‘Ink Re-Cap 171: Random Sketches and Scribbles

‘Ink Re-Cap 171.
Random Sketches and Scribbles
Kim preps to travel: a 1.4K dollar ticket and mountains of paperwork.

 

A traveler’s journal full of experiences

and she hasn’t even left home yet.

Buying a last minute airplane ticket creates incredible drama. First of all, your brain needs reprogramming to believe $1400 USD to travel 2,000 miles is acceptable.

When you get past that hurdle, the next herculean step includes a crash course in border-crossing rules and downloading the arriveCAN app. Because she has to prove she’s vaxxed. (Have you ever tried to scan a whole passport page into an app with a camera? No, it doesn’t work. After too many frustrating tries we resorted to typing the details in letter by letter.) Then the QR codes from the vaxxer people…

If you thought preparing to travel in the old way – buying travel size cosmetics, assessing wardrobe for weather conditions at your destination, smashing it all into a suitcase – was challenging, these post-covid days are worse.

But we’re excited!

I heard Kim tell her therapist she was looking forward to making new friends and just getting away for awhile.

I didn’t realize how badly she needed something like this. If her hosting couple wasn’t running out of a suitable timeframe, we would have waited awhile. To have something to look forward to for a longer time. But things didn’t come together until now, so we do what we can.

Wish Kim happy travels to Endeavor, Saskatchewan! She’ll be staying with our new heroes: Paul and Joni. We’ve never met them, but we love them already.

 

 

‘Ink Re-Cap 171: 

No posts this week.

But we think you’ll enjoy checking out these yummy recipe posts:

Lemon Drops, Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe and a Life 101

What Kind of Church Lady Do You Want To Be?

 

 

 

‘Ink Re-Cap 170

Seasonal posts to check out:

Free Spring Printable Décor: DIY Shelf Sitters

Easter Week, An Interactive Story for Children

My Aunt’s Pineapple Glaze for Easter Baked Ham

Mennonite Easter Bread My Grandma’s Way

5 Books for Easter Preparation for the Passion Weekend

 

 

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Secret Garden Spring Designs: Here at last!!

Just in case you missed our new Baby Line, here’s a peek at some of it.

I think this is our favorite suite ever.

 

 

 

 

Inspiring Inklings of Real Life

The World Outside Our Work Window

I’m too embarrassed to show you inside our work window this week! I had 3 Baby Keepsake Calendars on the worktable, and boy, do I make a whole room look like a hurricane when I dig in. Paper on the floor and boxes on the printers. Frantically digging under the piles for eraser or ruler or pencil.

And then trying to keep up with other paperwork in the same work area.

Husband: Where is that paper we need to get notarized?

Me: Um, let me look under the watercolor tablet on this printer…

Husband: Did you return that call for a VBS book order?

Me: Oops. Where was the number again? (Dig for the scrap of paper I wrote it on.)

Well, I guess I didn’t get outside our work window, did I?

Do we ever stray far from our work???

 

 

Favorite Chuckle this week:

The inventive creativity of children.

I told you my g’littles from Nebraska were here for their spring break? Yep, it was great. So great.

Anyway, one day the biggest boy g’little came up from the basement play area dressed like an Indian cowboy. I can’t even describe it properly, but he took stuff he found around the room, even decor like an animal print scarf, and wore it perfectly wrapped and tucked to absolutely look the part. And his aunt Kim’s tall boots.

His dream at 8 years old is to be a real cowboy, like the teen boys in his Church. He’s long grown out of the chaps and vest I made him, but he still wears them because he needs to look the part when he plays cowboy. When you’re pretending it doesn’t matter if the chaps barely meet your boot tops. But he informed me he didn’t want another set of chaps made by grandma. He wants real wrap-around leather chaps, like his grandpa. Sigh. Too big, too soon.

 

 

Books of the week:

We were too busy to read good books this week…

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DO ANY OF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR BOOKS WE CAN SHARE, THAT HAVE INSPIRED YOU OR YOUR LITTLES? WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.

 

Inspiring Quote

Now for the week’s fridge quote. The Minimalist April calendar printable. Late, but it’s here.

 

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