NEW LEAF

=throw away deodorant when it's so low it starts to hurt to put it on.



(old leaf)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, kiddo!

Mama
Endearing laugher
Loyal
Athlete
Nice to nerds
Industrious homemaker
Ease (as in, puts you at it)

Wacky&wondrous

High school hippie
A+ baker
Runner
Reader
Interested in many things
Superstar

thy breath be rude!!

happy first snow boston

giveaway update--Aims

(yes, it is made with authentic packing string from Mike's Pastry shop in the North End, thank you for asking)

the Good Earth

toms and herberts fresh from our garden.

and...check this out

giveaway update--jeff (again..)

Okay I already posted this giveaway, but the pics I got back from jeff et al were too wondrous to keep to myself. best day ever!

hope

this morning I cut the heads and tails off my celery and washed what was left and the green smell on my hands was fresh and wonderful. Then I smeared them with my favorite peanut butter ever--which is the fresh made-in-front-of-your-eyes kind from Whole Foods, made with honey roasted peanuts, that is grainy and crystally crunchy from the sugar. Then I got out the big marshmallows (because we don't have any little ones right now) and got out the kitchen shears and clipped the marshmellows into little bite sizes and laid them on the logs. I love using scissors in the kitchen and cutting mellows is the second best thing I love to do with them (second only to cutting long lengths of kimchi). Last but not least I put raisins in between the marshmellows and saran wrapped the bundle of celeries and packed them into my and leslie's lunch sack.
and now that lunch sack is waiting for me in the nutrition department refrigerator. and that's how I know it's going to be a good day.

Signs of the times

sometimes I enjoy cheesy staged pictures of cute animals.
sometimes I get the urge to forward them on to you.



(I have resisted, so far...)

giveaway update--Jenny, Gma, and tang

(and these guys didn't even sign up...)

giveaway update--Jeff

happy birthday jeffy-pie

Happy Birthday old Beck,
I love you the heck.

More holiness give me, more strivings within.
More patience in suffering, more sorrow for sin.
More faith in my Savior, more sense of His care.
More joy in His service, more purpose in prayer.

More gratitude give me, more trust in the Lord.
More zeal for His glory, more hope in His Word.
More tears for His sorrows, more pain at His grief.
More meekness in trial, more praise for relief.

More purity give me, more strength to o'ercome,
More freedom from earth-stains, more longings for home.
More fit for the kingdom, more used would be,
More blessed and holy, more, Savior, like Thee.

"I Can See Obama Right Now!"

(quoted from a little girl looking out from the top of the lincoln memorial)


my work sent me to DC. yahoo.

my bob's getting hitched

Congratulations Andrew and Ashley. A blessing on both your houses!!

WORK

yes, that is the kraken on my desktop

Disappointment

complete.utter.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY E

you great goose!

I had a vision

flying home from california.
I looked out the window to the sea . I saw one wave form out of the water. Pick itself up into a violent, pointed peak. then resolve itself back
into flat ocean.
my eyes opened and I saw a million waves. form and rage and die.
the sea looked to me like a battle ground. like passion.
the plane lifted.
out my window
the waves lost something
the higher I went.
they grew squatter.
and less menacing.
Rounded hills.
to ripples.
to nothing.
until the ocean turned to smooth blue glass.
and I thought about my prayers. and passions.
and God, looking down. from his jet plane in the sky.

giveaway update--Moflo

Dear Boston,

Thank you for the day of warmth and sunshine yesterday.
it was nice and made me feel like it's summertime, rather than one long, eternal, dark and bitter winter.
let's do it again sometime.
love, erin