed most of my house and helped pack the truck when we were moving out. We wouldn't have gotten moved if it hadn't been for them.
In the process of trying to find things (for the baptism lunch, the parts to setting up the computers, etc.) I actually finally found some phones to plug in! So we are definitely making progress. We also have our cats back. They are pathetically friendly and are having to remember what children are like because they have had a cat "sanctuary" for 6 months while they lived with my in-laws (bless them...I just wasn't sure how I was going to manage cats in an RV).
I think that it doesn't just take a village to raise a child, but it takes a village to survive moves with most of your sanity intact!
My in-laws actually lined the bathroom drawers and shelves and got almost all the stuff off the counter and put away two boxes of stuff marked "bathroom." They also helped setup food and Wayne swept and straightened the laundry room (where I had pulled up the flooring).
Our friends Peter, Traci, and Danielle helped generally straighten and manage food and children, etc. Peter (and Danielle) helped set-up our desktop computers and get them all hooked-up to the Internet. These are the same people who packed most of my house and helped pack the truck when we were moving out. We wouldn't have gotten moved if it hadn't been for them.
In the process of trying to find things (for the baptism lunch, the parts to setting up the computers, etc.) I actually finally found some phones to plug in! So we are definitely making progress. We also have our cats back. They are pathetically friendly and are having to remember what children are like because they have had a cat "sanctuary" for 6 months while they lived with my in-laws (bless them...I just wasn't sure how I was going to manage cats in an RV).
I think that it doesn't just take a village to raise a child, but it takes a village to survive moves with most of your sanity intact!
Monday, January 21, 2008
Baptism Pictures!
I did take pictures but haven't downloaded them from my own camera. So these pictures are from Pop's camera and from our friends Peter and Traci. I had to laugh because at the last minute Wade, who is a friend of our pre-move and also happens to be our minister, chickened out and had me walk up and down the aisle with Jo. I will post more pictures of family and friends once I get a chance and hopefully will be able to take house pictures soon!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Friends & Family!
Jo is officially baptized now!
We had a little snow (yep snow in this Southern state) that didn't stick on Saturday morning. All friends and family got here ok. Nana and Pop thankfully helped get more stuff put up. So the house wasn't perfect but definitely workable. I only had to run down to find things out of boxes like 3 or 4 times when we were getting lunch together.
We had a little snow (yep snow in this Southern state) that didn't stick on Saturday morning. All friends and family got here ok. Nana and Pop thankfully helped get more stuff put up. So the house wasn't perfect but definitely workable. I only had to run down to find things out of boxes like 3 or 4 times when we were getting lunch together.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
New Year
2007 was pretty good to me. A lot happened (not all of which was good but most everything turned out well in the end).
I don't remember a lot from the first 4 months (mostly I remember being pregnant and stressed from taking classes). The last 8 have been pretty incredible with all of the changes. My family has been altered in many ways...from the addition of Jo to the move, and all with me making progress in my coursework.
I have been blessed by an incredible amount (and variety) of generosity toward me and my family. We have been helped and blessed in numerous ways (I am still floored that people would show up and help move stranger's junk...I am still sorting out the names of those who helped...woohoo...go church family!).
When I was a teenager I read the Emily of New Moon books by L.M. Montgomery (same author as the Anne of Avonlea books but Emily is much more sensible than Anne). Anyway, in one of the books she writes herself a letter on the new year so that she can open it in ten years (or something like that). I started doing that and managed to do it every year for ten years (though once I think I wrote the letter as late as April). It was really cool because when I got to open them up I had ten letters where I could see what my hopes and dreams were, what was on my mind for that year, and what I thought I might be doing.
It was so cool I decided to do it for a second ten years. It is not yet time for me to open up my letters (plus I need to check and see if I even ever got around to writing one last year) but I think I will write one for this year. It certainly was (and promises to be) momentous.
I don't remember a lot from the first 4 months (mostly I remember being pregnant and stressed from taking classes). The last 8 have been pretty incredible with all of the changes. My family has been altered in many ways...from the addition of Jo to the move, and all with me making progress in my coursework.
I have been blessed by an incredible amount (and variety) of generosity toward me and my family. We have been helped and blessed in numerous ways (I am still floored that people would show up and help move stranger's junk...I am still sorting out the names of those who helped...woohoo...go church family!).
When I was a teenager I read the Emily of New Moon books by L.M. Montgomery (same author as the Anne of Avonlea books but Emily is much more sensible than Anne). Anyway, in one of the books she writes herself a letter on the new year so that she can open it in ten years (or something like that). I started doing that and managed to do it every year for ten years (though once I think I wrote the letter as late as April). It was really cool because when I got to open them up I had ten letters where I could see what my hopes and dreams were, what was on my mind for that year, and what I thought I might be doing.
It was so cool I decided to do it for a second ten years. It is not yet time for me to open up my letters (plus I need to check and see if I even ever got around to writing one last year) but I think I will write one for this year. It certainly was (and promises to be) momentous.
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