Ideas & Plans & Ideas
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
During Rose’s study that morning, she managed to occasionally distract herself by drawing murals on her legs from her magic marker set. It was always at hand on the coffee table during teaching sessions, used as highlighters, but most of the time they were used on Rose’s various limbs instead. And yet the work was still accomplished.
Meanwhile, the day involved discussions of ideas and plans. Carrie sent an email off to Elazar Moss in Sydney, asking for any good suggestions regarding hiking trails, national parks, etc. to which she and Eve could travel while down under in the summer.
In the afternoon while Rose was at choir, Mom, Collette, and Linnea headed over to Trader Joe’s. Linnea selected two chunks of chocolate for two friends and a very green banana, which she wanted to fry. She was also given a purple balloon on the way out of the store.
Afterwards, at Carrie-Bri’s urging, they dropped by the Bubble Tea House at the mall for fruit slushes. They were served by a perky little Asian girl with a heavy accent and bright blue eyeliner above her eyes, who offered them samples and asked if they wanted tapioca balls in the bottom of their slushes. They declined on that count. But Mom ordered chocolate strawberry slushes for herself, Carrie, and Rose, a blueberry for Linnea, and a strawberry peach for Collette. And Linnea picked out colorful fat straws for all of the drinks. They were delicious.
On the way out, Linnea looked enviously at the carousel as it ran its course.
“I would sit on the ostrich,” she said, pointing to the top level of the carousel.
Back at the house, Rose had returned from choir and had picked up her Egypt photographs. Carrie had received all three thick envelopes of her own earlier that morning and sorted out the photos which were not exactly up to par.
Then Joe brought back Frances and Wallace (whose electricity was still out) from choir and betook themselves to the basement for computers and coffee.
Meanwhile Carrie left for work late in the afternoon. She was hoping it would be one of her last evenings to dress up in black and the white apron, depending on what word she heard from NAWS.
With sundown, OLeif picked up Collette, dropped her off at the apartment, left shortly later to meet Tennessee for dinner at Jack in the Box at seven, and then back to work at eight to begin moving the sales floor to another part of the building.
Meanwhile, Jashub was preparing to head off to Columbia to begin another phase of his life. Just having come from a country that paid eighteen dollars an hour to employees at Subway, he was going to have to adjust to working full-time again for a smaller pay. Despite the fact that he had his degree in electrical engineering and had already been employed as a computer programmer, his current interest seemed to rest more in worship arts.
As Jashub had left the house Sunday night, Mom had told him that the family would come down and take him out for a steak dinner after he had gotten himself settled in. Although this time it would be easier to keep in contact with him, being only an hour and a half outside St. Louis instead of the former seventeen hours away while he was in Sydney.
Come seven, Rose would be at her first class of the semester in Ceramics II.
And the day was bitterly cold.
“Oh how good,” said the person once, “it is to work for God in the daytime, and at night to lie down under his smiles.” – Jonathan Edwards