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Thursday Randoms

Posted on June 13, 2013 | 4 comments

Like every other person in the world, we’ve been busy. That’s what happens at the end of the school year, when you work full time and also are packing up your house to move the first week in July. Throw in a round of IBS flare up and/or the stomach flu, camping one weekend and a family reunion and even the most prepared person might not find time to blog. But my fans are clamoring (read: my dad) for an update.

Here’s a recap of what I’ve been up to since last we met:

Watching The Voice… it’s pretty much the only new television I’ve been keeping up with this summer, though I also enjoy Rookie Blue when my husband doesn’t delete it from the DVR before I can watch it… we’ve also been cleaning off all the saved items on our DVR since we will be sending it back when we move. We watched 50/50 two weekends ago – pretty good movie. Genuinely funny, though still with Seth Rogan so at times inappropriate. We also rented Pitch Perfect last weekend and I really enjoyed it despite the two unnecessary puking scenes, but I love a musical (aside from Les Mis, which was not my favorite despite how much everyone loves it). We also went to see “Fast & Furious 6” for date night recently – it was even my pick because along with musicals and movies with dancing in them, I also love a mindless movie with fast cars (and Paul Walker).
We found a restaurant in town that actually makes its own tamales and tortillas – delicious. It is tiny and more suited for take out, but it is worth checking out. La Huasteca on Plainfield.
We closed on our new house – I don’t think I actually mentioned that here… we also ended up buying all the furniture from the list in my last post that weekend (thanks to an awesome warehouse sale at a local furniture store) so in the span of a few days we spent a whole lot of money with virtually nothing to show for it at this point since we don’t get possession of the house until the 30th and our furniture isn’t delivered until the first week in July. Here’s hoping it actually comes then or else the living room, kitchen and dining room are going to be quite empty. [Also, we are leaving the clawfoot tub, at our buyers request so I don’t have to fret about that.]
We’ve had some fun play dates with sweet friends – I feel so blessed by the people in our lives – my friends and my children’s friends.
Liam wrapped up first grade – which officially means we have a second grader (yipes) – and got a little verklempt on the last day of school when we pulled out of the parking lot. (I admit that it choked me up a little but then I remembered that it was the last time I’d be doing daily school drop off and pick up and I was happy once again – the bus stop for Liam’s new school is literally at the end of our driveway).
I signed up for the summer round of Biggest Blogging Loser – last time I came in third (though we were on vacation and my last email weigh-in never got sent so that’s according to my calculations and nothing official) and there is no glory (or money) for third place so I’m doing it again! Wish me luck!
The boys had their 6-month check at the dentist and BOTH of them had cavities. Sigh. We are admittedly a little lax lately in the toothbrushing department and apparently it DOES make a difference (yes – I really do know this, but sometimes things fall through the cracks). So we go back in another couple weeks for fillings. The dentist recommended that we get nitrous for Jack since during the cleaning and check up it was all she could do to get him to stay in the chair. I booked them for a morning appointment, thinking it would be a perfect thing for Simon to take them to but then realized I wasn’t about to miss the hilarity that was sure to ensue with Jack in nitrous oxide so I think we’ll make it a family affair. Winsies for everyone.
I had a perfect check up. Go me. At least one of us is good with their dental hygiene (Simon also had a cavity at his last check up).
The boys start swim lessons next week… like the intense, teach them to swim in four days kind of swim lessons. I cannot wait!
I received the following mis-directed texts this week which cracked me up:
- Text #1: That ugly [derogatory term we don’t use here, but made it clear they weren’t referring to my Australian husband] you with doesn’t deserve you. He be cheating with some b!tch. I tell you cause you some sweet girl and deserve a [same lovely term] that will treat you good.
- Text #2: He was pulling out of a hotel with some girl last Tuesday.
Firstly, what a lovely sentiment and text to receive from a “friend.” Second, the sender waited an entire week to send this tidbit of information, clearly they weren’t overly concerned. Hope it all works out because I never responded to tell them that they sent the texts to the wrong number.
I cooked nearly 4 pounds of bacon last night and you would have thought George would have been at my side, begging for every little morsel I might throw him, but there was also a thunder storm going on so my sad little dog was cowering upstairs, too afraid to venture down the stairs even for some bacon.
Speaking of bacon, it is delicious.
Liam had a play date with my coworker’s son last week to reacquaint them since they will be at daycare together one day a week this summer and she texted me about how talkative he is… and it is 100% true, the kid can (and will) talk to anyone, about anything, for as long as you will listen.
And then there is Jack who just never stops moving and does everything with the greatest intensity he can muster (which is great).
Re. above two bullets: my children are exhausting.
I’ve also been playing a wee bit of Candy Crush Saga and Words with Friends (read: every evening, until my eyelids can no longer stay open). I have a problem and I’m okay with that.
We are going camping this week (like for real, in a tent and not in someone’s backyard) (i.e., reason for the bacon cooking above). In theory, we are all looking forward to this weekend. The boys have no idea what to expect and I know they will love it. I grew up camping (be it in a pop-up camper) and also love it, but I never had to do all the prep work for those trips and lo, it is a lot of work. But the memories, it will be worth it!
I feel like there were many other funny stories to share about the boys… but this is what happens when I take two weeks to blog, I forget things. Sorry, dad.
My Nespresso maker came and I am dying to use it, but I am saving it for the new house. It is adorable though and it’s going to make yummy coffee…
Making this today, per Heidi’s recommendation: Blueberry Boy Bait. Also made these Party Pretzels and Get Thee Behind Me Satan Snack mix (recipe below) for camping

“Get Thee Behind Me, Satan” Sweet Snack Mix
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup lite corn syrup
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
melt all in sauce pan, boil 2 minutes
In large bowl mix together 18oz box of crispix cereal (can also use corn or rice chex), 3+ cups mini pretzels (optional, replace 1 cup pretzels with peanuts). Pour syrup over all and mix well. Put into large greased roasting pan (or two 9×13 pans). Bake @ 250 for about 1 hour, stirring every 15 min. Dump out on wax paper or foil to cool (slightly) then add M&M’s (optional). Eat until you can’t stand yourself!! Store in airtight container.

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Friday Randoms

Posted on May 31, 2013 | 4 comments

Happy Friday to you – aren’t the Fridays of 4-day weeks the best? Because everyone knows that it feels like a Thursday but really, it’s a Friday. And for me, because Jack is in daycare today, it feels like a Monday or a Wednesday (his normal daycare days) – imagine how happy I will be for tomorrow when it is *SURPRISE* Saturday! Plus my husband gets to come home around 7 tonight, which is just the best! It also means we will likely be asleep by 9… because we are old and pathetic (and also tired – a storm woke us up last night at 3:30).

Here’s a list of utter randomness:

Every weekday, multiple times a day, I drive by a house with a sign in the yard advertising “Holy Family Radio” and almost every time this makes me laugh because I picture Mary and Joseph as radio hosts on an AM station… typically along the lines of an SNL skit like the one with Alec Baldwin (YouTube it)
I totally missed this weekend coming up in my planning for the month of June… for some reason I didn’t count it so I thought we only had one free weekend to pack before we move, but really we have two – bonus!
Is it possible to be addicted to greek yogurt with honey? If so, I totally am. Sometimes I have it twice a day, which could be contributing to my intestinal issues of the gaseous variety (you know it’s bad when your 4-year-old comments on it). [Yes, I did just refer to flatulence on my blog, I’m sorry, Mom.]
I started working on my 40 before 40 list… I’d love your input if you’d like to share ideas of things you think I should put on my list.
Liam likes to tell me what he wants to be when he grows up, this changes on a weekly basis and this week’s random job is to be a storyteller, going around the country telling people stories about Jesus.
There is a server at a local restaurant and my friend Stef and I are convinced she hates us because we had her once and she wasn’t the nicest and we saw her again and she practically glared at us. We are nice people, she was just b!tchy.
We have an in-need-of-refinishing clawfoot tub in our garage which was meant to go in our master bathroom when we remodeled but we never got around to doing that. Do you think the new owner will notice if we leave it in the garage? When I bought the house, the old owner left a few pieces of furniture and I didn’t mind. I mean, who doesn’t want a random cast iron clawfoot tub?
Here’s a list of things I need to buy for the new house (at some point in time, perhaps not all at once):
- a couch for the living room (for grown ups, our current couch is going in the family room for kids)
- an oversized chair (per Simon’s request)
- a kitchen table (our current one is too small and seen better days, but will be perfect in the laundry room as a folding station)
- a dining room table (preferably before Thanksgiving when I will be hosting the family)
- an entertainment console for the living room
- Multiple area rugs
- Something for the entryway… a bench, a chair, something
- Deck furniture (def not right away, but maybe next summer)
Where would you go shopping for the above things?
Poor Jack got bit by another mosquito and has a swelled up ankle again but not nearly as bad as last time.
Liam has four more days of school next week and then summer break, I actually can’t wait because all the running around will be done and I won’t have to be in the school pick up line ever again (unless I want to be, which I don’t, ever).
I’m still sad to be leaving his current school but I know his new school is going to be just as awesome (I sure hope).
Still loving my new hair… and it still fits in a ponytail which is doubly awesome!
Will Smith can still be awesome:

If you haven’t seen it already, please take 15 minutes and watch this documentary made by Rainn Wilson’s production company, Soul Pancake, about a teenage boy who died last week from a rare type of bone cancer – he’s a pretty awesome person who leaves behind a sweet legacy (and some great music):

Here’s some new music I’ve been loving:

Clouds | Zach Sobiech

Brave | Sara Bareilles

Running for Cover | Ivan & Alyosha

Honey, Let Me Sing You a Song | Matt Hires

My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) | Fall Out Boy

Enjoy your weekend!!

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Thursday Randoms

Posted on May 9, 2013 | Leave a comment

I had a highly disturbing dream last night where we were at the new house and out of the woods and onto our deck slithered/crawled a disgusting looking creature that was a cross between a large lizard, with a snake-like neck and a round mouth filled with sharp teeth. I flipped myself up onto the railing (like a ninja – it was amazing) and someone else grabbed the thing and threw it into the woods while I shrieked, “What in the h*ll is that!?” And then I died… no, then I decided that we made a grave mistake and that we would have to move or else never, ever go on the deck again without a pitchfork.
Whatever you do, do not Google, “lizard snake head teeth” and look at the resulting images. You will be scarred for life. Shudder.
Why does it drive me crazy when Jack refers to his bodily functions as poopie and peepee? And why does he always have to announce that he needs to do these things at top volume? And more importantly, why did he decide to pee on the tire of Liam’s bike while it was parked in our garage (yes, that happened).
You know when you try a new food you’ve never had before and it is unlike anything you’ve ever had at all and it is so good? I had that happen at lunch yesterday. We tried a new-to-us Mediterranean place (Sheshco for the locals) and they give you these fresh-made mini pitas served with what they call garlic sauce. It’s roasted garlic whipped with olive oil and some other things and is the consistency of butter. I am in love. How did I never know you could whip olive oil into a butter-like form? I will not go as far as the server and say is is nearly healthy, but it is definitely delicious.
I reeked of garlic all day yesterday – my apologies to anyone I saw.
We opened a new checking account yesterday and I was adamant that my SSN was a certain number but it came back as close but not quite right when she entered it in. I ended up calling our payroll company to verify the number (I was one digit off) but I don’t think Simon will let me live it down that I got it wrong. Too many numbers. I can still tell you my 16-digit credit card number from when I lived in Chicago and worked for Einstein Bros. Bagels [I traveled a lot for work and had to enter it so many times online that I memorized it and still know it – at least I think I do, I guess I can’t be too certain]
Can I rant for a moment… our current house is in my name (because I bought it by myself) and on our current bank accounts, I am the primary account holder (because they were established long before I met Simon) yet, when setting up our new mortgage and bank accounts, the bank listed Simon as the primary person for everything. What the what? I’m not wrong to question why he was the automatic primary person when I’m the one who made contact, set everything up and had everything in my name. It’s not ridiculous that this ruffles my feathers a little, right? Fer dumb. I cannot talk about it at all without getting worked up. It just makes Simon laugh because he could care less if they listed me as the primary for everything (and yes, I know that it really doesn’t matter and actually his credit score is slightly better than mine – ironic since when we met he had ZERO credit score being that he was from out of the country; but it is the principle of it all).
Simon’s trying to figure out the companies we’re going to go with at the new house for cable/satellite and Internet and each evening he details to me the options and I make interested noises but really, it doesn’t matter so long as I don’t have to take care of it, it doesn’t cost worlds more than what we are currently paying and when I turn on the TV, it works and my stuff connects to the Internet. This must be how he feels when I tell him about menu options and grocery lists.
My calm parenting class must be working (aside from this morning when I shouted at the kids to be quiet on the way to school since they were both crying because the other one wasn’t listening to them) because the kids are actually excited to go and ask a few times a week if that night is the night for the class (or, the “be a better parent” class as they call it). In this week’s class I learned to really fear the teenage years. I joke, but the class is pretty great and it is showing me how we really need to get things right so that when we do have teenagers, they won’t be a couple years away from jail time due to poor parenting now.
I’ve been paying the children to pull dandelions – best idea I’ve had in a while. I can’t wait until they are better at other things like folding laundry and putting dishes in the dishwasher (the right away because you know there is a right way).
Last Thursday the men from our small group all went out to dinner and when they got home, each were asked by their respective wives what they talked about and each of them responded with something along the lines of, “I don’t know… stuff.” Conversely, the ladies got together at our house on Friday night and it was my turn to tell my “life story” the tidbits of what makes me who I am. Our husbands all laughed at this and said something along the lines of, “That will never happen with men.” So true.
Did you Google that phrase and see those images? I told you not to do it.

It’s Friday!

Posted on May 3, 2013 | 6 comments

Happy end of the week to you! After Simon got home from work last night I had a sad revelation, it was only Thursday night and not Friday night – a whole day of work was still between me and the weekend – ugh. Granted, it’s not hard work, but it’s also not sleeping in (ha, as if that happens, especially since we took the child lock off the door leading upstairs – now the kids can just run upstairs the minute they wake up and there’s nothing to stop them).

As usual, I have a bunch of thoughts swirling around in my head so you get a list… enjoy and feel free to share your own random thoughts in the comments.

While we were in Texas, Simon took Liam to tour the U.S.S. Lexington and came back with a slew of photos that all looked like the above – Liam standing in front of something, a slight smile on his face and hand shoved in his pockets. This is classic Liam – when he’s super excited about something, he clams up and acts super shy. Every birthday he opens presents that I know he has been desperately wanting and gives this timid reaction akin to what you would expect if he opened a package of underwear or a box of oatmeal. This baffles me because he’s normally pretty exuberant about little things in life but when it comes to things that you would think would get a big reaction, he looks just like the above picture… like eh, whatevs… this apathy drives me nuts.
Our house listing went “live” yesterday and we have an open house scheduled for Sunday afternoon. There’s nothing more we can do at this point. But I am seriously considering baking cookies and creating a coffee bar for the open house… you would totally want to buy a house where the owner was so hospitable, right? [I’m half joking.]
It’s very strange to see your house in photos that are meant to make it look its best, but realistically don’t look at all what it normally looks like. It’s like a hotel house.

Jack tripped stepping off the deck yesterday and I had my back turned so I didn’t see it happen but I heard his forehead smack the pavement and the sound was just the worst kind of sound. I feel like there is a special kind of miracle that happens when your kid falls down, because so often what you imagine the outcome is going to look like is not at all what happens and thankfully this time it was the case as well; he has a bump and scrape on his head but it could have been so much worse. It didn’t stop me from checking on him throughout the night and worrying about a brain bleed or cracked skull. Thank goodness for hard heads.
Liam had a friend over for a play date last night and it is clear that potty talk and faked bodily functions are just par for the course for all boys. Ugh. Why is saying underwear funny? Why, I ask you?
I make mixed CDs pretty much every month so we always have music we like to listen to at the ready when XM radio fails me (XM – why do you love Nickelback and Shawn Colvin?). I put a Matt Redman song on the last one and my kids regularly request the “God song” which made me realize I should just make a CD of all God songs and see what they do with that. Liam did tell me the other day that I should talk to him about God more often; noted, my pious little child. What songs would you add to an all-God-song CD?
We are going through the new house tomorrow with the current owners – is it strange that I really want them to like us? Is it possible they will like us so much they will leave their Bosch washer and dryer? A girl can dream.
I’m a little excited about our plans for the weekend, outside of the new house tour, tonight my small group ladies are coming over to hang out, eat good food and hear my “life” story; tomorrow night it’s a GNO with my college friends and Sunday night a little Cinco de Mayo fiesta with our small group.
In other news, I better heat up the elliptical.
Simon went out with the small group guys last night and it just makes me laugh because I asked what they talked about and he said, “I don’t know, stuff; lots of things.” This is pretty much the same answer I get from Liam every day when I ask how his day was… some things never change no matter how old you get.
I’ve happily discovered (thanks to food sampling) the large plain Fage Greek yogurt they have at our Costco tastes just as good with honey on it as the split cups I’ve been buying since Texas and is much cheaper to buy that way… I’m obsessed with it and have had it every morning with blueberries and raspberries.
Liam’s school is going a walk-a-thon today called Walk with the Dogs and it just occurred to me that it was named that not because parents were encouraged to come and bring their dogs to walk with the kids but because the school’s mascot is a bulldog. For someone who values common sense, sometimes mine is a little slow on the uptake.
Our neighbor said to me when he learned we were selling our house, that he was “always having to break in new neighbors” which makes me laugh because I have lived there for 10 years…
I feel like I’m in perpetual need of a nap, that is until I am in bed and trying to sleep. Then I can’t sleep and waste time pinning recipes and home decor ideas on Pinterest, searching for dining tables on Craigslist and playing Candy Crush Saga (addictive).
During bedtime prayers, Jack ALWAYS prays for the following people in this order: “And I love mommy, daddy, Liam, George, grandma and grandpa and Quinn (my niece)…” He will almost always add more family members, but always starts with those seven first. So, Quinn, you have made quite an impression…
The boys’ goldfish are still alive.

Happy weekend-ing, y’all! Hope you have a great one!

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Wednesday Musings

Posted on April 17, 2013 | 8 comments

I tried to create a cute visual image for you here but it won’t show up and I’m probably the only one who cares about it being there so I’m going to stop getting frustrated with technology, wasting my time with the graphic and procrastinating about writing this blog post and just do it already. You are welcome. And I wonder why it takes Liam 30 minutes to think of something to say in his journal at school… I believe he cames my his ability (or inability) to protrastinate naturally.

Speaking of Liam, he’s been obsessed with heaven, who goes to heaven and good vs. evil lately, but only wants to talk about it when we are riding in the car. So we spend many car rides having theological discussions which have included the topics of:
- Why people choose to do bad (my answer: they listen to Satan rather than God; also, the bad people he references are always ‘robbers’ so I’m sort of glad that’s the worst he can think of);
- Do bad people go to heaven (yes, if they believe Jesus died for them on the cross);
- Why don’t bad people do bad things in heaven like they did on earth and what happens if they do (they will only do good things in heaven because that’s all we will want to do when we are with God and we won’t be able to hear Satan’s voice there; also, on earth we have choices but in heaven we will just choose God [my kids don’t settle for an ‘I don’t know’ answer so I try my best to explain it in terms they understand without being too far off base]);
- And then Liam spends some time determining how “bad” he is – he’s decided he is 100% good and 1% bad (we’ll work on math at a later date) and that Jack is about 50/50 (I do not argue the validity of his conclusions because it seems pointless to pinpoint exactly what percentage bad they are ;)).
Other conversations that have been had:
- Liam: What does radioactive mean? [we were listening to “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons]
  Me: (pulling from some ancient factoid I might have about radioactivity) When something has a chemical in it that makes it so it might explode at any minute.
  Liam: Why is that guy saying he is radioactive?
  Me: Because he is so worked up or excited about something that he’s shaking and feels like he might explode.
  Liam: I feel like I’m radioactive sometimes.
  Me: Oh yeah, when is that? (Thinking he might say when he gets mad at his brother and shakes with anger.)
  Liam: Like when I have to poop and I’m trying really hard to go.
- [we have had previous discussions about how babies are born, I have always left it as “doctors take babies out of a special opening” and “what do you think?”]
  Liam: I don’t think the doctor reaches down the mommy’s throat and takes the baby out.
  Jack and Liam: So, how does the doctor get the baby out of a mommy’s tummy?
  Me: (sigh) Remember, the mommy has a special opening that the baby comes out of.
  Liam: But where exactly is it?
  Jack: Yeah, where is it?
  Me: (here it goes) You know how boys and girls have different private parts? Well, the baby comes out of the mommy’s private parts.
  Liam: You mean her ‘china’?
  Me: Yes
  Jack: Her ‘china,’ that’s just silly.
  Me: Indeed.
If it weren’t for my kids or the gym next door, I’d have no fun antecdotes to share with you. Heard through the wall lately:
- After a string of cursing and yelling that would make a big, muscled man cry, “Dammit, Debbie, just pull it together.” Poor Debbie (also comical to me, because of all the names, Debbie would have been the least likely one for me to have chosen as the person not performing)
- “Water. Fat. Muscle. These are the only things you can gain. What are you gaining? Why would you eat salt?!” [This is now what I think of any time I go to put salt on something and then I stop myself, thank you Tom, the trainer.]
- “Don’t tell me you haven’t heard this here before: Chicken. Fish. Egg. Beef. Tofu. Greek Yogurt. You can’t tell me there isn’t something there you would eat!? Why aren’t you eating protein every meal!?” [This made me want to go and shake the woman he was talking to because why kind of whiny adult won’t just tell her trainer that she will eat a protein and insists that there is none that she likes?]
- Copious amounts of grunting and groaning, some cheering and swearing.
On a related note: To the woman who was changing her clothes in front of the bathroom sink when I left the stall (please note, I leave the LARGE handicapped stall free as it is double-sized so a person can change in there and not even come close to touching the toilet) and who apologized to me for all her groaning while she was changing because she had such a killer workout (I know, I heard), I’m pretty sure that you should have been been apologizing for being undressed from the waist up while standing in a PUBLIC restroom. I mean, really, I just don’t understand people.
On another related note: To the other woman who was actually using the handicapped stall to change in, I applaud your discretion; well, until you answered your cell phone while you were still in the stall and then proceeded to talk to who I assume to be a client from what I could hear. I’m not sorry that I flushed the toilet while you were in there because I’m quite certain that could have been a foreseen danger of answering your phone in a PUBLIC restroom and then talking for longer than 2 minutes.
We watch E! almost every night after Simon gets home from work and they are over-promoters of their upcoming new shows and sadly they have a reality show with Ryan Lochte coming up and EVERY time I hear him say that stupid thing he says, “Jeh-yeah” or whatever, it makes me watch to punch him in the face. He is just so stupid. So stupid.
I signed up very last minute for a parenting workshop that will meet every Tuesday night for the next six weeks. It’s called “Calm Parent: a total transformation.” And at the very least I feel like I’ll feel better knowing other people are in the same boat as I am but I am hopeful I will learn something to help me go back to how I used to be, pre-two-kids and evening single parenting.
I spent 4 hours last weekend cleaning, sorting and packing the boys’ room in an effort to declutter. I packed many a box up and when the realtor came, her advice was to pack 50% more toys. Sigh. But my house does look fabulous and within the month we will have it on the market. (yikes)
This weekend we paint, pack and clean some more.
Only two more MOPS meetings for this year… sad times. But soon it will be summer and I’ll be able to have more get togethers with friends! I miss play dates, but when Liam doesn’t get out of school until 3:45 and we’re not home until 4:15 or so and then you have homework and activities (and we do the minimum for activies), it doesn’t leave much free time for friends. Hopefully next year we will live in a neighborhood and/or will be closer to school friends.
My new favorite snack is Fage 0% Greek Yogurt with Honey – it is so delicious. I still love my Muller with honeyed apricot, but I might like this more. SO good. Try it, you’ll like it. The fruit ones are also good if you don’t like honey.
I ordered some vitamins from Vitacost and decided to try their whey protein powder, ordering the smallest size and then found it was BOGO and it automatically added a second one to my cart for free, which was fine. Until it came and the containers are HUGE… it’s a month’s supply in each one and oh my, they are currently taking up real estate on half my stove. Simon came home and said, “What’s with the…” And I just stopped him and said, “Don’t even start.”
We watched “The Five Year Engagement” over the weekend – it was cute and funny. We laughed out loud many times. It’s also totally predictable, but whatever.
Our 8-year anniversary is coming up… we’re almost past the 7-year-itch thing, if you believe in that (I believe that it holds some statistical merit).
I can’t write something without saying something about what happened in Boston on Monday, but I really don’t want to talk about it. Evil sucks. Bad people who do vile things more than suck. I wish things like this didn’t have to happen and didn’t ever happen, but they do. And so we pray and hope for something better and have confidence that good will win. That God is going to win.
This video has been linked to multiple times in my FB feed, but in case you haven’t seen it or haven’t taken 3 minutes to watch it, please do, it’s worth the watch and the reminder. Well done, Dove!
My current fave song: “Cups” by Anna Kendrick (yes, the actress) from the movie “Pitch Perfect” more fave music coming soon… maybe tomorrow 😉
Worth reading:
- Judgements on Grief by Heather Spohr
- My friend, Kim’s trip to Haiti to see her son, Christian, again: start with Part One.
- Common reactions to my limb difference and what I am thinking by Caitlin [also, some bad-a$$ photos on espn.com of Nick Newell, definitely someone for Jack to look up to] Thanks to the Lucky Fin Project for spreading the love.
- Spring Break in Zion by Secret Agent Josephine (a.k.a., Brenda) Gorgeous pics and a beautiful tribute to navigating tricky waters and moving forward.