Emotion

I've discovered about myself in recent years that when life is being tough on me, I lose interest in being creative. You'd think it'd be an outlet and a way of escape.

It's not.

It's a chore.

This is my life lately. I WANT to be crafty and make fun things, but I'm emotionally drained.

Many of you know my dad was recently in an accident, and that has kept me emotionally tied up lately. Maybe borderline depressed.

My heart is at home with my parents and siblings, but my life is here keeping me torn between the two. We've decided it's best for me not to fly down there at this point, but I'm so homesick at the same time.

I just feel drained.

So forgive me for the sparseness of posts lately. I'm hoping to do a project in the coming weeks that has me excited.

Until then, though, I'm going to do my best to make the most of my Thanksgiving holiday with my husband and in-laws.

I wish you all a wonderful holiday with countless reasons to be thankful!

- Kendall

When will they realize...?

I'm starting to wonder when the world will realize that I'm brilliant.  As I've been working at the church, several occasions have arisen where I've had a stroke of genius or fixed a copier issue, and when Pastor J watches in wonder I've explained to him that I'm brilliant.  And he laughs.  But it's true.

Consider this scenario: Chewie gave me a Kindle for Christmas - woohoo!  But all the cases for Kindles at Best Buy (where he bought it) are expensive, and I want time to find the perfect one.  The whole reason he gave me my gift early is so that I can have it for my plane rides to and from TX for Thanksgiving, but I would hate for it to get messed up during travel, like if it was in my purse or something.  So, being the brilliant person I am, I did a little "research" on Pinterest (the best website ever) and found a crochet pattern for a simple cover and whipped one right up (and even added buttons)!  Problem solved in an hour with supplies on hand.  You can't tell me I'm not brilliant.

Ok, ok.  So maybe I'm not brilliant, but can we agree that I'm at least creative? :)

In other news, I saw Breaking Dawn: Part 1 yesterday with Chewie's mom, and it was SO good.  It was a little graphic, which was why we were so surprised that there were several young children there.  I have to say that I'm incredibly envious of Bella & Edward's wedding - it was like a dream!  And Christina Perry has a song on the soundtrack that is incredible - give it a listen (and get a sneak peak of the wedding):

Tomorrow is our annual Agapefeast at church, which is basically a Thanksgiving potluck, and I am super duper excited.  Yummy food and fun table decorations and good friends and church family.  Can't.  Wait.

Also, I'm flying home Monday morning for Thanksgiving!  I can't wait to see all of my family and our dog.  I miss them all, and I haven't been home for Thanksgiving since college.  So this should be really fun!

On the flip side, I won't be home for Christmas this year - the first time ever.  I have mixed emotions about it.  I need to be here because Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, and we are having a Christmas morning service at the church.  It'll be nice spending Christmas with my church family, but nothing is quite like Christmas with my family.  So I'll be spending the holiday with Chewie's family and my close friends, which is the next best thing to spending the holiday with my family in Texas.

Anyhow, hope that you all have a fantastic Thanksgiving and enjoy giving thanks to the One who gave us all we have to be thankful for!

It's short because I'm busy...

This morning, our senior pastor informed me that church life is super-duper busy between October 1 and January 1.

Autumn Fest.

Thanksgiving.

Christmas.

New Year's.

I think I believe him.  I am so busy with ministry stuff right now that I can hardly keep my thoughts straight.

But I love it.  I love love love what I'm doing.  I was made for this.

I hope you're finding joy in the busyness in your life right now.