Little Notes :)

Dear Churchill, thanks a million for staying quiet last night! 

I really needed the rest. :)

Your new sis

Dear Jack Frost, you've got an open invitation here in VA...just sayin'. 

Come and stay as long as you'd like!

Very Warmly...

Dear Latin II, you're a very fun and challenging subject 

and I have a feeling we'll be great chums.

Tu amo ;)

 Dear crazily untuned piano, I've gotta say, you're pretty pathetic.:P

Quite Flatly...

Dear camera, *sigh* Where to begin? I apologize for my

desertion and promise I'll pick you up this week.

Your's til the shutter closes..

Dear Jo-Jo, I was a lonely alto today.... Missing you lots and hope to see you soon! ♥

Lots of Love!

Dear hair, you really vex me. Please grow a tad more before needing to be trimmed again, 

or else you'll stay in a continual state of just-below-the-shoulderness. 

Closely attached...

Dear Winter, Where are you? Why can't I find you? 

Why have you gone a--wayyy? ;P

Ever Hopeful...

Dear Mail-lady, I'd love to get something interesting in the mail...

wanna put a good word in for me?

Thanks!

Dear Amazon Gift Card, you were a delightful surprise and 

have given me a lot of possibilites! Fun, fun, fun! xD

Still shopping...

Dear Lemon-pepper chicken, I will fix you for dinner soon, I promise!

Continually Craving...

Dear January, you sped by like lightening! I've had bunches of fun with you

and hope to enjoy your last week just as much!

Time flew by...

Dear brain, I could use some inspiration just about now...please respond a.s.a.p.! 

Densely...

Dear Abigail, thanks for the amazing weekend and the introduction to contra! :)

Pluffily...

~Sarah

{p.s. If you are a bit confused by the first letter, we have dubbed our new puppy Churchill Sherlock Lewis. C.S. Lewis. Goes by Churchill ;) }

The results are in! :)

 ............And the results are up! :) Here you go!

1. "Oh of course we live in the real world, as you say, where men of sense always reject a girl with a pretty face in favor of one with a well-informed mind!"
-Emma 2009 said by the heroine herself.
People who got this right: Joanna and Abigail

2. "This is...huge...Prison huge. You are gonna go to prison..you know that, right?" 
"Yeah, probably."
 "That would...bother most people."
-National Treaure, Ben and Riley 
People who got this right: Joanna and Abigail

3. "Percy. Fashionably late as usual."
 "Sink me, your highness. It was this demmed cravat. Simply refused to tie. I ask you. Sticking out like a pin-cushion." 
"I might have known it was something serious."
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy and the Duke of Wales
People who got this right: Joanna and Abigail

4. "Rob? Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. That's a naughty word. We never rob. We simply borrow a bit from those who can afford it." 
"Borrow? Boy are we in debt."
-Robin Hood, Robin and Little John
People who got this right: Joanna, Leanna, Abigail, Katie, Shaina and Stephanie

5. "I don' want de girl....you don' want de girl...PO-lice! Maybe she want de girl!"
Roman Holiday, the taxi driver :D
People who got this right: Abigail


6. "A mother's love holds fast and forever. A girl's love is like a puff of smoke--changes with every wind." 
-North and South, Mrs. Thornton
People who got this right: Joanna and Abigail

7. *Gasps as needle goes in* "That wasn't so bad."
"That was the penicillin." 
-Captain America, Steve and Dr. Erskine
People who got this right: Joanna, Abigail, and Stephanie

8.  "Roz, my tender, oozing blossom, you're looking fabulous today. Is that a new haircut? Tell me it's a new haircut. It's got to be a new haircut. New makeup? You had a lift? You had a tuck? You had something? Something has been inserted in in you that makes you look... Listen, I need a favor."
-People who got this right: Joanna, Leanna, Katie, Shaina, and Stephanie
Monster's Inc., Mike Wazowski


9. "This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he's trying to kill us. What a joke."
-Up, Mr. Frederickson
People who got this right: Abigail, Leanna, Katie, and Shaina


10. "Forgive me, your Majesty."
"Oh don't waste my time with flattery."
"Not to seem rude, but I wasn't actually talking to you."
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The fox and the White Witch
People who got this right: Joanna, Leanna, Katie, Shaina, Stephanie, Taylor Lynn


11. "As a matter of interest, will the time come when I read them first?"
"You'll enjoy this. She has a real flair for description."
-Young Victoria, Albert and adviser guy
People who got this right: Joanna, Abigail, and Stephanie


12. " 'Strange treasures in this fair world appear, strange all, and new to me.' That is a poem by Thomas Traherne and I have absolutely no idea what it's about. But, when I was small I was made to learn it by heart so I don't see why you shouldn't suffer too."
-Amazing Grace, Thomas Clarkson 
People who got this right: Abigail
                                                           And we tally up points........
***Extra points were awarded for each character specified in the quotes***

 The Winner is............

Miss Abigail with a total of 44 points!!! :) 

Next in line were Joanna with 40, Stephanie with 12, Katie and Shaina with 10, Leanna with 4, and Taylor Lynn with 2. 

Great job everyone, and sorry it took us so long to post the results! :P 

Hope you all have been doing well---I'm gonna be doing a "regular" post sometime soonish...

~Sarah

"O The Iniquities Of The Tongue!" :)

I thought that now, on the brink of World War IV, I should post about something that I learned very early on in this blogging-venture: "It is Excessively Easy To Be Misunderstood In Writing".
Yes. I was one of the prime instigators in that memorable World War III, better known as the Battle of Blue and Gray. ;) I only meant to have a fun debate. It turned...slightly sour. I had never really considered how much facial expressions assist people understanding eachother correctly. I mean, I have witnessed over and over again how sometimes I'll leave a comment on a blog, and it will be misunderstood because people can't see my mischievous sparkle in my eyes, or that I'm smiling. So I have learned to be really careful with what I put online, and how I phrase things. If you are being funnily sarcastic and saying, "I love broccoli", and I couldn't see your expression, I very well might believe you. Now, that is a weak example, and but you get my point? I think of the verse in the Bible: "Where many words are present, sin is not absent".
This wasn't supposed to be a preachy post, but an explanation, and, if you were caught in World War III, I didn't mean anything that might have offended you! So lets all be friends and happy and get along like bumps on a log! ;) Just kidding! Have a nice evening! -Rachel

In Which I am Thrown Into Disgrace

I feel like a murderer. My evil-minded cat, has eaten one of Anna's baby mice and came back for another! Anna has nursed these wee things back to health, has faithfully fed them every few hours with a dropper...in short, has been a mother to them. And my cat has ended it all for one of them, and perhaps the other too. Somehow, I have a strange feeling that my beast's behavior reflects upon me! ;) So, to clear myself, I have humbly made a lament for Anna. Here it is!

"A Lament For Anna's..mouseling"

"Your protege- a little mouse

Was not safe- even in your house.

A dark, designing beast (my cat)

Has killed your pet and that is that.

I blushed, I sighed, I dropped a tear

When first I did this story hear-

It cuts my heart like sharpest knife

To think my cat just took a life!

I did not do it, (this I know)

But I am sorry even so.

I do not know psychology ;)

So please take my apology.

And I will give a freezing shoulder

To my cat- least she grow bolder."

-Your humble sister: Rachel H.

I have not seen Anna yet this morning since the discovery was made, so I fly away to her to lay this appeasement at her feet and hope she doesn't hold any hard feeling towards me, the owner of the one who did a most horrid deed. -Rachel