Wednesday Hodgepodge - End of Summer Daze

A hodgepodge is a jumble or assortment of things that might not appear to belong together. Joyce at From This Side of the Pond hosts a weekly link-up called Wednesday Hodgepodge that is a little collection of questions for bloggers to answer just for fun and to get to know each other. I always look forward to chatting with friends over coffee, so pour a cup of your favorite and let's visit for a few minutes!

Here are this week's questions - and my answers - for this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge.

1.  What was the best (or one of the best) summer of your life? Tell us why.

 

Wow, so many have been memorable in so many good ways! The summer right before I went to college was so good. My two friend groups did all kinds of fun things together, including some road trips. Right at the beginning of the summer I went to our church high school camp - it was the last year I was eligible to go as a student, even though I had been out of high school for a year. I was at the cabin with some friends the weekend before and they dropped me off at camp - I got there and found out they were short a girls counselor and since I had experience doing that at kids camp and was also 'technically' a college student, they talked me into doing it. I wasn't thrilled about it but it wound up being a really good experience.

 

The summer we got married was one of the best, obviously!

I'd also have to say the summer my daughter was born was one of the best as well. Welcoming a daughter into our family was such a delight, but there were some other big life changes that happend within a very short period of time as well. First, we left our church and were a part of planting a new church work in a nearby town. Together with several other families that we'd grown very close to, we'd been praying and seeking the Lord's will about how we should respond to circumstances at church, and he finally led us to just start a new fellowship. We made the break just a couple weeks before Kennady's birth. And at the same time, we had put our house on the market and were closing the deal on a new house. We moved when Kennady was just three weeks old. It was a busy, exciting summer! 

 

2. When you have a trip coming up do you make a list and check it twice to ensure you don't forget anything? Or are you a 'throw whatever you can think of into the suitcase at the last minute' kind of packer? When returning from a trip do you unpack immediately or leave the suitcase right where it lands?

 

I'm a list maker! In order to remember everything and have any hope of having it ready on time, this procrastinator has to have lists! I have lists I've been working from to get ready for our family vacation coming up later this week, although I haven't yet made a list (on paper, anyway!) of what I need to put in a suitcase. When we get back, we tend to unpack almost immediately, as pretty much everything will go in the laundry. It does take awhile to get the luggage shoved back in the closet though, and this time around, I didn't even bother putting the luggage away because it was about three weeks between trips so I just left it out on the sofa in the spare room. 

3. What's your favorite food or beverage made with lemons? Is that a flavor you enjoy?

 Mmmm, I love lemon flavored things. All the lemonades! I guess lemon meringue pie might be my favorite food made with lemons. At least that I can think of right now.

4. When was the last time you had to make lemonade out of lemons, figuratively speaking I mean?

 Everything about moving to Ohio, I suppose. We're making the best of having to be renters instead of living in a house we own, and so many related things. 

5.  Did you like school growing up? Why or why not?

 

I loved school! Not every single aspect of it, of course, but overall I enjoyed learning and enjoyed being with friends. My schools and my teachers were good, my grades were good, and I managed to avoid getting in trouble. Not that I avoided trouble . . . I just got away with almost all the trouble I got into! In high school I had classes I struggled with and didn't like, but it wasn't bad enough to sour me on the whole school experience. In fact, I still wanted to be a teacher!

6. Insert your own random thought here.

On Saturday I went to church and, along with at least a dozen others, assembled and baked fifty-six lasagnas to be delivered to some nearby households through an organization called LasagnaLove. Then my husband and I volunteered to do a delivery route, and delivered five lasagna dinners. Such a neat organization! And after driving around for almost an hour with hot lasagnas and garlic bread in the car, we were hungry for Italian, so we went out for pizza instead of going home to make dinner!

Now it's getting late in the day so I need to publish this, and then see about tidying the spare room. This weekend our whole family is headed for a vacation house for a few days of family vacation!

 How are you spending these last days of summer? Leave a comment and let me know!

I'm sharing in this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge at From This Side of the Pond.

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