Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for late night talks with Seth and Crystal. It seems like some of our best conversations have happened at mumble-thirty or later. Most of the time I’m stupid tired the next day, but I’m usually emotionally settled and back on track to do what I’m here for.
Thank you, Seth and [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Nov 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
This weekend didn’t go quite the way I was expecting. We had a busy couple of days scheduled with Night of the Burning Plum and family coming in from out of town. Crystal and I were gearing up for stashing six more people someplace in this house and then feeding them repeatedly. The Lansberrys were [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for family. For my sister and her family coming to visit even through all the changes of plans. And for the Night of the Burning Plum which we are celebrating tonight. Family and friends and flaming plum brandy. What more could you want?
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Projects on Nov 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for birthday parties, which is a good thing because they can be a snootful of work. Sometimes when we’re gearing up for a party I start wishing it was just over. I keep thinking that there’s just too much work and there’ll be too many people and I just don’t feel [...]
Posted in Around Town, Friends & Family, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Raquel on Oct 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Yesterday was a crazy day. Due to circumstances beyond our control, which partly just means it didn’t get realized until too late, Go Play Peoria and the Reformation Day Faire were on the same day. So naturally we proceeded to devolop a complicated plan involving two major events, two vehicles, and nine [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Poems and Stories, Raquel on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Since Gabrielle wrote a post about Mouse Guard…
I am now going to inflict on all of you a nifty thing I discovered about the game that most of you will really not care about.
So, in this game, I am playing the healer, Rosie. This is amusing, simply because I’m pretty much playing [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Sep 27th, 2009 3 Comments »
I’m sitting down to write a blog post, simply because it’s Sunday afternoon, and I’ve just remembered how much I like having friends.
I’ve been having a difficult time with life lately–refer to my last blog post. This morning during church I cried my way through a (very helpful) sermon on assurance, once again [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Life, Children and Dishes, Quotes, Raquel on Sep 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
This morning started well. The day didn’t look so hard, and even Theresa being gone with three of the older children all afternoon, there should be plenty of time for me to work on homework for my medical terminology class. I had visions of finding time to bake bread, and definitely to continue my [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Projects on Sep 1st, 2009 No Comments »
I was noticing that while I was in Erie I charted my visit in terms of the food we ate. We made pastaleos, Dad took me to lunch, my sisters and I pigged out at Perkins while I accidentally made really loud vacuum noises, Elizabeth and I made dragon eggs.
It’s that last bit that [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Last Tuesday in honor of my father being in town we had some extra people over for our weekly community dinner. Some of those extras were the Evans family. Before dinner Colton and I were looking out the back door and talking about our garden. He was impressed at how much we were able to [...]