January 2012

Since it has been so long since my last post, I will do a little catching up over the past couple months. January was spent mostly housesitting for my co-worker, Roni, and also for our usual 2 Beagles. We celebrated a few birthdays of friends, starting with our friend Patrick (left), who is someone we knew in CA, but recently moved out here and is also going to BC.

Brian took me on a surprise date night to a Catholic worship event called Lift Ministries. It was held at a school about 45 minutes away. It was just like old times! There was an amazing pro-life speaker, adoration, and praise & worship (right). I was in tears within minutes just by being there because it brought me right back to our youth ministry days, reminding me so much of the retreats and events we were involved in. There is something so powerful to me when I hear Christian music being played and the feeling of singing along, praying the words as loud as you want. We haven't found anything like this in Boston yet and I realized that night how much I missed it. (Although, one of the churches we attend regularly has 24-hr adoration, which is definitely awesome, but that's the closest thing we've found. -picture to left). It was the perfect date night!

There were a few snowy days, but this winter has been very unique in that we hardly had any snow on the ground! I was a little bummed, especially since I didn't get any pictures on the days we did have some snow. Brian, on the other hand, was super happy that it barely snowed and wishes every winter was like this one. We have now experienced the extremes of winter in New England!!