What a busy weekend! We picked up Joshua on Saturday and enjoyed hearing about all his adventures at camp and then spent the evening with friends who live on a nearby lake. Patrick took me out in their small motor boat for a little date while the boys played in the lake near their house with them. We all had a lot of fun.
Then yesterday we had a going away party for friends from church who are moving to another state. We met at a park and had hot dogs and visited. The men and boys played whiffle ball and it was so fun to watch. The men would chase the boys all the way around the bases and let them get home runs every time. Patrick and I talked about how we need to do this more often...not just when people are moving!
Yesterday our youth pastor preached, and he talked about how we all need encouragement from one another. Then he proceeded to tell how Matthew had been an encouragement to him!! He told us later that Matthew came up to him one Sunday after he spoke and said, "You did a great job speaking. Jesus spoke through you." !!!! :)
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Seriously- Matthew is going to be a politician or a pastor... let's hope for the latter of the two. : ) But, he's an amazing little man, that's for sure.
And, you really enjoyed the peas?? I can't say I felt the same! Ha!
and why am i now "the"... that's a little odd.
LOL! I was wondering who you were until i read the comment about the peas! That's too funny!!
Sounds like a lovely day. I was just telling a friend about how much "community" there is for you guys. You have lots of friends and neighbors but somehow you all still connect and enjoy being with each other without cliques forming. I'm beginning to think people in WV are backward and suspicious of relationship or maybe it is just too much trouble...I don't really know. But, I do envy the friendliness of the people in your part of the world!
I haven't read the Benson books yet but here is a review from Amazon:
For me, there is nothing quite like E.F. Benson's 'Lucia' series, except perhaps for the novels of the great Jane Austen herself. Benson is truly a social satirist of Austen's calibre (and I give this praise as an absolute Worshipper of Austen, so it's not lightly given). Benson's characters, living, as they do, lives of comfort & ease in quiet, picturesque English villages, during a historical period of relative peace, manage to get up to the most exciting and riveting, but at the same time, completely polite and respectable social adventures, and display to the reader their own little vanities and self-deceits in the most wonderful ways. I think I'm on my third reading of the books now (having acquired them about 5 years ago) and I still enjoy them immensely. I can't imagine any fan of Jane Austen not also totally 'getting' Benson's Lucia & Miss Mapp books. Benson rocks!!
Miss Read's books are about English village life but not in a satirist way. Just sweet, simple look at people and village life.
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