To Nebraska and back

This past week has been filled with some beautiful times, as well as some difficult.  Lots of late nights studying.  Lots of early mornings trying to wake up and conquer the world, every once in a while with a warm cup of coffee from the cafeteria to keep up the initiative.  A nice wonderful chat with the housemate here and there, catching up with other friends, attempting to keep the head on straight and get through school...the "usual".  This past weekend was a little out of the ordinary for me though.  After a full evening of studying on Friday night a group of 7 of our Students for Life group traveled to Independence to help with a Run/Walk 5K for Life put on by the Women's Clinic from 7am-10am.  Considering that it was an earlier morning than most of us are used to at school, I was so grateful that we had the turn-out we had.  Our duty was to set up barricades along the path, redirect cars, and cheer on the runners/walkers/moms with baby strollers/Sisters (for real, jogging in full habit with pro-life tees on over...precious).

Then, that evening, after playing flute for the Family Weekend Mass (got to see my housemate's wonderful family!!  They're great!), Matt picked me up and we traveled up to Nebraska so that I could meet his grandma!  Apparently everybody cool comes from the same town, because the few other people I know well from Nebraska are from the same town his family is from.  Anywho, so we got to her house and Matt's mom stopped by to say hi as well.  She and Matt's dad and brother were in town for the big game (something tells me I'm going to have to get used to this whole cheering-for-Nebraska thing.  Praise the Lord Nebraska and K-State aren't in the same division/league/whatever [I'm obviously deficient in my football terminology at the moment] anymore).  In the morning Matt and I walked to the church, which was very pretty and quaint and reminded me of home a lot.  We spent most of the morning visiting with Matt's grandma and were surprised when Matt's family came and visited for a bit, since their plan had been to head to Omaha earlier that day.  After a wonderful lunch...er, dinner!...made by Matt's grandma and uncle we headed back to KC so I could study for my test today.

So, yes!  Big full wonderful weekend, and to top it off, today is St. Therese's feast day and October 5th is a SUPER special feast day that I'm SUPER looking forward to (St. Faustina!!!!!!!).  Have a blessed week!