Creative Friday

On Friday, we had our first get-together of the year!

While I certainly don't expect Jill to bring me a Sonic drink every Friday, I must say I enjoy them very much. I never get one any other time, I just never think about it, so it's a real treat. She also brought Cadbury Christmas chocolates, and I hadn't even seen any this year! Double bonus.

It's funny how I enjoy the creative mess all over the table, no other mess affects me that way...

I thought it was a rather frustrating day, since Max was still home from school, Lucas stayed home sick, and Eva was right there interrupting our every sentence. But then I read on Jill's blog that it was a great day, so I had to re-think it. As usual, I'm just glad she's willing to come be a part of our chaos! {photo by Jill}

We had a rather dumb lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches, but at least we had (my new favorite) leftover cake to see us through.

I love this photo that Jill took -- I have quite an affection for curling tendrils in all their forms.


I taught Jill how to make miracle bread, because with a recipe this easy, no one should be afraid of making homemade bread! She had to agree that it was not intimidating in the least.

Before Jill left, we opened the most ginormous envelope ever that Rebekah had sent us. Inside were two wrapped packages.

I got the biggest kick out of this! One of the many endearing things about Rebekah is that she seems to remember everything, and refers to past posts, sometimes quite out of the blue.

She sent us the most fabulous calendars! Each month has a painting of a woman reading. I have been thinking about representations of people reading in art for some time now, and I've never seen most of these paintings.

Each month also has a quote about reading, another one of my favorite things! The best part is, I was just telling Jill that I hadn't found a calendar yet for 2010 and had resorted to using the puppy one that Santa brought for Eva. But this -- I could not have chosen a more lovely and appropriate one. Thanks, Rebekah!

I'm anxiously awaiting this Friday as Eva will have an exceptional preschool day, and I can only hope both my boys will be in school. Dare we hope for a private, uninterrupted conversation?!