{"id":3148,"date":"2014-05-13T22:32:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T03:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2014-05-13T22:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T03:32:04","slug":"all-the-news-in-one-little-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/3148","title":{"rendered":"All the news, in one little post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"House of Worship at sunset yesterday. Perfect. #latergram by Sholeh Munion, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/14017236272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7437\/14017236272_5fb4357a12_m.jpg\" alt=\"House of Worship at sunset yesterday. Perfect. #latergram\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>There are some amazing things happening at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nineteenmonths.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nineteen Months<\/a>, since my friend Caitlin took over as Writing Editor and we changed up a lot of stuff, including the site design. I&#8217;m so happy with the direction that it is going and the talented\u00c2\u00a0contributors that we have.<\/p>\n<p>I have a new niece in my husband&#8217;s family, and I&#8217;m pretty much wanting to see her all the time but my current life schedule doesn&#8217;t really allow it. Newborns are just so delicious!<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, Shea and I were in the process of getting consent from our parents to be married, and I cannot believe time has gone by so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I was recently elected Treasurer of our local community and am still trying to figure out all the details. Online banking makes a lot of things easier, but it is still a tough job!<\/p>\n<p>My youth group of young ladies started Ruhi Book 4 a few weeks ago, and I am so impressed with their abilities, their mature questions, their bravery to take on projects even when they don&#8217;t know how to do everything. I feel so lucky to be able to spend time with them!<\/p>\n<p>There are the usual friends leaving Chicago (waah!), the friends getting married, having babies, traveling, etc. The winter has left us acting like hermits and I think we&#8217;re all still trying to crawl out from under the rocks we were buried under.<\/p>\n<p>I have been spending a lot of time reading about the event industry, for various reasons, and of course am immersed in it every day at work, so I&#8217;m always in &#8220;event mode&#8221;, which is a bit of a shift for me in some ways. I love the networking events, learning about the best new way to set a room, or what hotels are being built in cities. I want to write more about this subject here (without pulling work into it too much), because I feel that so much of what we do is hidden. Most attendees don&#8217;t have any idea what it takes to put a meeting together, so it seems that educating at least the small audience of this blog may assist with some of the misconceptions or lack of knowledge about the meetings world.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Decor for the Ridvan celebration in Wilmette. It was wonderful. by Sholeh Munion, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/14094233724\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7376\/14094233724_31a5052df8_q.jpg\" alt=\"Decor for the Ridvan celebration in Wilmette. It was wonderful.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Wilmette Baha&#8217;i community recently put on a Ridvan Holy Day celebration and we had a lot of people from surrounding communities show up. It had been a while since we hosted something like this and it was so sweet. The children captained little &#8220;boats&#8221; they made out of cardboard, ferrying people across the &#8220;river&#8221; that they drew in chalk on the sidewalk outside, and the inside of the Baha&#8217;i Home was made to be a &#8220;tent&#8221; with roses everywhere. Such creative and talented people in our community! It was fun to be a part of the process, but it reminded me why I do event logistics and not event decor! The decor part seems more challenging to me than logistics for some reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some amazing things happening at Nineteen Months, since my friend Caitlin took over as Writing Editor and we changed up a lot of stuff, including the site design. 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