Librarian in Disguise

my sweetie pie

my sister's family

I love this picture of Alicia, Damon & Fuller. I must say though that Fuller steals the show. He is just too dern cute! How lucky am I to have such a cute nephew. I seriously can't express in words how much i LOVE being an Aunt. I'm really looking forward to Christmas when all of us will meet up in Ohio for a longer visit.

It's been so fun these last few years to grow in my friendship and love for my sisters. I am humbled to have a family that appreciates one another and engages in each others lives.

two days and counting

On Saturday morning I fly out of Hotlanta to Florida. I have a long weekend, Fall Break--gotta love the Academic Schedule. I'm super excited to have 4 full days with my new sweet niece Genevieve. It will be lots of fun to hang out with her and her folks!

Now back to grading mid-terms and drinking my morning coffee.

amazing

Wow! I had tears in my eyes when they opened their concert. It was an amazing evening a well timed taste of Ohio! And Karin even sang "Ohio" what a delight and warm reminder of a place I love and miss. They sang a great mix of their music. I appreciate the balance they give to new and old songs. They even sang, "If a song could be President" as one of their encore sets.

I'm so thankful that I got to go. I even had a friend come along. New friends and old favorites. It was a great night!

i really should be in bed but...

...i keep playing with this photo software from picnik.com that is free this week. Here is one last creation before I'm off to bed!

cool niece

Over the Rhine

Over the Rhine is going to be in Athens on Thursday and I am going to see them in concert! Yeah. I'm so very excited. I've asked a number of folks but no one has been able to go. Until yesterday, I asked a fellow Covenant Alum (I think she is in my sister Alicia's class) to go with me and she graciously agreed! We actually go to the same church in Watkinsville, but we go to different services. It will be good to go hear OTR, it will certainly make me long for Ohio. But it is fulfilling a new requirement I have for myself--I must now be social during the week at least once and not just on the weekends. Last week I fulfilled the requirement by having dinner with my cousins, at a super yummy Latin American place, where you eat on tables in front of the restaurant in sand. Now I need to start thinking about next week.

how I spent part of my weekend...

busy busy october

It's a lovely cool morning in Northeast Georgia. I'm sitting here with my front door open sipping coffee and finishing some yummy zucchini bread. I find that I especially enjoy Monday mornings because I don't go to work until 1pm so I can linger in the morning and take care of unfinished details to get ready for a new week.

I'm almost done unpacking from my quick trip to Chattanooga. I had a great time with my sisters and their kids. This month has turned really busy on me. Chattanooga this past weekend, Auburn next weekend and Florida the weekend after that! It is loads of fun to have all this fun trips to look forward to but the bummer is that I'm gone on Sundays and I was/am in the early stages of getting connected at church. Well I'll just have to work extra hard at it in November. Getting connected at a church has been a bit harder than I anticipated but living 30+ miles away from my church is an added obstacle that I'm sure I'll eventually conquer.

Well I best be going. I need to run to the library and return Harry Potter Book 1 on tape. Didn't get to finish it. The 4th tape broke on my way home last night. Argh! I really do want to listen to the book. I'll have to get another set of tapes so I can finish the first book.

Happy Birthday Daddy

Today is my Dad's 58th birthday! This has been a busy year for Daddy. He spent late winter/early spring serving with the USAF in Afghanistan. He was promoted to Lt. Col. He came back with an assignment to Texas, performed a nephew's wedding ceremony, moved to Texas, became a grandpa for the 2nd time, this time he got a Granddaughter and turned 58! My goodness that is a full year and we still 2.5 months left!

Happy Birthday Daddy! I'm thankful to have such a loving, gracious and encouraging Father!

sisters

I spent the weekend in Chattanooga. It took me 4.5 hours to come what should have taken 3.5. Argh! Atlanta traffic is the pits. I kept seeing signs declaring that there were delays and that I should seek an alternate route. One problem...I didn't know an alternate route and was stuck crawling along on 75N. Lesson learned. I'm buying a good GA map so I can learn an "alternate route", because I like coming to Chattanooga.

I was here in Chattanooga because my sister Sarah Ginny and Nat were in town with my new niece. So I couldn't pass up the opportunity to visit when they would be around. They were here in town because one of Nat's cousins (a fellow librarian) was getting married.

We all had a grand time. On Saturday morning all three of us went to IHOP with Fuller & Genevieve in tow. And we celebrated Fuller's birthday a week late...it was fun to see him actually take interest in opening the gifts. A fun glimpse of what Christmas will be like.

And then yesterday afternoon Alicia and I watched Genevieve and her cousin Marin while their folks attended the ceremony. That was an adventure, especially when Alicia magically got them both to sleep at the same time. You'll have to see Alicia's posting on that ability!

This morning in church I got to hold Genevieve through a good portion of church. She was peacefully asleep for a good while. Then she woke up and cried, that's when I gave her back to her mom.

Well that's a really brief abstract from the weekend! And here's a photo from after church.

three, three at last!

My little nephew and buddy Fuller turns three today. Officially this afternoon. It's hard to believe that he's already three years old. I remember like it was yesterday when my Mom called to tell me that he had been born. I was sitting in my office in Columbus, Ohio. I cried I was so happy. It has been a delightful three years. He will always have a very special place in my heart because he's the little boy who made me an Aunt and a Cool Aunt at that. I get to celebrate with him next week when I'm in Chattanooga. Happy Birthday Fuller!