A few pics: Mike playing the guitar for Joy while she bounces. The Decorah ice cave. Joy loves Zwiebeck. and a cute smile and crawl position. Sorry no pics of me--I'm usually the photographer.

It's my birthday in a few hours. Moreover, it's my night "alone". So I spent some time reflecting on the past year. Whew! It's been quite a year. God's definitely shown me a lot of steadfast love this year. Anyway, after reflecting I really wanted to go to the MU Workspace and play with clay--I've been thinking about it all week. But I get there and they are full--no room for me. I almost cried--tears in my eyes. Then I got to my car and got a text message from a friend saying she needed prayer. I'm not a big text-messager--Mike and I don't have it in our plan, but I do it sometimes anyway. I recently discovered "T9word" (What does that mean, anyway? What it does is finish the word for you, as you type in the letters.) I think it's the coolest. I type in "I'm praying for you..." and I tried to write "sis" but in T9 it comes out as "sir"...hmmm...that won't work. "Sister" sounds very formal. So I tried "sista", even though that's slightly cheesy (mind you I won't just change out of T9 cuz I LOVE T9)...but if you type in "sista" on T9 it comes out as "shrub". So I tried to backspace but hit some random button and it sent. HA! Ha ha ha ha. I about died laughing. How awkward and funny at the same time. I guess that was God's way of helping me turn my attitude around quickly. I bet T9 gets a lot of people in trouble. Why is shrub in there anyway? I wonder how many times people say "shrub" in a text message.

I re-tried making hummus today. Joy loves hummus. I wonder if it has to do with me having lots of hummus cravings when I was pregnant. Regardless, Joy loves hummus and if she sees Mike or I eating it she flaps her arms and says "mmmm!" I don't quite have the right recipe so now we have a huge tupperware full of funky hummus. But I still kinda like it. Hummus is so good--creamy and exotic. Yum!

A little secret: if you hit "archives" up top and scroll down to the bottom of the page, there's this cute, short video of Joy.