Taking The Challenge: ~* Week in Review

WEEK IN REVIEW

(The purpose of this meme is to record a weekly memoir of your life to look back on for your own personal reflection/enjoyment and for your children/grandchildren to enjoy and learn from your experiences. Don't you wish your parents/grandparents had left something like this for you?? I do!! Feel free to answer all or any...whatever you want to share and record, and feel free to add any subject I may have overlooked.

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Week's Weather 102, 92 and very breezy, 89 (ahhh, much better!), 82 (loving it!),91, 102, 94

Sunday Sermon I Cor. 4:1-5 How the ministry should be viewed: lowest of servants; the importance of not judging yet being responsible to help our brothers and sisters and, when necessary, confront sin.

Life lessons the importance of overcoming fear and not being a coward

Entertainment-wise: keep quick appetizers on hand (ie TGIF's frozen artichoke/spinach dip and tortilla chips) for unexpected guests. Make up a batch of iced tea (warm weather) as soon as you know they are coming. Bring out the wii if conversation lags??? (this was an afterthought to the visit, so not sure if it would work, but would sure try it out next time)

Favorite Meal(s) BBQ beef sandwiches, make-your-own chef salads,chicken pasta primavera

Treasured Moment(s) sharing lunch and dinner times with my honey and guys, talking with my mom and my daughter on the phone.

Simple Pleasures watching old I Love Lucy's with the guys, the smells of chocolate chip cookies and banana muffins baking,

Talked with my mom on the phone, met one of my husband's home office co-workers, talked with our daughter on the phone

Impacting News

National

Local CA firefighters making headway against the wildfires

Personal I've been approved for a Pell Grant!

Things I Read Sadly, nothing worth recommending :(

Movies/Videos We Watched: I Love Lucy (ILL trivia: Did you know that Little Ricky {Keith Thibodeaux} went on to become a Christian, played with the 70's Christian Rock Band David and the Giants, and is now married and works with his wife in a Christian Ballet Company - Ballet Magnificat?); Planet Earth (disc 2); I watched: Bella and The Inheritance (Why do period pieces costumes so often look like ads for Frederick's of Hollywood?!)

Interesting Internet Wikipedia continues to impress me!

Places We Went Borders, Barnes & Nobles, college

Budget Savers/Busters Gas continues to be a buster, but thankfully it's gone down some. Groceries are sure going up and up and up, though, and their prices don't go back down when the gas does!

Blessings our family; qualifying for the Pell Grant Award

Challenges new knitting pattern (washcloth) I keep losing my stitch count and having to start over...While the actual main two stitches seemed easier to learn than crochet, the knitting patterns seem more difficult to me crochet patterns....but, I'm going to keep at it.

Accomplishments final college financial aid paperwork turned in; baby step in entertaining

Family Happenings Not much new...just gearing up for the new school year.

Tried Something New Chicken Pasta Primavera recipe, knew knitting pattern

Photos

First pear of the season!

Remember this?

I just couldn't stand the closed curtains...(too claustrophobic feeling), even though this window overlooks the street (no privacy). So I gave these the same treatment I'd given the family room curtains.

You can see a bit of the second window in the first picture, so I went ahead and included the second window here:

Much better, don't you think?

AND...if I can get some strong-arm help, I think I'm going to go ahead and hang that mirror and picture...if we move, we move. At this point, I don't think it would happen before my first semester is completed if it happens at all.