A Week In Pictures 4

Sunday

Em, my lovely niece, made some delicious crème brulee for Father's Day.

Monday

Can't wait for Dad's grapes to ripen.

I just love Dad's beautiful roses.

Tuesday

I just finished Jane Eyre for the umpteenth time. It's a favorite.

 

Wednesday

Jess celebrates her pre-birthday with a cake and a few friend.

Thursday

Jess's official birthday. She records the day.

Friday

Kelsey leaves for her first ride on her longboard.

Saturday

I knit a cute cupcake hat for a friend. It's from "Itty Bitty Hats" by Susan B. Anderson.

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Sunday

I'm trying to catch up on my reading, but writer's keep writing new, interesting books faster than I can read.

 

Monday

VBS started today. Here's our VBS princess!
 

Tuesday

Kelsey and I took Jaena to IWU to register for classes. Like usual, Jaena wouldn't let me take a picture of her. So here's one of Kelsey instead. She sat in the McConn Coffee Shop area and read her book all day. Jaena's registered for voice lessons, piano class, and music theory among other classes. She's excited about spending her days studying music. You can tell by how big Kelsey is smiling, right?

 

Wednesday

We stopped by Ivanhoe's, in Upland, IN, on the way home for shakes and sundaes. Delicious!

 

Thursday

 Porch-time with Jen and Jody. I forgot to take a picture. So here's a picture of my lovely porch instead.

 

Friday

I finished "Flight Behavior" by Karen Kingsolver. It's well written, but I don't agree with her on everything. I think she's the only writer that could make me wade through so much science to know the end of the story though.

 

Saturday

 I finished my Something Red sweater. I love how it turned out, but it needs a special button. I haven't found the perfect one yet.

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Sunday

 

Jaena, Dad, and sisters.

Jaena and I pose.

Pappy and Jaena

Jaena graduated. I can't stand it! Turn back the clock! NOW people!!

 

 

Tuesday

 

Jaena surprised Jess with a wristband that got her in to the Meet and Greet for "Little Mix", her favorite girl band from London. She was so excited, she was speechless!

 

 

Wednesday

 

I spent some time checking on my beautiful roses.

 

 

Thursday

 

 Best time of the week. Lunch journaling group with my girls.

 

Friday

I'm working on my "Something Red" sweater in blue.

 

Saturday

We spent the day hiking at Turkey Run State Park.

 

Summer Journaling and Reading

My daughters have made this English/Writing major momma proud.

One of the first purchases of the summer for each of them was a new journal. At one point I was even standing in the bookstore texting pictures of journals because Jess needed one "now" and didn't want to wait until she could get to the store herself.

It's interesting that each of them journals differently. Jess writes everyday and tapes pictures and mementoes into her journal. Already she needs a rubber band to keep it shut. Kelsey journals important events she wants to always remember. Jaena purchased a journal with staff lines for songs she writes.

Me: I have a little of everything in my journal. My devotions, my prayer requests, meeting notes, quotes I want to remember, books I've read this year, knitting projects completed this year, books I want to read, what I'm grateful for, sermon notes, doodling and even more. It goes with me EVERYWHERE.

The girls and I stopped by the Half Off Bookstore in Indy this week and spent way too much time and money there. Kelsey decided she spends more money on books than clothes. That's saying a lot for a teenage girl! One purchase was "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austin. And Jess asked for a particular book for her birthday this week, "100 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know" by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries.

I just finished "The Supremes at Earl's All You Can Eat" by Edward Kelsey Moore. I'm starting a book of short stories, "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" by Karen Russell. This will be the 30th book I've read so far this year.

It's going to be a good summer of reading and writing at my house. I'll try to catch a few pictures of journaling and reading in action.

A Week in Pictures

Saturday

 

 My oldest celebrates graduating from high school.

Where did my baby go?

 

 

Sunday

 

 Poor Jess, this is what she looks like when awakened by a camera flash.

 

 

Monday

Leftover open house cake turned into birthday cake. (I won't quit my day job to become a cake decorator!)

 

Dad turned 86 on Friday.

Mom turned 85 and Jaena turned 19 on Monday.

My brother, Kevin, has a birthday tomorrow.

 

 

Tuesday

My baby win the award for raising her Lexile level (improving her reading ability) the most this year!

Her hard work paid off!

 

 

Wednesday

Napping on the new couch.

 

 

Thursday

Jess graduated from 8th grade. She is officially a high-school student. Notice my camera skills? Jess is fuzzy, fellow student, Briley looks better, and the sign behind them looks great!

Reading "Tigers in Red Weather", by Liza Klaussmann. She happens to be the great-great-great-granddaughter of Herman Melville. You know, "Moby Dick", "Typee"? I'm envious.

 

 

 While waiting for a friend to get off work for lunch I took a few pictures of the tree above my car. I love my sunroof nearly as much as I love trees.

 

I also did a little knitting while waiting. This is my WIP, Something Red sweater, by Knit and Tonic. I know, it's not red. It happens to be the forth blue sweater I've knit. I must branch out and try another color.

 

 

Friday

 



We visited Chizzy's, in Galveston, IN. The ice cream was delicious! Orange-pineapple. Yum!!