Monday, April 4, 2011

Back to Reality

Well this week we went back to reality. We just finished Averie's spring break and Danton's was the week before. I loved both of there breaks. I really tried to not overfill them and focus on really enjoying them. I think they both needed the breaks I know I sure did. Several months ago Danton was made aware of a John Eldredge retreat being offered in the Winter Park area. The entrance was a lottery system and his name was chosen. The retreat was last Thursday through Sunday. He had an absolutely amazing time and was so glad he was able to go.

I am realizing that my little girl is also growing up so quickly. Yesterday she and her dad were reading about Solomon and this was her question to him. Daddy, Why did Solomon not marry good wives...did he just like there good looks. Needless to say her dad was a little caught off guard. Today we were driving and an "older" lady cut me off and she told me that I can't get upset at her because she is old, and old people don't know how to drive any different. She told me they can only look forward. I don't know where she gets some of her stuff. The week before her spring break her class went to a local dinner theater for a presentation of Rapunzel. It is a program geared for school aged kids, so there were several other schools there. I was really hoping to be chosen as a volunteer to go because I knew this would right up her alley, but unfortunately I was not chosen. While they were there she was the only one from her school to be chosen to go up on stage to dance and shake her maracas!!! Here is a picture another mom sent me!


Lincoln keeps me as busy as ever. I don't know where he gets all his energy. But when he isn't all over the place he wants to be carried and cuddled. He is really trying to communicate with us and is getting better by the day, if you say something he will often repeat it. He does have some good tempers though when he doesn't or can't get his point across, he is a VERY particular little boy. He loves to talk about things that are "noisy"... Papa's shop is very noisy! One of his other new words is "Um" when you ask him about something he just looks at you and says "Um"! He loves to talk about his Papa and nanny. When we are driving and get close to there house he gets SO excited. He loves his Nanny but that little boy LOVES his Papa! I really think he thinks his Papa hung the moon. I could list all his new words and his new favorite things but at this point we would be writing so many. He is growing up.

I have joined another book club and absolutely love it. I have enjoyed the books that have been chosen. Some of them have been out for a while but it is never to late to read a good book. I have also enjoyed the women I have been able to meet. One of my focuses this year is to get out and meet some good people. You really need to have good people in your life and to find good quality people it takes time but you don't find them if you don't put yourself out there.

This really has nothing to do with my post it is just an observation from me to you. When you are parked behind a car and they don't do exactly what you are WANTING them to do...you really don't need to honk your horn. I ask you to do two things before you lay on your horn. Simply count to 5 and ask yourself if it's really worth it and secondly, consider that it may be a mom who is desperately trying to quickly help out her kids before the light turns green. Because those 5 seconds of helping them really does make the ride in the car a lot nicer for the mom in it.

If you remember reading my post from a while back about "things you might not know about me" you will remember reading that my birthday is next week. I absolutely love my birthday and I wish I had more of them in a year!!! Final week countdown starts tomorrow!!! Hopefully I will get some picture of me and kiddos and post them next week.