This is the week that I turn a year older and wiser! I've already had one birthday party. Three of our Thursday morning breakfast group has birthdays in July so we partied on Saturday night at another of the group's house. It was fun to get together in the evening.
I'm still doing doggie duty and going out with them several times a day. I am looking at secure pet doors -- although at the moment we still don't have a fence.
At church we are having a sermon series on the Beattitudes. So far we have had three of the sermons and they are pretty good. Today's was "blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth". These are pretty good sermons and I am learning from them. After church, we have breakfast in the big room with others from church and visit. One of the things that the pastor mentioned earlier on was that the Beattitudes aren't a to do list -- they are about blessings that we have from God. In other words to be meek is a gift. So much of what the Bible teaches us goes against what the world teaches us. i.e. the world teaches us that we need to win at any cost. The bible tells us that we have already won -- Jesus did that for us. (nuf preaching).
I realize that I have a year before I have to buy dorm stuff again -- but I am already getting choked up about dd leaving in a year. I don't cry or anything -- I just think about it as I walk through Linens n Things, etc. In a couple months though, they will take all the dorm signs down and put up Christmas decorations. I'm very proud that my kids are sure enough about themselves to leave home and venture out!
Oh another thing that is totally unfair that I had forgotten until dd got home from her conference in DC. She had to wear professional clothes for part of the conference so we bought her a suit from Dillards. Well, she came home and mentioned how unfair it is that guy's suits have an inside pocket and women's suits don't. I totally agree! Why can't we have an inside pocket -- even if they have to make it a little lower due to pleats or whatever.
Also...why does our cat like to catch geckos?
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I'm so glad it's not just me! Misery loves company, you know!
As Stephen was leaving after this last visit I was really struggling with it. And to make matters worse, Mitchell graduates this year and will leave for college around the time Stephen gets back from Iraq. But he won't be back home, he'll have his own place still.
And meanwhile my baby is starting to scoot and crawl way too soon.
They all grow up soooooo fast!
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