Monday, August 11, 2008

Tagged

I have been tagged by my friend Jen at Planted by Streams. Jen and I met at my home church in Maryland when we were both pregnant with our oldest. Hannah was Regan's first friend and whenever we go home to MD, we are sure to set up a play date!

1. Where have you traveled? I had about a decade of much travel when I was younger and before we had kids. Internationally I have been to Venezuela, Albania, Bulgaria, Mexico, Thailand, Canada, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania and Iceland. In the US I have been to most east coast and mid-west states, but have only been to California on the west coast.

2. Where would you like to live? My favorite place in America is the coast of Maine. I would love to live in Winter Harbor or some small coastal town like that. Really, anywhere on the coast of New England would be fine with me. I have also always wanted to live in Europe. Somewhere in a small village where I could walk or ride my bike everywhere I needed to go.
When I stop dreaming, I want to live where ever God plants me, because life is always better when I am following my Father.

3. What is your decorating style? Eclectic for sure. I love cottage style, vintage, bright colors... but most important, comfortable and livable!

4. How many times have your been married? Once, for 8.5 years. Phil and I met at University of Maryland 11 years ago this month. We lived in the same building and both went to InterVarsity. We started dating January 1998 but waited to until we had both graduated before we married in February 2000. 8 years and 4 kids later, I can't imagine spending the rest of my life with anyone else!

5. What is your favorite color? I love color. Bright, Pastel, Earth tones... If I had to chose, I would probably say I am most drawn to blues, purples, and brown. But really that seems so limiting, we are big into rainbows in our house :)

6. What is your proudest accomplishment? That is a hard one. So much of my life these days is spent accomplishing small tasks that are immediately undone... A part of my vision statements is "To raise our children to be men and women of Goldy character who are fully equipped to do God's will for their lives in this world." If, by the richness of God's grace, I can do this- it will be my greatest accomplishment.

7. What would we be absolutely shocked to learn about you? I don't have many secrets. I think I lay it all out on the table pretty freely... Here's one that might be surprising, considering the status of our family, but I never really liked kids as a teen/young adult. I didn't really like babysitting or working in the nursery at church. There were a few exceptions, like my nephews and although I am still not crazy about babysitting and working in the nursery, I think the size of our family should tell you I have come around a bit!

Who to tag? How about Deb at As We Walk and my S-I-L, Paula at The Richest Wine.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

home sweet home!

We are back! We had a great trip driving to the "other side of the world" as the children called it :) I took over 200 pictures, so it might take me a bit to pick out a few favorites to highlight the trip. I will try and post again tomorrow, after I dig us out from the all the laundry and sundries from 8 days in the car!

Saturday, August 2, 2008

sad news

We got some sad news today. Phil's grandpa passed away, so we are packing up to drive to Iowa in the morning. Hopefully we can have some fun on our trip. 20 hour (each way) in a mini van with 4 kids, should be interesting! See you all when we get back next week!

Friday, August 1, 2008

snack time

"O, nummy chocwhat"
"Tank-you!"

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

keeping focused

Let us press on to know Him and as surely as the rain in the spring, He will return to us.
Hosea 6:3

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

getting ready

I have been busy getting ready.

Getting ready for a jewelry sale this weekend.Collecting supplies for school.

Cutting out hundreds of timeline figures.
Laminating
Cutting them out again.
We go on vacation next week, so I only have 4 weeks left to get everything ready for school. I am feeling the pressure. I have my lesson plans done for the fall and only have a handful of books left to order, but I have not begun on our spring lesson plans yet. I still need to finish laminating the time line figures, hang the century lines and do a bit more rearranging/organizing before we are ready to start school.
Last month I posted my summer "to-do list". I have gotten a good bit of it done, but still have a way to go with lesson plans. There are a few things that I can see now will not get done before we start school:

finish house # mosaic
type up recipes
Frog/lily pad game

It was a pretty ambitious list, so if I accomplish everything on the list but these three things, I will feel pretty good. Well, I've got lots to do, so I better get back to work!

Monday, July 28, 2008

Muffin Tin Monday

I just realized that I forgot to link back to Sycamore Stirrings for MTM when I posted this this afternoon!Left to Right: Freeze dried strawberries, crackers with strawberry cream cheese, bananas, Trader Joe's animal crackers, Stacey's Pita Chips, starburst, craisins, more pita chips, monterrey jack cheese cubes, bananas, crackers with BP and Famous Chocolate Wafers

Nothing left but banana peals, Starburst wrappers and freeze dried strawberry dust!

"I love muffin tin Monday!"
 

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