Hola, Familia--
HAPPY APRIL!! Can you believe it's April already! It was an eventful week...well at least it seemed like it to me. It's all relative, isn't it!
BIG BIRTHDAY. My birthday was Wednesday. Yep, the big 5-0! Thank you for my online well-wishes and the fun cards I got!!
That's the birthday where Diane will tell the story of Frank (9th grade at the time?) telling her on HER 50th birthday: "You're a half a century old!" Ha-ha! So, now that is me.
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| Kara brought me a fancy cupcake from "Cupcake Charlie's": YUM |
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| Kari & Frank and my birthday cupcake |
Frank made most of dinner and Kara chopped at the end. That was lovely. Crepes. They were dinner AND dessert. We found a recipe online of chicken curry to put inside them for dinner, plus ham and broccoli. Fruit and whipped cream inside for dessert. Here are some pics.
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| chicken curry crepes -- yum :) |
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| Cheesecake Factory treat! I'm wearing red on the left side |
I went to lunch with some friends at Cheesecake Factory, so that was also fun.
MARYJO. Frank's boss was in town. She lives in New York and came to Boston for the week. We had her over to dinner Thursday, and the food did not burn! That is a plus. I tried a new salad recipe with spinach & romaine on the bottom layer, and top it with salmon and vegetables. All with a dill dressing. I know you're not supposed to try new recipes on guests, but it worked, and it was actually pretty tasty. What a very nice evening, and what a nice boss Frank has! She also has teenagers, and she involved Kara quite a bit in the conversation.
NORTH CAROLINA. Angela (our "adopted" daughter, ha, kidding-kind-of) is about to graduate from UMass Amherst next month. This week she had a successful 2nd interview, and she has a paid internship for this summer! It's in Winston Salem, NC. Yay, Angela! Sometimes this company hires interns. Wouldn't that be cool, too :) :) :)
Conference Weekend has begun -- very uplifting messages and more to think about. I look forward to hearing these talks from our church leaders every 6 months.
APRIL SNOW. Yes, we got snow today, and yes it is April! But I am happy to say that the worst of it went north of us. Maine got over a foot or something. We just got a lot of sloppy, wet snow and rain. Huge puddles formed all over, and snow in the yard, but none stuck to the roads. Happy Day because of THAT!
I better sign off, but we wait excitedly for news of Rachelle and Shad's baby! He's taking his own sweet time (a week late tomorrow), but of course we won't hold that against him :) He's proving to all of us that in the Grand Scheme of things, we have very little control after all. Good reminder!
Happy Sunday tomorrow!
Love, Kari
