What? My friend had been telling me we needed to go to the Nashville area this past weekend to hear Brian McLaren ourselves! But I was just too worn out. I’m glad you were able to meet him. Now that I’ve read two of his books, I definitely want to read even more.

I still haven’t watched the results show of SYTYCD! Hopefully tonight. Maybe I’m subliminally putting it off because I don’t want this season to end. 🙂

Thanks, Darlene. Happy Anniversary to you and your hubs too (a few months late)! Unfortunately Jeff and I were both out of town (different towns) on our actual anniversary which was a bummer this year. But I had packed a card in his suitcase and he left me one in the freezer. 🙂 With a Hershey’s candy bar, so all was well. I got it (and ate it, the candy bar, that is) when I got home last night.

Your LOST book club challenge is awesome. I just visited your blog to check it out. You had some great titles there! Yes, you should definitely have a big celebration for it. So cool.

Have fun in Nashville getting to love on your friends. I’m sure they’ll appreciate every second of it!

Those “first days” are over in my family too. My baby daughter is in her senior year at college, so even that last first day is now over.

It sounds like you are showing up for what God is trying to do. It definitely requires faith. Good for you in submitting. I’ve been wanting to run from something too but he won’t let me. I know he’s right, but it’s taken a lot out of me this week. I have to trust that miracle of grace that he will refill me.

You’ve got quite a spread there, Jennifer. Keeps you young yet mature. 🙂 I highly recommend Brene’s book. It was SO good. I gleaned a lot of points from it from stuff I’m actually going through right now, so it was timely reading.

I have been making room for God also. I felt i wasn’t giving his the room to do his thing for me and every time he tried fear would set in and i would run away, but i am learning faith and the miracle of grace.

lovely video, you haven’t changed a bit.

Grinning with you over that cartoon. I have a son heading off to his second year of college and my youngest starts kindergarten this year. I can relate to both sentiments.

Oooh, I have been wanting to read Brene Brown’s stuff. Thanks fro the reminder. I’ll have to pull up her Ted talks too.

Have a great week,
Jennifer Dougan
http://www.jenniferdougan.com

My husband doesn’t like SYTYCD either. 😉 My daughter got me hooked on it before she moved out. Now that she’s gone, I’m still hooked. I’ve been at her place the last few days and I’m gotten almost caught up watching online. We still need to watch last night’s show but it wasn’t online yet (she has no DVR, poor college student). I loved Chehon too! I like all 4 of the final contestants this year. For the longest I thought Ricky and Jessica would win, but Valerie and Zach did so great last week that now I don’t know.

I stumbled across “What I’m Into” this week on somebody else’s blog and thought I’d give it a try. But these kind of posts always take me longer to write than they should so I don’t know if I’ll continue it monthly or not….

Thanks for the link! I have a hankering for some of those cookies, too, except that I need to cut down on sweets.

No one else in my household cares for SYTYCD so I either watch it later in the evening (if my husband dozes off. :-)) or some time the next day, though I hate to watch TV in the day time as that’s my prime time to get other things done. I won’t tell you who won – but it was the one I wanted. 🙂 My favorite SYTYCD winner so far is Chehon from a couple of seasons ago.

Happy anniversary!! Loved the video!

I hadn’t seen the What I’m Into meme before (or have forgotten) but it looks like a nice way to update in short bits.