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Name: Christina
Interests: Studying the Bible, hiding God's word in my heart, discussing theology. Music is a gift from God, I'm so blessed to be able to play piano and flute, and am working on viola. Someday I'll pick up cello again.:) I love reading; photography; traveling outside the US; working with special needs kids; talking to people..
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
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Member Since:
10/27/2005
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| The adventure of registry shopping with a 5 year old helper I tried. I got annoyed, exasperated, cried (twice) in frustration – then I gave up on online registries. This past weekend my brother Ben had me watch “License to Wed,” which although containing a few undesirable aspects, was pretty funny over all. I LOVED the part where the couple goes to register, with two real kids and two mechanical babies in tow. Anyway, after watching that, I decided going to the store was the way to do it.:)
Ideally, Brian was going to go with me, but he was working hard all day & wouldn’t be back till today, so I ended up taking my little sister Lydia. I must tell you that in general I don’t recommend taking kids to do wedding registry shopping. But she was a sport. The day went something like this:
• 11:45AM – head into Shelton with Lydia, formulating our “plan” along the way
• 12:15 PM – Fuel up the car, then head over to Oil Can Henry’s to give the “Jelly Bean” a much needed bath. Lydia watched this ecstatically, being her first automatic car wash experience.:)
• 12:30PM – we ate lunch with “Mrs. Patrick” (Kathy ☺)
• 12:50PMish- checked out:
o one hair salon
o one nail/waxing/spa salon
o the library – to get “kid” music (Lydia didn’t care for my classical selections)
• 2 PM - checked out J. C. Penney’s –but didn’t register. Maybe later.
• 2:30PM – checked into Bed, Bath & beyond & hit the aisles!:)
Okay, so there are pros and cons to having a 5 year old shopping with you. The good things were I had an excuse for my every thirty minutes bathroom stops!:) Also, I wasn’t given odd looks for talking to myself, as it looked like I was really talking to Lydia. It’s also nice to hear, “oooh, I like that too!” and receive helpful comments such as, “That is TOO girly Tina – Brian WONT like that!”
The cons? Well, after an hour Lydia realized this wasn’t going to be fun shopping. She started making comments like, “Tina, I’m suppose to be the SLOW POKE – NOT YOU!!” “Do we HAVE to look at ALL the wash cloths?” and her doomsday predictions of, “If you take so long, they’ll close the store and will be stuck here forever!” *ROLLS EYES*
After two hours, she started getting goofy on me. Pointing at me with her “finger” scanner, it was, “BEEP! I bought you!” “Beep – I’m getting two of you!” “Beep – oh my! You’re free – yay!!” *MORE EYE ROLLING*
I really enjoyed Bed, Bath & beyond. Their scanner was so much nicer, and so was the set up.:) Also, they had a wedding registry helper who checked on me every so often. She also told someone in each department who I was, and so they were VERY helpful.
Our next store was Target, which Lydia enjoyed a lot more. Perks with Target – they give you free popcorn and soda to enjoy while shopping if you register there. Also they had kid carts which worked much better with Lydia as she could walk around whenever I stopped for a long time. Negatives for Target: it took nearly 30 minutes just to get the registry scanner so we could START. Also the scanner was extremely slow, would duplicate, delete (or NOT delete sometimes).
We ended the shopping with getting some shoes for Lydia & Meg. Lydia really enjoyed that, and was being a typical girl about the whole thing. She took her shoes off and tried on about 12 pairs of goofy looking shoes we never would have bought. We settled on some cute white tennis shoes with little gems on the sides (for nice everyday, off the farm use) and some cute pink with flowers velcro strapped shoes for Sundays.:)
Lydia "plunked" just after starting the one hour trek home from Olympia. It was a fun day but we were sure ready to get home!:) Clocked in about 9:45PM - whew!
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| My latest endeavors at craftiness.. This was my latest endeavor this past week. I had shown Meg these really cute handbags that said, "Flowergirl" on ebay, and she told Lydia that, "Tina's going to get us these cool bags!" UH-OH. Well, I've been crunching budget numbers all week, and I don't have $30-40 to spend on two bags. So I shopped around town and bought sparkley peel and stick jewels and two bags for a total of $11 and I spent two hours (you would be surprised at how difficult it is to peel off little pieces of paper on about 200 jewels) putting these together:
I did Meg's first .. for obvious reasons. .
That was a great success, so I turned to Lydia's next.
The girls were thrilled with the bags, and decided having their names on the bags was better then "Flowergirl". I may add some more jewels later, but I was tired of them after doing their names.:)
Here's some pictures from today:
Lydia, Tomo and the three little rats (oh, I mean kitties)..
Wesley, Meg, Tomo & rats..
This was Meg's idea, Tomo was going, "Oh no, on no!"
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| Thanking God for using little thingsOne year ago today..
I slept in.
That may not seem significant, but it is. You see, I was suppose to go with my family that day.
We were going to visit a church two hours away. By the time I got up, I only had time to get everyone else out the door. When my family left I got myself ready to go, and went to our usual church.
One year ago today..
I saw him smile.
I walked in the door and saw a young man strumming on a guitar. He looked up at me and I looked at him and we smiled at each other. His family came to sing, and if I had gotten up earlier, I wouldn't have gotten to meet them. Or in particular, him.:) Of course, he thought I was a teenager at the time,
but he was interested!:) And less then a month later he was coming over to our house and he hasn't left since!
One year ago today..
Was the start of a new adventure..
I am simply amazed at times at how God uses little things like sleeping in, to bring about huge things. I am so grateful for an entire year of getting to know the Patrick family. I was grafted into their family long before the "M" word ever reached my ears. I am so loved by them it is simply amazing. I am so blessed.
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| Kudos to ebay! I just purchased a flowergirl dress on ebay for $19.94 total. Yipee! I think it will fit Meg. I just need to convince her that she WANTS to be one of my flowergirls. Lydia was all for it once I told her about the throwing flowers part!:) So now I just need to find Lydia a dress, hopefully for the same price!:) Right now these poor girls are wearing tattered tennis shoes to church, so I would rather invest in getting them new white shoes for the wedding that they can wear over & over again, and not put so much into a dress they may only wear once.:) Oh.. did you want to see the dress? Here it is:
We’re still building shopping, I’m hoping we can get the 7th day Adventist church – it is beautiful and seats close to 300. We have a back up church reserved, but it’s not aesthetically to my liking, nor as big as I’d like.
The weeks are flying by, and I still haven’t contacted everyone. I am so out of touch that I don’t even have phone numbers for everybody, so I’ll be sending out save the dates by mail to those people (it’s on my to-do list).
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| Oh my, I'm spoilt for choice!This week has been too funny in regards to this dress situation.:)
I have two dresses coming in the mail from ebay.
My Aunt told me she has TWO dresses sitting in her closet that where her daughters.. she says she'll just mail them to me and I can decide if I want to use one of them or not.
Then today a lady from our church called and said, "God told me to call you and tell you about a dress I'm getting rid of - can I bring it by your house?" It's a gorgeous dress and she only wants $50 for it! Other then the ultra poofy sleeves and funny looking bow on the back (both can be fixed!:) ) it is perfect!
I'm just waiting for them to show up, and then we'll make a decision. It's funny because I really wanted a dress with sleeves, and was thinking I'd end up having to buy one for close to $1,000. I'm now acquiring dresses like their going out of style! God is good!:)
Okay, now if I could just calm down enough to do some serious studying..:)
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