"My Husband is in the Caterpillar."

Steven and I work in the nursery at church on Sunday mornings and yesterday we were in a different room from normal because they didn't have enough volunteers. I figured Steven was really going to like the new room because we were with two year olds. Steven much prefers the ones that can run and talk and giggle and play. Understandably so. It makes sense why this would be more fun for him. Anyway the two year old room has this big plastic caterpillar tunnel type thing for the kids to crawl through -- oh, wait, you mean, you know where this is going? let me tell the story anyway -- and I had a feeling it wouldn't take long for Steven to check it out. Sure enough he was chasing kids through there and they were crawling in after him and laughing and shrieking and just having the best time ever. Then during snack time he had crawled through but everyone else was at the snack table so he just sort of layed there waiting for someone to come back and play. At that time someone came by to take attendance and she said "oh my goodness! Is it just the two of you in here?" and I said "Oh, no, my husband is in the caterpillar." It just rolled off my tongue as if that were a completely normal thing. I found it rather amusing :)



Things have been busy around here as usual. We've seen two shows in the past couple of weeks. The first was Vanities a new musical that was showing at the ACT as part of our 5th Avenue subscription. It was a musical performed by just 3 women and showed snapshots from different stages of their lives and friendships. I really enjoyed it. Of course, a show filled with singing and all about relationships - perfect. It's not my new favorite or anything but it was unique and so fun to hear the whole thing done in three-part harmonies. It was also my first time at the ACT. I really like the intimate setting of the theatre. It's nice that it's so small.



Then last week we saw The Odyssey at the Taproot Theatre. It was pretty good. Steven and I definitely prefer musicals to straight theatre but it was still entertaining. Josh Smyth is in the show and it's always fun to see a familiar face on stage. That whole evening was rather stressful actually. I had worked that day up in Bothell so I had to race home so that Steven and I could eat dinner and then drive into Seattle... where we discovered we had a flat tire. We decided we would just change it after the show since we didn't have enough time before but... sadly, everything had been screwed on too tightly so we couldn't get it off with our wimpy wrench. We were so annoyed that we had to call for roadside assistance for something we are both capable of doing ourselves. So we sat in our freezing car with it's sad little flat tire in the Bartells parking lot until someone from Seattle Auto Rescue, or whatever, came and fixed it for us sometime around midnight. And then the long drive home, during which Steven fell asleep, good thing I was driving... it was all very exciting. Fortunately, when I took my car to Costco on Saturday morning they fixed the tire for me at no charge! Another reason I'm glad I purchased my tires at Costco. You can shop while they fix your flat tire for free. Simply marvelous.




Valentine's Day was really fun. Steven had to work but I bought pink champagne and baked some spritz cookies and made cream cheese frosting to dip strawberries into and Steven and I played a board game and enjoyed our treats when he got home from work. Then the next morning I made us some mini-doughnuts with the mini-doughnut maker my mom bought for me for Valentine's Day and we put the cream cheese frosting on those. Yum! Cream cheese frosting makes everything taste better. Well, I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but it was really good anyhow. We had a little day-after-Valentine's-Day date that evening starting with a shopping trip to Borders books to spend up our giftcards before they go out of business, dinner at Olive Garden and then to the SuperMall Cinema to see The Kings Speech, which was truly wonderful. Colin Firth was fabulous and it was nice to see Miss Helena Bonham Carter playing a normal human being. I was worried I wouldn't be able to watch her play anyone other than Bellatrix but she was quite convincing in this role. Geoffrey Rush was pretty great too. Quite the switch from his role in the Pirate movies.



Our new small group got together for the first time tonight!! We'd been hoping that someone would start a group a little bit closer to our house but it just wasn't happening so we decided to just go for it and we started one ourselves. We had a feeling we weren't the only people from our church who live in the southend and we were right! Eight people signed up for our group and there were 7 here tonight! We'll only be meeting every other week because of Steven's work schedule. The plan is to share treats and play games and just try to make friends who don't live so dreadfully far away. It went pretty well. They liked the lemon bars I made so that's always a step in the right direction. We played Catchphrase and Bang and talked about where people live and why they live so far from civilization. I think it's going to be a really great group. I'm excited to get to know them all better.

It's mid-winter break so no subbing this week but I've got a couple of interviews for tutoring jobs so let's hope for the best! Have a great week and happy birthday to Whitney by the way ;)