tiredness.

finally a day of relaxation and staying home-ness.

I think that's the craziest Christmas I've ever had.


it was crazy fun! but now I have to stock up on energy for NY at campfire.

they're gone. but the partying continues.

my relatives left at 6:00 this morning. and yes, I got up to say goodbye. (I didn't cry!)

haha. and then I went back to bed. It felt good.

So today my whole family, minus me of course, went to Blue Mountain with my mom's brother to go skiing/snowboarding for the first time ever. Lucky them. I'm staying home...and going to another Christmas thing...and protecting my very important limbs from breakage.


What do I do at home all alone? For a whole entire morning? Well, pumping the stereo is a given...maybe I'll work on my puzzle.....and take a nap:)

it's begun.

partying has begun....

and their visit is almost half over already:(


I like jamming and recording with Curtis (my "pretty much" super tall, fun, ever-laughing cousin) he reminds me of Chris Muis:P

yeah. I love Christmas for all the family fun.

CHRISTmas.

I was sitting on the couch by the tree reading my Bible and it hit me all over again.


Christmas is not about trees. It's about a baby, who is called

Wonderful
Counsellor
Mighty God
Everlasting Father
Prince of Peace

Amazing love. Amazing miracle of love.

house invasion!

my aunt and uncle and four cousins from NC are coming tomorrow night!!

I'm super excited. even though my room will be invaded by my two younger sisters for almost a week. it's worth it.

when your mind won't stop.

i fell asleep listening to Jack Johnson last night.

trees.

Christmas trees smell so good. mmmm...so good!

I love looking at them, looking at the presents underneath.

"Christmas" is so pretty.

christmas is in the air.

my Christmas looks like it will consist of:

• opening gifts and hanging out with my family
• my aunt and uncle and four cousins from NC
• food, tons of it!
• playing in church on Christmas morning
• sharing gifts
• caroling on Christmas Eve
• skating with my church
• family gatherings
• sleeping in as long as I want
• maybe reading a book
• practicing piano...
• Christmas music, hopefully Sufjan
• meeting lots of new people
• and hopefully, lots of snow...just no snow storms please:)

I'm pretty excited...only two more days of studying and finishing cards and gifts. Wow, I can't believe it's actually almost here.

thoughts on version of the Bible.

i think i like the NIV. i've been hearing it a lot lately in church, and hearing it in youth group Bible studies too. and i think i like it. sometimes it has words that i like better or i can identify with easier. and other times it has way better sentence construction!

it won't stop.

it just keeps snowing. and snowing and snowing! and it's so beautiful. better than beautiful. gorgeous! so much gorgeousness:)

.

snowed in.

church was cancelled this morning.


oh snow. i love the cozy feeling it leaves you with when you're "snowed in" and you have a coffee in your hand as you watch the snow coming down. and you're home with your family.

yet, i still would rather go to church.

coldplay.

on sunday i heard this song for the first time. i almost cried.

and now i'm borrowing Nadine's zen and i've been listening to it over and over.

i love it.

FIX YOU

When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

High up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
If you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I...

Tears stream down on your face
I promise you I will learn from the mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I...

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

i like the relaxing sound of coldplay. and their songs about feelings and life. even though they don't always give hope...the hope of Christ. it just triggers something in me.

"You're will be done"

2 Corinthians 12:9-10:

'But he said to me,

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power

is made perfect in weakness." Therefore

I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses,

so that Christ's power may rest on me.

That is why, for Christ's sake,

I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardshps,

in persecutions, in dfficulties.

For when I am weak, then I am strong.'

i'm blogging this for Ben and Anton:)

yup.


because i played a harpsichord on Monday before the choir concert.

and i didn't just play anything on it. i played a fugue.



wish you could have heard it. it would have made you laugh.

sorry everyone else....there's an inside joke here:)

yes!

someone's stress is over tonight.

i found it.

http://www.myspace.com/dustinkensrue

the other songs aren't my favorite. but Please Come Home is pretty good.

friends forever.

a recent email from a dear friend since i was small, who i have so many precious memories with, and a prelude played by another friend last night, and reading blogs, and talking to people has renewed my passion for this song.

i can never thank God enough for people. and more than that, for friends.

Words: Deborah D. Smith
Music: Michael W. Smith

Packing up the dreams God planted
In the fertile soil of you
Can't believe the hopes He's granted
Means a chapter in your life is through
But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

With the faith and love God's given
Springing from the hope we know
We will pray the joy you'll live in
Is the strength that now you show

But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

concert.

it went well. very well indeed.

Sonia is close the the best director ever.


all praise to God for His indescribable gift of love.

christmas.

choir concert in 5 hours. i'm the pianist for the highschool choir.

oh dear.


i'm getting sick of Christmas and the holiday festivities haven't even begun.

oh dear.

dance with all your might.

i've decided i like dancing.

ie. square dancing


i'll teach you sometime. it's so much fun.

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and weekends are very nice.