I was going to post pictures, honest...

But blogger isn't working well tonight. So instead of a bunch of pictures, worth a thousand words each, I'll just be verbose. Just kidding. Maybe.

Things to show you:

1.) I made a delightful-sounding recipe from Sunset magazine. I'm not sure how I got on their send-me-ten-free-sample-issues mailing list, as it's a magazine for the west coast, i.e. California, New Mexico, etc. The recipe sounded all fall-y and perfect to infuse a bit of autumn, if only olfactorily, into our home. Chocolate Gingersnaps. Mmmm. The dough smelled great, the cookies smelled great, with their molasses, ginger, cocoa, and chocolate chips... but the cookies were awful. So disappointing. Picture to come.

2.) My nineteen aprons are finished even further, as I couldn't help myself from sewing a pocket onto each one last Saturday. Pictures to come.

3.) My grandparents sent me a sweet package full of three vintage aprons! They are too cute for words. One is brown and white gingham with barnyard animals printed on it, one is yellow chintz, maybe?, with a big rooster appliqued on it, and the third is a black number with smocking across the front and red and green rick-rack. Very fun. Can't wait to show you.

4.) I've made a bunch of pencil pouches for the show. I like them. Pictures to come.

5.) My neck and back are angry with me. Is there such a thing as "Sewer's Crick-In-The-Neck"? It started with the 19 aprons and has lasted all week, only getting worse.

6.) Last night was the last night of our Theophostic class. We got into small groups with a facilitator and did some demonstrations. I volunteered to go as I have a phobia of heights, and the teacher mentioned a while ago that a fear of heights can be addressed. (Actually, any time we don't feel the peace of Christ, we are feeling an emotion based upon a lie. Once we uncover the root of that lie, usually in a memory pre-age-12, and ask Jesus to tell us his truth about it, we can be free of that un-peaceful feeling.) So I did it, and it was really cool. It's a bit too personal to share on the blog, so if you want details you can email me personally. I'll tell you this-- I had been thinking for a long time about getting ministry for this, and I thought I had figured out the memory where it stemmed from. During the session, however, my mind immediately jumped back about 6 years prior to a memory I haven't thought of for years, and that was the memory I needed to deal with. I'm not totally "cured" of my fear of heights, but I didn't want to throw up when I walked on the balcony today at school. I'd say I'm about 75% better. Makes me want more, more, more! Small groups start in January and Brad and I will be signing up. Those groups will be lots of hands on as we watch and learn how to facilitate. This stuff is just so cool. It's like Vineyard prayer ministry, but more directed. Instead of following wherever the stream of consciousness takes you (not that there's anything wrong with that at all), this is very to-and-from-- go to the memory, explore it a bit, exchange lie for truth, re-explore the memory to see if peace has replaced pain, and come back to now. I could go on and on, and actually I did. So there you have it.

I think that's it for now.

Oh, we might have visitors coming in May. I'm super excited about that. My mom and sister for Thanksgiving, Sissy again for Christmas, and now maybe some friends in May. Oh, joy!

Pictures to come.