OK, I don’t have my monthly weigh-in until Tuesday, but since I was dressed up today, I thought it was a good day for a new picture. The last time I was able to wear this dress, Thing Two was in diapers. She’s eight and a half now, lol.
In the car this past Friday evening:
T2: Where’s your devo tonight?
T1: Micah and Marilyn’s house.
T2: Who are they?
T1: You know them, they used to be my teachers. Marilyn’s young and cute, and Micah’s…her husband.
This just cracked me up! She made it sound like being Marilyn’s husband was the only thing she could say about Micah. Poor Micah!
A sweater’s worth of a handpainted merino-silk blend:
Mmmmmalabrigo:
Pictures my friend Jen took on Sunday at Great America. Thing One had a BLAST hanging out with cool, young singles from church all day. I know I certainly would have felt special doing that at her age. THANK YOU, Angela for taking her with you!!!
So, late last week one day, I ended up in this big rant on Facebook about middle school girls, inappropriate dress, laying it all in the lap of the parents, etc., etc. Saturday, I went to a great class at our church conference, listening to various kids who’d grown up in church talk about what it had been like for them as middle-schoolers and high-schoolers, what their parents did that helped and inspired them, what they had most needed, etc. I’m sitting there listening, and this young lady named Courtney was up there, and she started talking about how for a while she led a double life, keeping lots of stuff from her parents, including how she used to change clothes on the way to school. It hit me right between the eyes. I’ve known her parents for 26 years (not well, but I know them). I *KNOW* Penny did not buy Courtney no hootchie-mama clothes, so I knew how stupid what I had said was.
It reminded me of how before you’re married you think you know soooo much about relationships, and then you get married and find out you have no idea what you’re doing or how you think you know soooo much about parenting and think “Oh, I’ll never be one of THOSE parents”, and then you have kids and realize nearly everything you thought you knew was wrong and you aren’t really all that.
So, I’m standing here in my kitchen today w/egg on my face, eating…eating my words from last week. You know what? Self-righteousness doesn’t taste too good…
I took Liesl with me to the Expo last weekend b/c I didn’t have the pattern yet for my next project for Boss Lady. I had a few opportunities to knit, the best one being sitting in the sun near the pool @ the hotel on Sunday after I’d checked out and the Things had headed off to Great America with various friends. Ahhhhh. I did goof up one repeat, but it really doesn’t show to anyone but a knitter, so I left it in. B/c this is an easy project, it’s my take-along one, so I get to work on it when I’m sitting in the car, waiting for the kids at school, etc.
I always mean to take a whole bunch of pictures when we go to conferences b/c we see so many people we don’t see very often, but then I never do. So, here are the few I did take:
My dad and sister recently took a trip to SoCal, and my sister brought me back some pictures.
Here is the house my family lived in from 1973 - 1981. When we bought it, it was still being built, so all the trees and other landscape were planned & planted by my parents. As you can imagine, they were MUCH smaller when we moved away. It took me a couple of moments looking at the picture to recognize the house, lol.
These two pictures are of the school I attended 4th through 8th grade. My sister had other pictures, but they were all of new construction there, not buildings I knew. Ah, memories….
OK, who can name the following people who also attended this school (some quite a long time before I did):
It’s such an unusual occurrence for ALL the moms in our small group at church to make to midweek service that last night we just had to take a picture to document the event:
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