Happy Friday, everyone! First things first, thank you so much for your sweet comments on my last post about our little rescue babe. We had a great little chat over on Facebook, and I just wish we could sit around and have coffee!
How was your week? Ours was sunny, oh so sunny! But despite that, Maya and I seem to have come down with annoying little colds. Mine is nearly gone, but I seem to have passed it along to her, which I feel terrible about. It’s so hard to watch her trying to figure out how to cough and she keeps rubbing her nose and looking at me like Mom, what is this?! I’m finding it simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. Here’s hoping sleep isn’t interrupted tonight!
Speaking of tonight, a friend of a friend (thanks, Anne!) invited me to go to an art talk at the Menil Collection. How fun! And fun to get out on a Friday night while Michael gets a little quality time with Maya! (And speaking of Maya, those are her little feet and yes those are little Aran booties with her initials on them! Our friends Rachael and Anthony sent them from Ireland, along with that gorgeous Aran blanket and even little Aran mittens! This kid, I tell ya, well loved from around the world!)
Tomorrow we have big plans – we’re going to try kolaches (we’re thinking the Kolache Shoppe – any Houstonites have better recommendations?) and then go paint a few slabs of wood for Patrick Renner’s latest installation downtown. There are four big art installations going in downtown next month and it’s so fun to think that we’ll get to have a part in one of them! Then we’re going to watch Michael’s brother play basketball in his Cup match online, while giving our snotty little girl extra snuggles!
What about you, any nice plans this weekend?
Now, a few interwebby things I enjoyed recently:
We watched all of Broadchurch on Netflix and loved it. The cinematography and acting were incredible. Just a shame there are only two seasons!
This thorough and helpful post from Rachael at Erstwhile Dear gave me the kick in the pants to get iCloud and I’m working on backing up all my photos.
According to this article in the New York Times, DHHS placed a dozen unaccompanied minor refugees with human traffickers. Ugh. It’s even harder to read after having gone through the ringer to get our foster and adoption licensing.
I’m working on a project with Etsy Ireland that involves a little virtual shopping. This Vermont shop full of pretty necklaces will be bookmarked for future birthdays! Also, this Galway-based baby blanket shop for future baby presents. So affordable! Ooh….just realized they have really pretty velvet pillows, too!
We’ve been getting grapefruit in our farmshare lately, so I made this grapefruit cake. Yummy, if a little spongey, but great grapefruit flavor. Any other things we can do with grapefruit? Don’t think we’re the biggest fan of it straight up!
Have a lovely weekend, everyone!
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Those booties are beautiful!
Those booties! Those little feet!
Broadchurch is great and in a few months they’ll start to shoot season 3!
Getting back in the groove after a mission trip to Nicaragua with orphansheart.org
Such an incredible experience to work with street kids from Managua by participating in a bible school and feeding program. So humbling to be welcomed into their homes and pray over the families. I’m exhausted but feel so good to be able to help, even if it is for a short time. Now I’m driven to help find sponsors for the kids and their families – we found 10 just this week! The extreme poverty is so heartbreaking!