It’s the first Friday of September! Autumn is one day closer. 🙂 That’s one blessing. I’m sharing a few more with Susanne and friends at Living to Tell the Story.
1. The Knoxville Asian Festival. I’ve wanted to go to this for ages, but we never made it til this year. Jason, Mittu, and Timothy went last year, and Timothy really enjoyed the Matsuriza Drum group from Disney World. So we especially wanted to see them this year. I would have loved to see so many more of the performing groups, but performances ran all day from about 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and we couldn’t stay for all.
I thought it was funny that with their beautiful outfits and fans, these dancers wore white socks and sneakers.
There were booths and stands all over World’s Fair Park, some selling Asian food and wares, some selling nothing that had to do with the Orient. 🙂 It was so hot and humid that day, we just couldn’t look around much and stay for longer than we did. But we enjoyed what we did experience.
2. A voice text from Timothy asking if they could come over and hang out one evening. It’s lovely knowing your grandchild wants to spend time with you.
3. Clearing out a few things. I have a giveaway box where I stash things to donate to the thrift store, then deliver them when the box is full. That time was coming, so I also went through some old boxes in my closet. To walk into my closet, you wouldn’t notice anything different. But I know the back corner was cleaned up and sorted through, and that feels good.
4. Finding $20 unexpectedly. One of the giveaway items was a purse that was cute, but too small for me. I had already cleaned it out, I thought. But I looked through all the pockets and crevices again, and found a wad of receipts and coupons. . . and a $20 bill!
That was fun in itself. But just that morning I was looking over the list of things we were going to get our youngest son for his birthday in a few weeks. (I can say this because I don’t think he reads my blog. 🙂 ) I wanted to get him one more item than we had discussed, which was $20. Finding $20 seemed like the go-ahead to get the item.
5. Timothy at Kid’s Club. Our church has a kid’s club something like Awanas, but with a curriculum written by one of the men in the church. Timothy went this week, the first time he’s gone to something like that, and had a great time.
That’s our week. How was yours?
Stray Thoughts 
One of my favorites this week was doing some cleaning out, too. I didn’t find any money though! lol
Such good stuff! I love that Timothy wanted to come over. Yes, I too love the good feeling of even a bit of downsizing. I’m excited for cooler weather too. Asian Festival looks neat. I’ve seen the drummers at Epcot and they were really good! There’s a Korean Festival here soon that I’d like to visit.
The Asian festival sounds like it was fun, especially all the food. Yum!
Don’t you just love finding forgotten money? And $20 is a good chunk. I’m sure your son will love his present.
So glad Timothy is enjoying Kids’ Club!
The Asian festival looks delightful – so colorful! I’ve been cleaning out a few corners here and there lately too, and even though Jeff may not notice some of it, I do. 🙂
It’s a true gift when our granchildren choose to spend time with us, isn’t it?
The festival looked fun and it’s always great to spend time with grandkids.
You’ve got a sweet one in that Timothy 🙂
The Asian music festival looks like a lot of fun and variety. Imagine how hot the performers were in their outfits.
Found money is fun, isn’t it? Glad you got a corner of your world tidied up.