Ketchup

It has been hard to post lately because of the springtime confluence of commitments, so time for... CATCH UP BULLETS.

• We had an intense fund raiser for Andy's Japan group: Butter Braids, delivered to you in time for Easter.
• Our family sold about 90.
• That's a mistake if you don't have your own walk-in freezer.
• ...which we do not.
  
• However, 48 hours later, they are all delivered- in time for Easter.
  
• The four borrowed coolers are NOT returned.
• We are in a stage right now in which we really can't look away from the adolescent for long. Children FOR SURE need you more than ever at this age- and the stakes are pretty high.
  
• Without going into a LOT of detail, let's just say that we've consulted a bunch of people lately, and paid some of them.
• He's not in THAT kind of trouble. Just the identity crisis kind of trouble.
  
• Um, did I mention that we spent last weekend at an ANIME CONVENTION?
  
• Because we did, and it's a lot like a Star Trek convention, except that all of the whack-jobs are screaming adolescents.
• Yea, and speaking of identity crisis? Because these screaming adolescents think that they are animated pseudo-asian cartoon characters with tails. Not kidding.
• Um, and I purposely didn't call them teenagers. Because yes, someone can be an adolescent at say age 25. Or 30.
  
• No, it wasn't super fun.
  
• However, the organizers did donate $500 to Andy's youth group.
• My teammate and I "donated" a tea party for our school's raffle. We let the little girl invite three of her friends.
  
• We had tea, juice, cream puffs, cucumber sandwiches, nuts, candies, cookies and sesame bread sticks.
  
• I went to a thrift store and bought some of those old-fashioned glass snack sets that ladies' groups and churches used to use. They're oval-shaped glass plates with little inset rims for their matching glass tea cups. VERY nostalgic.
• Do you have any candy? Because I don't have any here. And I have to eat some, like, every 20 minutes or so.