Which brings me to last week. Technically, this story starts four weeks ago, so let's go back that far. I'm sitting in my recliner, with the windows open. It's the beginning of April. It's been 90 degrees every day for the past three days, and the weather forecast says it will stay in the 90s for the foreseeable future. We have a friend who has a daughter who shares friends with EJ, and in the past we have accidentally scheduled birthday parties on the same day, which turned out quite disappointing for the kid whose mom was a little slow on the invitations. (Me. That would be me.) So this year, I thought I would get ahead of the curve and invite said mutual friends early. Like, a month early. The only problem being...I can't see the weather that far ahead. But I thought, better make plans now than not. Brilliant reasoning, I know.
I've been a Christian for quite a while. Let's just say over twenty years. (Wow. That's a long time, and now I feel old!) So I'm no dummy when it comes to God's ways being higher than mine, and how I'm not supposed to question, just obediently go along with His plans. But being a sinner, that is really hard. You know what I mean?! Maybe in twenty more years...but I am NOT there yet.
Which brings me to last week. Technically, this story starts four weeks ago, so let's go back that far. I'm sitting in my recliner, with the windows open. It's the beginning of April. It's been 90 degrees every day for the past three days, and the weather forecast says it will stay in the 90s for the foreseeable future. We have a friend who has a daughter who shares friends with EJ, and in the past we have accidentally scheduled birthday parties on the same day, which turned out quite disappointing for the kid whose mom was a little slow on the invitations. (Me. That would be me.) So this year, I thought I would get ahead of the curve and invite said mutual friends early. Like, a month early. The only problem being...I can't see the weather that far ahead. But I thought, better make plans now than not. Brilliant reasoning, I know.
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Twice this week, we visited the botanical gardens. The first time, we "hiked" through the Alabama woodlands and the Japanese gardens.
We had just been to the Botanical Gardens two days ago, but the Japan and America Society of Alabama put on a concert, so we headed back over there today. An Albanian man played a Japanese flute called shakuhachi, and a Japanese lady played a keyboard with synthesizer. So many awesome things happened that, even if this event hadn't been free, I would have still gone. First up, would you look at where Choko San is from!!! It's where I grew up!!! (I secretly wondered if she was "Ko Chan" we would see every day walking to work, but I had no idea how to phrase that to ask.)
...even when it's a good change. I couldn't list all the negative things about living in our house in Tarrant. It was a dangerous neighborhood. The driveway was too steep. We couldn't walk to check the mail. We couldn't walk anywhere. The front steps had fallen off the house. The main shower leaked into the downstairs laundry room. The floor around the main toilet was sinking into the laundry room. Speaking of the laundry room, the washer overflowed about every other month, creating a miniature Nile River through the room toward the basement. The garage door spring was broken, meaning I had to enter and exit through the kitchen sliding door, whose lock was broken and had to be "locked" with a bar from the inside only. I could go on. Literally. There's a whole lot more. But I'm sure you get the picture, and I don't want to bore you.
This morning we visited the planetarium at a local college. They had a "homeschool day" where they showed a short video and the director went through a slide show of the solar system. We ran into a friend from a recent camp-out. The show was like glorified Google Earth with a little more zooming capabilities, with some evolution sprinkled throughout. But it was fun to spend time with friends, anyway. And we got to see the brand-new footage of Mars and Pluto.
Today EJ's Trail Life group (a Christian alternative to Boy Scouts) went to Tannehill Park. I have never been, and after hearing my husband talk about all his amazing trips there as a boy, I was pretty bummed about not being able to go today. But then they came home and he told me all about it and suddenly I wasn't so bummed anymore. Turns out it's a lot less kid-friendly now a days, with a lot of the "cool" stuff (and tourist-y things) gone. At least EJ will never experience the disappointment. Judging by these pictures, I think he had a good enough time!
This year the theme for our VBS was "Un-Frozen". Pirates versus Princesses. The team chants were hilarious. The pirates said they were gonna make the girls walk the plank, and the princesses told the boys to open up and eat snow. I didn't go the first three days, and out of ALL the pictures other people took, I only found this one of EJ. You can see how excited he was from that huge grin!
That has been EJ's mantra in the days and weeks leading up to his birthday. My answer is always the same: Let's not talk about that right now! My parents recently moved to a house with land, so EJ wanted a camp out birthday party. Well, due to too many circumstances beyond our control, no one came. So EJ and his daddy just camped out, and it was still fun. My mom made a campfire cake and EJ got lots of Legos and a pretty cool tackle box to store them all in (along with some tasty granola cereal)!
A couple weeks ago, right after Christmas actually, I went through my canister of spoons and scrapers and got rid of the ones I don't use and/or were broken. I think I threw away six or seven things, and these are the ones going to the thrift store:
EJ has been having fun lately...Check it out!
He made an airplane for a website, but when I asked where to upload the photo, they deleted my question. So I'll upload it to my own website! The name of his plane is "Super Foot" and it can sail for 38 feet, 1 inch, and 1 centimeter. Now isn't that a creative way to express it? |
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