I'm feeling a little lonely for home this week as I realize how much I'm missing this weekend.
1. The annual Convenant fall conference is always a favorite. Eric took me to my first one with Dr. Hywel Jones (a WSC professor) on our second date. We really miss our Covenant family and Pastor Wright's preaching.
2. The annual home varsity volleyball tournament. I haven't missed one in 5 years...and it's the last year I'll have a sibling playing in it. I'm sure my whole family will be too busy with it all weekend to even notice this post, but in case they do--I wish I was there!
3. The Elim Dutch Fest. I've missed a few of these since they started, but there's something about the annual nod to my dutch heritage by pigging out on olie bollen, buying a year's worth of almond paste, and watching the klompenmakers, or whatever they're called. Obviously I'm about a 6th generation dutch girl :-) Maybe I can convince some of the dutchwomen around here (there are so much more of them than I realized) to teach me how to make stroopwafels.
Lastly, fall is my favorite season--and it just doesn't feel a bit like fall. There are no leaves changing color, and no reason to wear a sweater--September is actually the hottest month of the year.
Check out this forecast (that temp is at current time--9pm!)
I know this may feel like gloating--but really it's not. I promise to try to be more appreciative of the warmth, but I would love one day that would at least merit wearing pants! (please send one day of rain, midwest!)
In honor of hot-tember...I made myself a chai milshake (in lieu of a hot chai), and turned up the air conditioner. I can almost feel fall...
This is the one downside to where you live (and it is probably the only one).
ReplyDeleteI am Hot and Dr.Jones-sick.
ReplyDeleteWe've been having unseasonally hot weather here as well. It's making it really hard to get back into university. But soon enough it'll be winter and warm weather will be a figment of the past (at least here!)
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