The Mad Dash at the End of The Line...

There is a week and  a half (give or take a day or so) before I head off to my biannual church retreat, called Chrysalis (website is www.cichrysalis.org). And as always, Adrielle and I find ourselves way in over our heads. 

You can only experience Chrysalis once as a candidate (My flight was exactly two years ago), but you can come back and work team. This will be my fourth flight as team, and Adrielle's third. Part of what we do for the candidates, as team, is give them special little gifts all weekend. Last flight, Adrielle and I made pillows, bookcovers, and gave them silk flowers with bible verses. We worked up until the last minute, and this flight is starting to look the same. 

We are coloring beautiful posters to give to all the girls, and make butterfly coasters using those plastic beads you iron to melt. You know the ones I'm talking about. We still have a ton of coloring, ironing, painting, glittering, and gluing left to do before next weekend (not this weekend or this coming weekend, the one after). Needless to say we are a little frazzled. Luckily we have Adrielle's little sister and her neighbor helping us out. It takes a little bit of the pressure off, but all this craftiness plus work plus school plus taxes plus my mission stuff... needless to say I've been going a little crazy.