The Long Awaited Date

Several years ago, as I was driving through Allen, I saw Saxby's Coffee shop

 for the first time. As you know my love for coffee, trying this coffee shop 

immediately went down on my list of things to do "sometime". While telling 

Lizzy about it, I discovered that she too had been wanting to try it. 

Then, one day, I decided that, because I had never been there before, I wanted to try Schlotsky's. Interestingly, when I mentioned it to Lizzy, I found out that she too had been wanting to go there.

So we started planning a date in which we two would go to Saxbys and Schlotsky's. 

We planned to do it a bunch of times, like, the week before I left for Asia, or the first time 

I went out with Lizzy driving after she got her driving license.

It never worked out until yesterday - finally! It was Lizzy's last day of her first semester of college. She was going to take her final and I went along to run errands after class. She didn't tell you this in her post about studying, but she did GREAT in class and passed with an A! (Of course!)

So she came out ready to celebrate and we finally went to Saxbys. :-)

Coffee is coffee, and this was no disappointment. Mmmmm!

But to stay true to the fact that we're both students and busy girls, we took our coffee to Half-Priced Books in a fruitless search of text books.

And then, of course, after running several other errands, we made our lunch stop at Schlotsky's. :-)

THEN, we went to the high school parking lot where I taught Lizzy to drive my car that has a manual transmission. That was definitely an exciting adventure, but she did great. :-) 

"He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Rev. 22:20

Blessings!
~Faithy

Study, Study, Study....and More Study

I feel like that has been my life for the last 5 weeks. But it is so rewarding! :-) Today marked the end of my first semester of college. Wow! I can't believe it's gone by so fast. However, I'm not the only one that's been studying. Faith's joined me by starting an EMT class.

My stack of studying material

Faith's book - studying is made so much better when you have a cup of coffee (or several!) to go along with it.

Pumpkin decided it was the 'in thing' to study and of course had to join us.

Studying together

Yep...I really felt like this several times. Who doesn't at some point?

One of my class assignments was to read a research article, summarize it, and then write several pages explaining how it  correlated with class content. I was so relieved when it was done. :-)

I tried to start out with only a few of my books, but somehow, I always ended up needing all of them.

 Thinking back over the past 5 weeks, the verse that comes first to my mind is one found in 1 Samuel.
                  "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." 


God is Faithful!
Lizzy