Here's what's got my thankful up this week:
Halloween & Costumes
I love the costume planning and execution. I love the parties. I love the food. I love coming to work in a costume and finding excuses to make deliveries around campus to show off my costume. I love that people know enough now to stop by my office to see what I've come up with this year.
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| Party hostess Mary Poppins and myself as the U.S. Quarter. |
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| My co-workers |
I've gone through periods in recent years when I've pulled away from my church community and even "shopped around" for a new church (mainly because I live 30 minutes away from church and that drive started to get to me). I realized a few months ago that this was silly. Good Shepherd is my church home, and I am an important part of the community there. I think what I've been learning is that church is what you make of it. If you just attend regular service and don't get involved in the ministries, you're missing out on so muc,h and it's no one's fault but your own. I've rededicated myself to attendance and finding new avenues of service at my church.
My Half-Birthday!
It may seem silly, but half birthdays are fun too. Today is mine. Feel free to leave half birthday well wishes in the comments or even send presents! I'm coolio with that.
Halloween Episodes of My Favorite TV Shows
These episodes always have either excellently crafted or extremely clever costumes, which is what Halloween must be like when you have a full writing staff and costume designers at your beck and call. There were a lot of good ones this, year, but I think Nick from the New Girl's Bee Arthur was genius.
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This week I booked a vacation with my sister and her family of five to go visit Mickey Mouse and all his friends in January. I can't wait to experience Disney with my nieces and nephew!
Lots of great things happening this week. What are you thankful for?
1. I'm thankful that Thankful Thursdays are back.
ReplyDelete2. I'm thankful for your whole paragraph on church. It sums up so much of what I think.
3. I HAVEN'T SEEN THE HALLOWEEN NEW GIRL YET! Can you believe it? It's on my to-do list like now!
Happy Half Birthday to you! I, of course, celebrated my half birthday exactly one week ago. I just got caught up on several of your most recent blog posts and enjoyed them! So, I, am thankful for my dear cousin Jill who I wish lived closer so that I could experience her hilarity more often.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for 1) mountain vacations 2) best friends 3) sweaters and socks 4) toothbrushes 5) fiction books and characters 7) hats 8) my good job 8) my good husband and 9) half birthdays!
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