Small Successes: April 15th

1. Pushed my limited french knowledge to its limits and provided a tour of the monuments of Washington to my visiting aunt and uncle.
2. Met and cuddled my new niece!!
3. Renewed two of my out-of-state licenses.

Bonus in honor of the day: Paid my taxes!!

Giving thanks this Thursday:

time with family

cuddle new babies which grow and enhance my family

watching Elisabeth participate in her first egg hunt

safe travel

warm sunny days with gentle breezes

that we are Easter people, loved and forgiven

Please visit Faith and Family Live and celebrate your small success.

Ten on Tuesday: travel edition

1. What book, movie or song has made you want to travel to a particular place? (eg. I went to Prince Edward Island because I was such a Anne of Green Gables fan)

Me Too!! Spent our honeymoon there.

2. Aside from your significant other, who would you want to take with you on a dream trip?

My sisters

3. Where would said dream trip be to?

Outer Banks, where we would miss our kids but also laugh and talk and drink.

4. If you were hosting guests or providing tips, what three things would you show visitors to your hometown? (be it where you live now or where you grew up)

a)Constitution Center b) Valley Forge c) Longwood Gardens (where it is currently dogwood season)

5. If you had a long weekend ahead of you, where you head – beach, city or country/mountains?

Beach, though I am long overdue for a trip to the mountains.

6. Do you have a passport? If so, did you get it for a particular trip or just to have, in case?

Yes, renewed in order to go to a cousin's wedding in Belgium

7. Are there any travel souvenirs you collect? If not, is there something else you collect?

Magnets

8. If you could name a paint colour, what colour would it be and what would you call it?

Redish~purple which I would call Gloaming

9. If you were heading away for a weekend citybreak solo, where would you go? (forget about practicality here and flight times, assume you can get to any city in the world for the weekend)

Dublin

10. Is there a song or a smell or something that you strongly associate with a particular holiday/place/time, such that it always takes you back?

Away in the Manger, my first Christmas pageant

Please visit Roots and Rings and thank your lovely host, Chelsea and offer your own take on these questions

Small Successes: April 8th

1. Arranged childcare so was able to attend and acolyte (not sure if it serves as a verb) Easter Vigil.
2. Hosted twenty or so choir/church friends for Easter dinner.
3. Announced the anticipated coming of our second little one.

Giving thanks for:

warm days and soft breezes

tulips in the garden

snuggly toddler

good check-ups signifying health little ones

visiting family

Please visit Faith and Family Live and celebrate your own small successes.

Promotion!

After much consideration and giving her application due consideration keeping in mind her wonderful qualifications and potential for growth in the future, we have decided to grant the title of BIG SISTER to Elisabeth with fully rights, privileges, and responsibility taking effect in

Mid September.

Am currently 17 weeks and happy to report that the queasiness of the first trimester have passed and am awaiting (as is my neglected house) the energy burst of the second trimester.

Ten on Tuesday: April 6th

1. If you could travel back in time, would you? What decade would you visit?

Provided I can return to my time and home, yes I would enjoy time travel~perhaps 1950s

2. What was your best Halloween costume? (fun to make? most creative?)

My dad helped me create a jail/prisoner costume.

3. Do you like your name? If you weren’t called by your name, what would you want to be called?

Yes, I like my name ~ not sure what else I would like to be called.

4. In the past year, what is the BEST recipe you made. Please share it!

Fruited Chicken with Barley

5. Look around – what is the nearest object or picture hanging on the wall?

Lighthouse print

6. What was the last movie you saw in a theater? Would you recommend it?

Julie/Julia

7. Did you go to summer camp? Will you/do you send your kids to camp?

Attend nature day camp and gymnastic camp. Would consider camp if it was something my kids were interested.

8. What kind of ringtone do you have?

Nothing special

9. Where is the farthest away from home you have ever been?

Hawaii or Belgium, not sure which farther technically.

10. Has anyone ever written a song or a poem for or about you?

Not that I know of...

Please visit Roots and Rings to enjoy others answers to these questions and thank our host, Chelsea

Happy Easter!!

Angels, roll the rock away;
Death, yield up thy mighty prey:
See, He rises from the tomb,
Glowing with immortal bloom. ~Thomas Scott, "Easter Angels"

Happy Easter to you and yours!!

For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer

Holy Thursday: Lord's Supper

In Remembrance
(Ragan Courtney and Buryl Red)

In remembrance of Me eat this bread
In remembrance of Me drink this wine
In remembrance of Me pray for the time
When God's own will is done

In remembrance of me heal the sick
In remembrance of me feed the poor
In remembrance of me open the door
And let your brother in, let him in

Take eat and be comforted
Drink and remember too
That this is my body and precious blood
Shed for you, shed for you

In remembrance of me always love
In remembrance of me don't look above
But in your heart, in your heart
Look in your heart for God

Do this in remembrance of Me
Do this in remembrance of Me
In remembrance of Me

Happy Trid!