We’re getting ready to start a Progressive Dinner with lifeSOURCE. We’ll visit 4 homes for different meals – appetizers, salad, main course and desserts. I am blessed by the hospitality and generosity of the parents of those who call lifeSOURCE their own. We call them up, ask them if we can invite ourselves over for a part of a meal, and they, in their love for their children, say “sure!” I really enjoy these moments when we spend time with our friends’ parents. Tonight should be great fun!
Now what does Xanadu have to with it? well, we decided to have a theme night with our Progressive Dinner, unknown to our hosts though. We are dressing like kids. yep, kids. Our outfits should be hilarious. I feel like a complete freak. I so badly just want to go throw on jeans and wash my face, and say I’m too chicken to see this through. But it’s too late. People should be here any moment as begin our journey.

Again, what does Xanadu have to do with it? well, I was a kid in the 80’s. the glorious big hair 80’s. so my outfit reflects some of those influences, as does my makeup choice. and I will confess here and now that I have a strong love and devotion to the movie “Xanadu.” Most of you have never heard of it, let alone seen it. But I have watched it costless times, and still find myself singing along to all of it. I even have moments where I will dance some of the choreographed moves. My favorite song from Xanadu is “Don’t Walk Away”. I even bought it for my mp3 player. I didn’t get it to hear it today. But to get me in the mood for our party, I selected xmradios’s 80’s on 8. I don’t have control of the songs, but I at least got the right era. and so, I heard “Xanadu” just before I started getting ready, and that really put me in the mood to be silly.

and then, I heard it while I was in another room – “Spring Love” by Stevie B. Here’s part of the chorus:
Spring Love come back to me
I need you and I want you baby
Spring love come back to me
I really need you
I gotta have you baby
Springtime love is on my mind and I won’t forget
The way we shared the way we cared
And I don’t regret it

Yes, I know it’s super-cheesy. Jon thinks the song is stupid. He really wanted it to be over. I relished every moment of it! (Oh Danette, I thought of you. Can you hear the song?) It’s one of those songs that I used to listen to over and over and over.

Well, our friends are about to arrive. Gotta go and be a small kid! and enjoy checking out my hubby’s legs in his cutoff jeans…

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted here, but I thought, why not start the new year with a fun post. So today I’m introducing to you all Walter Lee.Walter Lee joined us on Saturday, January 20th. He was built/stuffed/created at Build-A-Bear during a birthday outing for our friend Lark. Jon made him just for me, with the help of Evan, a younger friend from church. While it felt a little strange to be a grown-up in the store building our own bears (not for little people we know), I think it really was a nice time. It definitely is something kids enjoy, so we thought, why not allow ourselves the time to be big kids and make our own stuffed animals too!

Here’s a pic of Walter getting his first bath/grooming experience. Evan did a great job prepping him for his new outfit – a genuine Chicago Bears sweatshirt, in honor of the upcoming NFC Championship. (While Jon knows I am a Colts fan, and would have liked the cute little Colts cheerleader outfit on a different animal, I totally LOVE Walter Lee because I am a Bears fan as well, and I LOVE my husband and his generosity to me.)

Since today is about Walter Lee, I won’t take more time to tell about the rest of Lark’s birthday fun. Maybe in a future post!