his first date

MORP 2011

this made me feel very, very, very old..........

my weekend

watched a baseball game in the freezing cold and even snow

it was worth watching it in the snow

my boy played varsity for the first time

it was awesome

they lost but it was still awesome

took care of my sick, really sick jess

let lily make the biggest fort (mess) in the basement with her friends

rushed to church

rushed to work

rushed to a birthday party

sent my little boy off to disneyland

oh how i wish i went with him

helped clean out b's closet

and laughed when he tried on all the clothes that i was sure would still fit

and of course didn't

watched a great movie with popcorn and LOTS of butter

it was a good weekend

now it's monday

spring break can't come soon enough

eye of the storm

i taught a lesson on choosing faith on sunday. i prepared my lesson way ahead of time and felt pretty good about the whole thing. except for the fact that i get ridiculously nervous. i hope that part goes away or gets better. anyway i taught about choosing faith over everything else. choose faith over fear, choose faith over doubt, choose faith over the unknown or unseen and choose faith over pessimism. it is time for me to practice what i preach. i write this so that maybe someday my kids or grandkids will read this and learn something from it. something has happened that is unfair and will make life a little challenging for us this year. i am mad about it and frustrated, but that gets me nowhere. i heard that in life we will encounter storms. some storms will be small and some will be big. but during big storms there is the eye of the storm. that is where it is peaceful and calm. i must choose faith to get to the eye of the storm and realize that somethings are out of our control and someone else is in charge. i still will be in the storm but i will not let the storm inside of me.

that was kind of deep but i loved that analogy.

and i cried

brendan got asked to his first dance

and i cried

i have no idea what that is all about

but when lily brought this stuff into the kitchen

i knew what it was

abby is her name

abby is taking my big boy on his first date, first dance whatever you want to call it

they do grow up way too fast

but this is really kind of fun and exciting

and he tried to down play all of it

but i am his mom and i know him quite well

and he was excited.

who knew

who knew black electrical tape and the halloween box could be so fun on a lazy sunday afternoon.