Monday, March 08, 2010

Windowed surprise

I had a GREAT time at the church women's retreat this weekend.  It's the second time I've gone, and I'm already looking forward to next year!  I truly enjoy the opportunity to meet women from church and to get to know others better.  We don't have a huge church, but since my husband and I work with the Hispanic church plant, there are plenty of gals that I don't get the opportunity to meet on a normal Sunday.  There were about 40 women at the retreat, and together we enjoyed some great worship time, a few testimonies, some Bible study, free time (which for me included a walk around the beautiful Bonclarken grounds, tea and chocolate cake with some great conversation, a brief nap and some reading time), lots of chatting and games - which is almost the best part, since my hubby is not quite as much a fan as I am, so we don't play many at home.
Anyway, the official topic of this post is the surprise I stumbled upon when I arrived home on Sunday afternoon:

My dear mom did my dining room curtains and my living room curtains (I helped with the latter set) and these kitchen ones were on her To-Do list forEVER!  Since she's moving, she finally gave up and hired someone to actually make them (since we had already picked out and purchased the fabric), and surprised me by installing them while I was gone (technically, she and hubs were still putting on the finishing touches when I showed up, but who cares).  I was totally used to the no-curtain look, since it's been that way for 2.5 years since we moved in, so it's still a bit odd... but I love them!  Aren't the colors perfect?  Don't worry, the chip clip won't stay there forever, haha :)

Soli Deo Gloria

6 comments:

The Hines Family said...

I'm so excited to have found your blog!! The curtains are adorable! And I am going to motivate myself to make my own yogurt using your recipe--SOON! :-)

The Hines Family said...

Okay, so I just looked up Absolute Organics--which size box did you buy?

Justine said...

I got the "small" ($30) box, since there's only 2 of us and it was already a jump into eating more produce than we're used to! It's still going well, and I'm looking forward to my next box this week - I'm sure I'll end up posting what's in it :)

The Hines Family said...

Fun! How often does it come?

Justine said...

I think they generally set you up on either a weekly or bi-weekly schedule (mine is bi-weekly). However, there's no contract, and you can always adjust for vacations or whatever, so I think you could basically set it up however you wanted.

Justine said...

Time-out... is bi-weekly 2x/wk? 'Cuz I meant once every two weeks :)