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September in Minneapolis

posted ‎‎Sep 12, 2008 8:20 AM‎‎ by Rev Lucille   [ updated ‎‎Sep 12, 2008 8:38 AM‎‎ ]

I have been terribly neglectful of my blog. I have skipped the whole month of August- so here is the recap. I came home to a beautiful new house and my new novice family. Rev. Joan, Estelle, June, Anna, Carolyn, and Christine has already moved in but the house was still in a state of transition. I was so excited to be a part of the moving in process that when I came home after a 7 hour drive I went straight into furniture moving. Christine and Anna didn’t have jobs yet so they were home to help me. We set up and decorated the whole living room and part of the basement. It felt great to get the space ready for class that night. Since then it has been a lot of work and a lot of love. A few days after I got home we had a fina unpaking day. I set the goal that there would be no box unoppened and that we would be totally unpacked. The bovices were a little doubtful and apprehensive but by the end of the day we were totally unpacked- even the basement! Our chapel was totally set up and ready for communion and prayers, and the house was nearly completely decorated. The novices were amazed at how much we got done.

Since then we have corrected some of the over-guilded decorating of our predesessors and we have painted one of the basement rooms and decorated it warmly for Mother Clare’s visit to out Center. The transformation of the room was amazing and very gratifying. Then we set out to remove a ¾ inch piece of ugly wall paper trim from the living room. It came off easily but we discovered a whole other set of problems. The wall was a beige color but when we took off the trim there was green paint underneath. We found some paint in the garage that was labeled living room and tried to cover the green paint we had exposed. Unfortunately, the paint in the garage was mislabeled and it was a paint that was a few shades darker. Rev Joan and I looked at the situation and mediation and both saw that we should repaint the whole living room even though we had only three weekdays until Mother Clare’s visit and the Seminar weekend. I bought the paint and everyone chipped in. We finished the whole room in one evening and part of the next day. The room in now a creamy light yellow and it feels so good. The beige color was not terrible and we probably would not have bothered changing it but when the new color went up it felt so right. I felt how blessed we were to have been encouraged through mishap to have the room be perfect.