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Sunday, 10 January 2010

  • Invitation!

    Tonight we received an invitation to go ice skating and share Stromboli with another family!  What a delight!  It feels so good to be asked to do something when at times it feels like I'm the one who does all the inviting and organizing!

    However, knowing the joy I feel from being invited makes me want to pass it on to others...

    Shenk Christmas 013 The tree has come down...but I love this picture of Abby and Sophie watching it snow!

     

Sunday, 03 January 2010

  • I'm Back!

     My sister said to me recently...Do you know you haven't changed your status since you "ran away" for the day.....well...I decided that it is time to update!  Since that day in July, I was immersed in getting ready to send our son to college and I got a new job which has taken a lot of my time.  I am employed at our local Library in the children's section.  I decided that this job was a great fit for me since it integrated two passions of mine...children and books!  As one knows...a new job is fun and exciting but can be stressful.  I am definitely feeling the learning curve at 45.  However, I am really learning a lot about technology...I'm actually stretching myself and learning more than I would be if I were in my past teaching job...so that is a good thing.  I'm still subbing on my days off....don't want to totally detach myself from the world of education  :) 

    Below are some pictures from the past five months....hope you all are well out there in xanga land!

    Christmas Eve 09 735 Christmas with the family.

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    Pioneer woman For my birthday...Fred took me to meet The Pioneer Woman at a book signing in West Chester.  If you have never been to her site...you must look her up!Google...The Pioneer woman cooks.....before she came to the book signing...she was at QVC.  They sold 4,000 of her cookbooks in less than 5 minutes.

     

Monday, 20 July 2009

  • Running Away !!!

     

    Well, tomorrow I am running away (with my family's permission of course!)   Sometimes in the busyness of life...I just need to get away...by myself for more than and hour or two.   I've picked somewhere that will take less than two hours to get to and has water, seafood, a place to read, good speakers that give awesome talks and thrift shopping and antiquing......it is supposed to rain...but that doesn't even matter to me......more tomorrow or when I return......Does the picture give you a hint as to where I am going?

    This is a quote from a movie I saw a while back.  I wrote down the quote and forget which movie it came from...anyway....here it is!

     "My father used to say, "Mind the Gap."  It's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is!"

Wednesday, 01 July 2009

  • A Perfect Day at the Beach

    We had a perfect day at the Beach.  Our choice location was Indian River in DE.  The kite surfers were out and they were fun to watch.  We were also close to a marina and could walk down to see the boats come in.  It was a great day for fishing and a lot of fishermen were catching sea bass and we even saw a beautiful flounder being reeled in!  It was a little windy in the afternoon but we all decided that we would take wind over rain any day!

    beach 079 Lala, Abby and my sister Bev.

    beach 085 Yes, I proved that I still had it in me to ride the waves....even though ....little did I know within a matter of minutes I'd be eating sand with that stupid boogy board smashing me in the face!  I guess it was all worth it!  It had been a long time since I had jumped waves with my daughter!

    Breakfast at Perkins and stopping for dinner at Bob Evans helped to break up the long drive.

    A great day for making memories!

     

     

     

     

Monday, 29 June 2009

  • Spider Bite!

    Someday our dog will learn not to play with Spiders.  This is what happens when you try to eat one!

    First the swelling...

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    Then the hives

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    This was not a fun experience as the vet put her on prednisone and it made her super hyper and hungry ALL the time!

    Summer vacation has been going fast!  Tomorrow we are going on a quick day trip to the beach.  It's about a three hour drive...so it's a lot of driving for one day....but it should still be fun.  The weather has been absolutely beautiful today.  I count it as an extra special blessing!

     

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    • Name: Marilyn
    • Birthday: 12/27/1964
    • Gender: Female
    • Member Since: 6/11/2007

About Me

  • I am a mother of two, teach part time, wife to a dear husband and I love the Lord with all my heart! We are Mennonites and God Followers!