Lazy Day

It was a delightfully quiet day. I slept in, then hung out with Mom until it was time to pick the Bean up from school. She and I went to the grocery store and cooked a dinner of chili and cornbread together. The brother and Double A joined us for dinner. After they left I watched a little tv, read, drank some tea, and got ready for bed. Lovely. I spent a good chunk of the day in my pjs, which means I spent a good chunk of the day in my fuzzy socks. I know I've done fuzzy socks before, and I know they aren't shoes, but it's my blog, and I'll post socks if I want to.

We'll, you can definitely tell I have a thing for stripes! I could have sworn I chose pictures of socks with other patterns...

And this just makes me smile. Pretty sure I need to make a fuzzy sock puppet! 

I'm currently wearing turquoise fuzzy socks with snowflakes on them. I'm always so hot in California that I rarely get to wear fuzzy socks, so I have to enjoy it as much as possible when I'm home. I can even sleep in them! And yes, I know this whole post just proves that I'm weird, but I'm OK with that.

HP

OK, so you might be getting tired of the Harry Potter themed shoes, but there are just so many.  I've done the houses, so tonight I went in search of more general HP shoes and there are 8 kajillion of them.  No, really.

 

 

I didn't see a picture of these separately, although I'm sure I just didn't search hard enough, but even Nike got in on the house shoe act.

There are shoes with art work from the various book covers.

 

 

Ooooh...Marauder's Map shoes.  These are awesome.

 

Shoes with scary renditions of Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

 



Another in the series of sparkly pumps.  Ignore the other shoes that have nothing to do with HP.

 

 

But these are my favorite.  Yes, I realize they are rather childish and simple, but if you don't know Potter Puppet Pals then your life is a sad state of affairs.  Please let me help to remedy that:

 

 

Yes, naked Dumbledore.  Entertaining the nieces for more than half a decade.  You're welcome.

 

Today was a bit up and down.  I feel crappy, so that doesn't help.  Our yard guy asked the hubby this morning if I am pregnant.  Sigh.  NOT pregnant.  On the other hand, my father-in-law told the hubby this morning that he thinks the hubby picked the sweetest berry in the swamp.  Not the compliment I had ever expected, but my FIL loves me quite a lot, so I'll take being a swamp berry. :-)

 

Acolytes and Bishops and Puppets and Preschoolers

The evening seems to have gotten away from me, so I'm sliding today's post in just under the wire.  It was an exciting day at church as the Bishop from the Lutheran Church in Rwanda was visiting us.  Our synod has a companion relationship with them, so the bishop was here for Synod Assembly last week, and then we were fortunate enough to have him visit our congregation this morning.  After church the hubby, the senior pastor and his wife, and I took the bishop to a local winery where we had a really wonderful picnic lunch.  It was great to have a chance to visit and get to know him a little bit.  My 2 favorite parts of the day were during the 2nd service.  First the preschool choir sang 2 songs for the congregation, and they were adorable as always.  After that Gabby the little blue puppet came to talk to the bishop.  Gabby had a blast, and the bishop was a really good sport to talk to a hyper-crazy puppet in something other than his first language.

 

In shoe news, here are more acolyte feet:

 

The acolyte on the left took it in stride, while the one on the right said, "really?  You're really going to take a picture of my feet?"  While her mother rolled her eyes and said I had a foot fetish.  Ahem...I have a SHOE fetish, thank you very much.