{"id":6009,"date":"2013-12-05T21:58:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T05:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6009"},"modified":"2013-12-05T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T05:59:19","slug":"7-quick-takes-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6009","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Jeans, Snow, and Advent Music."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"7<\/p>\n

<\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Orphans.<\/strong> Do you see these precious children?<\/p>\n

L-R: Brett<\/a> and Iris<\/a>
\n\"Brett\"\"Iris\"<\/p>\n

Brett<\/a> still needs a mama. Iris<\/a> finally has a family committed to her and their dossier has been submitted to her country.<\/p>\n

<\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Because, you know, speaking normal English would defeat the point.<\/strong> My tasoni<\/a> friend sent me this<\/a>. I understood and resonated with all the jargon spoken by the blogger about his autistic son and am shaking my head because my people use a whole different set.<\/p>\n

<\/a>— 3 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let it snow.<\/strong> We might actually get a trace amount of snow in Sacramento on Friday night. It’s down in the 20’s at night right now which is freaking out a lot of people and making me laugh because the 20’s are a walk in the park compared to some of the temps in Minnesota and Montana when I lived there. (It was -25F in Great Falls this morning according to some of my friends there.) The hard thing for me is that our washer\/dryer are in a laundry shed so I’m going to be getting up shortly, putting on fleece, and going out there to sort through clothes and find something for my wee bairn to wear to school tomorrow.<\/p>\n

<\/a>— 4 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeans.<\/strong> Last week, I was getting a pair of my 4 year old jeans from Lands’ End<\/a> out of the dryer to wear them to the airport to pick up Jon and discovered that they had a massive hole in the rear end. (Thankfully, I discovered this BEFORE I wore them.) I went onto the Kohl’s<\/a> website to order more, figuring that I wouldn’t be able to go shopping before Black Friday (when I wanted nothing to do with retail) only to find out that Jon was fine with watching Daniel so I could go after his eye appointment the next day. OK… It was too late to cancel the order on the Kohl’s<\/a> website so I just kept those and went out to shop the next day. End result: 4 pairs of jeans that fit me (after taking them to my seamstress to be hemmed) for less than the cost of 2 pairs of jeans from Lands’ End<\/a>. I still have one pair of 4 year old jeans from Lands’ End<\/a> left so I actually have enough pants for a change.<\/p>\n

<\/a>— 5 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Advent music.<\/strong> My friend Thomas of Fuller Life<\/a> put together an amazing playlist for Advent.<\/p>\n