Do Jon and I a favor and pray really hard that the roads will be reasonably clear tomorrow. We’re under a winter storm warning and we’re expecting 4-8 inches of snow. Jon’s installation at both churches is tomorrow and it’s a big to-do. I’d really *like* to have people there (and be able to get there safely.
Author Archives: Jen
Friday Five for Favorites
I’m #1 this week. 🙂
At this moment, what is your favorite…
1. …song?
“La Serinissima” by Loreena McKennitt
2. …food?
sushi!!!!!!!!!!
3. …tv show?
“Joan of Arcadia”
4. …scent?
my cucumber-melon shower gel
5. …quote?
“Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and go well with ketchup.”
Do I Really Need To Explain This?
Mouse in House
Freya caught her first mouse… in the house about 20 minutes ago. Like I’m going back to sleep now!
**UPDATE**
I tried going back to bed after I posted but I couldn’t sleep. I’m proud of Freya for catching the mouse (and VERY unnerved that it was in the house) but I wish it hadn’t been at 6:15 when I had only been able to get to sleep 3 hours earlier.
The story: I had been woken up by some loud growling and mewing. I figured that Freya was being obnoxious and attacking her siblings, so I yelled to Jon to break up the cat fight. He came in holding Freya who had something dangling from her mouth and told me that she had a mouse. My response was “So?” as I thought it was a catnip mouse. Jon then informed me that it was a real mouse, which made me flatten myself against the wall and start screaming. Jon extracated it from Freya’s mouth and tossed it in the garage. We then sprayed the carpet where he had dropped it and washed hands and arms with lots of soap and hot water. It was a pretty good sized mouse too — it would be the equivalent of me trying to swallow a pheasant whole.
God willing, it’s the only mouse we have in the house…
Confirmation Essays and Faith Tests
My Confirmation kids were whiny today. They had just finished finals and had all the memory work and reading to do for Confirmation (which I might have lightened if they had TOLD me), which apparently made it too much. They DID have two fairly lengthy verses; but that was because they hadn’t done their memory verse the previous week.
I also informed them that they had to do faith essays and that we would pick the best three to read in front of the congregation. This got whines of “but I hate reading my own writing” from people. We might choose other people to read them in front of the congregation and I’ll probably make a display board of all the essays. I wish the kids realized how much it means to the parents to have their child’s essays chosen and read and even to see the other kids read essays on their faith to the congregation. Maybe I should give them 1 Peter 3:15 as a memory verse next week?
I gave the kids the study guides for their tests today and we talked about some of the seasons of the Church year. My 2nd year students knew more than they thought they did and it was interesting discussion. We’re going to try and move their class to Sunday and lengthen it by 30 minutes so that we can get through everything. I might also give them some handouts on prayer and how to pray.
I also wish my lesson had gone better tonight. I had musical examples of psalms and stuff but the kids were really distracted. I guess you win some and you lose some…
The State of the Union Address
The State of the Union Drinking Game
Number of hard ciders I would have had to down during Bush’s speech (with 10 tics counting as a full bottle): 17
Number of hard ciders I would have had to down during the Democratic rebuttal: 1.5
Want my thoughts on the SOTU? Click “more”. Realize though that if you click on the “more…”, you are choosing to read what I’ve written and knowing that I am not a fan of Bush, you are willingly choosing to read something criticizing our president.
Iowa Caucus
Kerry took Iowa.
Duuuuuuuuuude…