Far Back Friday – The Days of Plaid & Music.

FAR BACK FRIDAY!  Enjoy.

~Thanks!

My husband (left) and brother-in-law, late 1970s: rocking the plaid at violin lessons.

Minding the Gap: Happy Birthday, Shel Silverstein.

Happy Birthday, Shel Silverstein:
The man who taught children to love poetry.

September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999

This reminds me of the London Underground: “Mind the gap!”

Busy Summer

In addition to various travel I’ve already done this summer and more travel soon to visit my family in Ohio, I am very busy at this point with my church’s Bible school. 

I’m not a preachy religious person.  I admire and respect other faiths and belief systems.  I don’t proselytize.  I just have many, many fond memories of growing closer to my God through Bible school and Sunday school and youth group as I was growing up and going through my formative years.  One week spent in summer Bible school is one week not spent in front of a screen, playing video games, texting, listening to deafness-inducing music in one’s earbuds, or what-have-you.  I enjoy leading story time.  It takes me back to my dramatic roots.  And Bible stories are helpful to a full Western civilization education.

So I’ve been busy decorating our church, preparing my story time room, and getting things ready for next week’s Bible school.

I hope that you, too, have ways to express yourself and your faith this summer – ways to volunteer to help out where needed – ways to minister to others, young and old – ways to make a difference in others’ lives, however you choose to do so – whether sacred or secular.

Can I get an Amen?

~Thanks!

Pic to cool you down #2

It’s been a long day, and I’m posting rather late (11:30 p.m.)…..  But I decided I had to post another cool picture to cool all of you down on a warm summer evening.  So here it is:

This is a picture of my older daughter a few years ago, taken at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.  Between the blue of her shirt, the blue of the sculpture around her, and the blue of her eyes, you just can’t get a cooler picture.  It’s like a tall, icy glass of water, isn’t it?

~Thanks!

Small doses of kids

I had a BUNCH of kids at my house all day on Saturday.  We watched all five Marvel superhero movies (prequels to….) and then went to The Avengers in 3-D at the theater Saturday night.

Here they are in my living room:

(With the hubby in the background, standing tall like a warden.)

 

And then this morning, after I dropped the girls off for school, I saw a mama duck and these little darlings hurrying to scamper away from me as I took their picture:

Don’t you just love a big pack of  kids?

At least in small (short) doses? 

Thanks!