Snow and Legos....Perfection?

It snowed last night and a bit stuck until this morning. Drew was thrilled. Another thrilling thing for him has been Legos. He brought some of his own and the Grahams have a big box that he has been rummaging through like a treasure chest. Then today, JC brought a big box out to the barn for him to play with while I worked.
When waiting for JC to get back with them, he looked at me with big eyes and said "Snow and Legos! I can only think of one other thing that would make this day perfect."

"What's that?"

"If the Lord would come back!"

The Equation

Not putting your shoes on all the way+ jumping over mud to get into the car+ a heavy backpack= falling backwards+ lots of laughter

Returning

On my return back to the States, my younger brother met me in Atlanta to go back to Detroit with me. My mom brought him through security...and also two of my sisters. I have no idea how she managed to bring three people without boarding passes through security, but I was grateful to be bombarded with hugs. My dad was also in the Atlanta airport at that time, but he was just getting off the plain when we had to board, so we missed him by a few minutes. I have not seen any of them since Christmas, so it was great to have a mini reunion at the gate.
Drew is pretty picky about when he gets his picture taken, but he has humored me a few times. Such a great brother.
But this is why I really love having him around....
...to haul the luggage! ;)

Ciao

I am leaving for the airport in a few minutes....
Hopefully it will not be another huge adventure on the autobahn, because, well, I have a plane to catch this time. :)
Pretty soon Germany will just be a memory....


I am flying to Atlanta. My younger brother will be meeting me there to come back to Michigan for a bit of a stay. Yup. Pretty excited.

Good Bye

So any time people say goodbye here, the either say "ciao" or "cheers". I thought it was pretty weird that they said "cheers" but I faithfully said it any time that someone said it to me.

You guessed it. The word is not cheer, but "tchuß" and apparently pronounced completely different than "cheers".

And yes, that was a pretty embarrassing discovery.

But it has brought laughter into several lives, so that makes it worth it.

You mean I am not perfect?

"He's changing me, my precious Jesus
I'm not the same person that I used to be.
Sometimes it's a slow going,
But there's a knowing,
That someday, perfect I will be...

Little by little bit everyday,
Little by little bit every way,
My Jesus is changing me..."


There are moments in my life where I am more aware that I need a whole lot of changing. Yeah. Those moments are never fun.

I live near Mo-town...

...but I went to a car show in Germany. I mean, I love my ford, but who could pass up looking at some European beauties?

There where tractors, and bugs, and Z4s, but my personal favorite was the pimped out VW van.


For those of you who took the TV class with me, I was itching to make my own addition of Auto Focus. :)


Later that afternoon, I went to a real game of football. I have discoverd that it can be a man's sport and is not just reserved for preps whose dads are doctors or lawyers. (Sorry to all you soccer players, including my brother!)

The game was a prety firery and ended up as a tie...which to any competitve person is just as bad as losing, becasue, well, you just did not win.

Spring

Happy first day of spring. My favorite time of year is when the seasons change. I guess that means I have four favorite times of year.

Cleaning, anyone?


"Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it."

"Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy."

"I'm not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on."

"Housework, if it is done right, can kill you."

And my personal favorite...

"Cleanliness is next to godliness."

My thoughts: I love get a thrill out of cleaning and like the motto, "A place for everything, and everything in its place." My brother has said that if cleaning was a soiritual gift, it would be mine. But...I have learned that people last forever, things will burn. I never want to put one in the place that the other one should be. So, when it comes to choosing people or cleaning, I gadly choose people. And sometimes that means cleaning to show that I care. ;)

Yeah, I am still a neat freak, but reforming. :)

Hope you were able to spend your Saturday enjoying the sunshine and investing in people.