{Weekend Away}

listening to: Chopin – Fantasie Impromptu #4 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 66

reading: The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards

reading (with husband): Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas

sipping: Seattles Best Level 3 brew

smelling: Autumn Festival Yankee Candle 

touching: fluffy white Down pillow

feeling: happy.

It has been a quiet and relaxing evening at the Race Street house. We had a great weekend trip to Chicago with Mark and Lauren to celebrate the marriage of our friends, Steph and Alex Mrakovich. The wedding was tasteful, the Bride was stunning, and the groom never looked happier. I think Jordan and I were so excited to get out of Marion for a few days and enjoy time with family and friends in a new setting. We shopped, ate a homemade meal, went on a hay ride, danced until we sweat through our clothes, and created numerous inside jokes with our brother and sis. Let me just say that road tripping through the middle of the night is one of the more entertaining and hilarious things I have participated in.

And now it's time for a new week. Fall break will be here before we know it.

Hunger Games

"Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death - televised for all of Panem to see.

Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love."




Jordan and I have been reading the new popular series The Hunger Games, and we love it. Actually, we spent an entire evening of our honeymoon devouring the books. Seriously, this story is fascinating and it's nearly impossible to put the books down once you get going.

And guess what?
Lionsgate is making a movie. To be released in March of 2012. I can't wait!! (they just better not screw it up).

Library in the woods

The library I have always wanted is this one.
The mystery of the woods is my favorite place to go exploring, getting lost in my imagination and childhood memories. I can't think of a better place to sit and read.









This private library is located in Olivebridge, New York. Designed by Peter Gluck and Partners Architects.