Becca is patient, diligent, motivated, and just about fearless–in a good way. 🙂
Happy birthday, Becca, I love you! You are a great big sister!
Guess who’s turning 19 today?!
Becca is nineteen! Nineteen! Can you believe it?
Category Archives: Life
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It has been quite the week. I think we’re all exhausted.
It was good though. The best things are exhausting. I went to Outreach everyday week-day this week for various amounts of time, got my ears pierced, and cried about my first Disney/Pixar movie. Nice list, huh? And we watched Big Hero 6 at Outreach and I almost cried about that too.
I know.
Stories get to me. (The first one was Inside Out, which Spencer, Dad, Becca, and I went to see in the theater on Tuesday–neat movie!)
And we’re having company tomorrow night, and Bright Lights on Tuesday! *nervous laugh* We’ll make it. A spirit of adventure can get you pretty far.
Anyways:
Last week’s quote was from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien. It is from the last chapter, Chapter 10: “The Breaking of the Fellowship”. The ‘he’ in brackets is Frodo.
Ellen and Savannah guessed the right trilogy, as did Juliana who also got Frodo’s name. Great job! Now:
“And be careful how you look on [her], whom he cherishes with the most jealous care; an he take the least alarm in that quarter we are but lost men. It is said he banished his only son from his family for lifting his eyes in the way of affection towards this beauty.”
Happy guessing! 🙂
Monarch
Our first Monarch came out of its chrysalis this morning!
I asked if I could have a turn holding this one.
Isn’t she beautiful???
I forgot how much fun butterflies are! 🙂
Dream jobs. . .
A friend gave us these little cards recently. They have questions on them, and we’ve been reading one question a day at dinner, and then all answering it! (When we remember!)
“What is your dream job?”
Some of these I saw coming, some of them I didn’t!
Becca: An ESL teacher. Oh, she already is. Mission accomplished! :) Spencer: A computer programmer, a chemist, a pastor, or a statesman. Me: An author! :) Lucy: A bridal shop owner. Michael: An "ice cream cooker".
Priceless!
Blessed
We’ve planted dill and parsley in our garden for a long time, to attract Swallowtail butterflies. We kept Swallowtail caterpillars inside in an aquarium when Becca, Spencer, and I were little; and we did again this summer with Michael and Lucy.
Jane the butterfly came out of her chrysalis today and was released today!
She came just in time for Lucy’s Dedication Day!
Lu was dedicated at our new church building this morning. Our building was a bowling alley before we bought it, so it. . . needed some help.
We’ve held meetings there three Sundays now. Back in February we had a worship night there, in the midst of the construction. There are all kinds of things I could say about that, but let’s stay focused (for now).
To tell the truth, I wasn’t really planning on worshiping. I mean, really worshiping. To give you some context, I’m usually an “all-out worshiper”. A hand-lifter.
But I wasn’t really planning on it that night. It just hadn’t been one of “those days”. And the feeling deepened when we got there, and I found that there was dust everywhere that made your nose feel weird, and I was burdened down with a winter coat and purse, since I had nowhere to set them because of aforementioned dust.
We were there to worship Jesus, and I was letting a ‘mood’ and some dust get in my way. Anyways, to make a long story short: I got there not expecting to be passionate, and the music started, and Lucy started singing–and dancing. If she can worship tonight, shouldn’t I be able to?
Yes! Of course! I should anyway!
Lucy has an incredible interest in Jesus, but of course she doesn’t understand everything yet. But she reminded me to worship that night.
Adoption isn’t easy, but I can’t imagine life without it. It is such a blessing! And I’m not trying to say that we should adopt children because they will bless us–far from it. I’m just saying that they will.
I was helping Michael with something at the grocery store once (I think I was pushing him in the stroller or something while Mom shopped), and a lady stopped and said to me, “He’s lucky to have you, you know that?” I’m probably the worst in the world at thinking on my feet, and I just smiled and said something pathetic and uninspiring, like “Yeah.” It was hours, or maybe days later that I realized that the only real answer to that question was:
“I’m just lucky to have him.”
!!!!!!
Sorry, guys, but I don’t think the book review is going to happen today. You can read this on the family blog instead. Seriously, read it!!! Big news!
Actually, I wasn’t that surprised. I think if you’d asked me if we would adopt again, I wouldn’t have been sure; but I think I kinda’ saw it coming. This feels normal. This is just how we operate, I guess! It’s hard, but I love it!
Have a happy, happy Thursday!
Freedom. . .
. . . is worth celebrating!
Happy Father’s Day, Daddy, and to any other dads who read my blog! You have an incredible job, modeling the Father’s love to His children!
Twenty-two years
J ♥ K
Mom and Dad were married when they were twenty-two, and today is their twenty-second anniversary. From now on out, they’ll have been married longer than not!
I love you, Mom and Dad! You are such a blessing to me!
Full
It’s almost lunch-time, and the smell of chocolate chip muffins is wafting through the house–the combination of which has made me incredibly hunger.
It poured gorgeously for most of the morning, and now everything’s soggy and grey.
I just got done playing piano and there are three hymns running through my head.
I’m not in the mental state to write a book review. Just not.
So I’m not. (Deep, huh? 🙂 )
I’m going to try to write a review later today, but right now I’m just not going to risk driving anything out of my head. I had to share right now, just not a review. I’ll try later.
I’m filled up right now, with thoughts and feelings. I’m happy, and I’m grateful; and I’m letting it overflow, in a probably very non-coherent way.
Happy Thursday,
~Hanna
P.S. This is what I did yesterday afternoon. And this is another (semi-embarrassing) Wednesday memory. 🙂