7 Quick Takes on Friday (on Saturday)

1.  Reading:  Listening is an Act of Love -- check this out: http://storycorps.org        

Stephen and I had caught bits of this on NPR's Morning Edition.  The book is a selection of some of the interview recordings done by normal people in a sound studio/Airstream trailer.  The recordings are archived at the Library of Congress, so that the stories of everyday people will be remembered.  The book is really amazing, and as I was reading last night, I kept remarking to Stephen how many interesting, wonderful, good people are out in the world everywhere.

I'm thrilled to see that the mobile unit will be recording in Pensacola and Atlanta through March 13, though if it were inaccessible, I'd be off the hook and able to just enjoy everyone else's efforts.  I wonder if my mom would go for an interview.

2. Listening to:  Taylor Swift -- it's so cute.  Some ITunes reviewer wrote, "Unless you are a teen girl, you will not like this."  But I do.

3. Cooking: Nothing.  Eating out after Mass in Spartanburg w/ Stephen.  And the kids.  Always the kids.  

4. Oohing over this new collection at Target:  http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/news/liberty-of-london-for-target-the-home-collection-109389       I think I'd like the bike.  Or the piggy bank.

5.  Every house on our street is for sale, and ours is the most expensive...  If it sells, it will be miraculous, and we will know we were really meant to go. 

6.   The girls are quietly coloring.  Jacob & baby boy to be will probably never get to an age where they will color quietly, as they are boys.  I wonder.

7.  I've been on a ridiculous quest for a sale coat for Abigail for next year, and I've spent an inordinate amount of time searching the 'net for the elusive coat, thinking that this is better than dragging them around the mall.  Surely it must be better.