Sherry | April 27, 2009
Last week as Mauri and I walked through the halls of the local retirement community, Friendsview, he subtly pointed to a 35ish-looking woman and told me she was once a Young Friends Singer. This testifies to his durability, if nothing else. The energetic Young Friends Singers began their spring tour yesterday by helping lead worship [...]
Sherry | April 25, 2009
We’ve made some funky purchases at garage sales over the years. While our shopping interests generally gravitate to gender-stereotypical categories, we both like pre-weathered birdhouses/birdfeeders. That interest might connect to our 100-year-old pre-weathered backyard apple tree. Hmmm. Looks like we’ve neglected the “feeder” part. Since our garage-sale birdhouses come with a good part of their [...]
Sherry | April 21, 2009
The phone rang before daylight dropped through the skylight of our sleeping quarters. It was a Portland officer. Not the kind of call you want to answer at 5 a.m. She told Mauri that our black jeep had been involved in an accident out on the freeway. Our jeep is green, said he, and he [...]
Sherry | April 18, 2009
Quinn, I know you would have been here in Portland for the Beth Moore conference if you hadn’t already made plans for a girls weekend in Scottsdale. But Lisa Springate and I enjoyed sitting together and with other NFC women, who found us great seats, by the way. Beth taught us from Galatians 2:20-21; 4:15-20 [...]
Sherry | April 14, 2009
If you’d like to buy the world a Coke, you’ll absolutely love this. (Thanks, Rebekah!)
Sherry | April 7, 2009
It was time to leave the house (for lunch at Jim’s Cheesesteak and the airport) and I still hadn’t captured the family portrait I needed to take home with me. John was making a home-repair call, so while Rachel swung Oscar to maintain his good humor for the picture, I snapped off a few shots [...]
Sherry | April 4, 2009
We timed our visit to meet Oscar to coincide with his parents’ 7th wedding anniversary so that we could offer our childcare services for an evening of celebration. Being new parents, they might rather have stayed home, but they accommodated our wishes and went out to dinner and a movie. I didn’t actually ask permission [...]
Sherry | April 3, 2009
Yes, we do things together—things other than look at Oscar, talk about Oscar, hold Oscar, take pictures of Oscar. Right now I can’t think of what we do besides things relating to Oscar. Well, look! Here’s one. We eat. We stroll. They cook. But you already know the truth. It’s really all about the baby. [...]
Sherry | April 1, 2009
We were blessed with good flights today, first to San Francisco and finally to Philadelphia. Of course we were eager to see Rachel and John—it’s been a long time! But the star of the day was Oscar Kedric Williams (born February 7). Here’s Mauri meeting his newest grandson. Looks like this relationship is off to [...]