Sunday Smattering

Very.

Busy.

Week.

Last Sunday morning, I did a tour-de-churches...none of them my own. I began at a church here in town, where I attended the baby dedication for a good friend's baby. (She has asked for complete online anonymity where the baby is concerned, so I can't say any more than that or show you any pictures.) The church had more announcements than ANY OTHER CHURCH I've ever been to in my whole life, and I started to worry I'd not get away in time to make it to church #2, but I did - with literal seconds to spare.

Church #2 was my parents' church, Hazel Dell Friends:

I went to their church for "Book Tour: Stop One" - which you can read about over on the book blog.


Sunday evening I watched the Colts game - and this was my favorite moment of the whole game:

Monday evening was ice cream time! A few days back, the National Quartet Convention was held in Louisville, Kentucky, and that was the next to the last thing Isaac and I had planned to do together. I handled the loss of that none too gracefully, I'm afraid, so I asked Jonathan if we could drown it in some ice cream. He was busy during the actual days of the NQC, so we had to take a rain check. We also watched the Braves/Phillies game, because an IWU alum, Brandon Beachy made his MLB debut during that game. I didn't know Brandon personally, but I knew of him from work, so I wanted to watch his game. Pretty exciting!

Tuesday was manicure night. I traded in Fedora for Wildfire:

Tuesday was also the first episode of the Biggest Loser. Anyone else watching that this season?

Wednesday evening I went to church, and my favorite quote of the night was this: "I asked God, Where should I grow next?" At first I thought I just heard wrong and it was Where should I go next? But then I knew I heard correctly...and I really liked that mindset!

Thursday evening was "stay-home-and-rest-to-try-to-avoid-getting-sick" night. This entire week has been very challenging at work. Much discouragement and many tears on my part (sometimes I take my job far too personally). I'm sure the lack of rest wasn't helping any.

Friday I didn't feel well at all, and of course, it was the first visit day of the year. (Visit days are the days when high school students come to see the campus, and I always attend the academic/athletic fair to represent the office. Therefore, visit days require actually doing my hair and makeup, wearing extra dressy clothes, and being super perky. Tough to do when feeling sick!) So Friday evening, I hunkered down in the fat chair and worked on my next online scrapbook. Got most of it done!

Saturday I prepared for the next game night with my high school buddies! First, I had to go grocery shopping, so I could make dessert....

This time we played a game called Finish Lines (I stunk at that)...followed by a version of dominoes. A very fancy version of dominoes:

I was SO CLOSE to winning one of the games. (Yes, only one. But that's really big for me!) I had my very last domino and I even had a place to play it! And the person who got a turn right before me played her last one and won the game.

Sadness.

But I had much fun at game night! And that concludes another week in Bekahland!