Monday Musings

* This April will go down in history as one of the best ever. The weather has been BEAUTIFUL for almost the e.n.t.i.r.e month! We've been able to enjoy seeing the park come to life right before our eyes. Last night on our walk down to Turtle Pond I noticed baby basswood leaves shimmering in the wind. Savoring the quiet beauty that is BearCountry is such a treat!!!

* Sam started soccer on Saturday. He was suppose to start last week but I plum forgot. (If you think that's bad - wait til you hear what I did to poor Julia at church yesterday!)
I photographed a wedding Saturday afternoon an hour away from home so I was only able to watch the first 20 minutes of soccer. It was a very very painful 20 minutes for this former soccer player to watch. I know we don't pay much for CommunityEducationSoccer, but it's quiet pathetic. In the first ten minutes of practice Sam touched the ball twice. He stood in line the rest of that time. Rather than split the 12 kids into two lines to shoot at both goals, they all stood in one line and waited and waited and when kids cut in line (which happened often) they waited some more.

Then they were told to pick a partner so they could pass the ball back and forth. These kids are 4 and 5 years old. They don't know how to pick a partner! Like I said, it was painful. They didn't do anything in practice that we couldn't do at home. I was really looking forward to Sam learning to play with a bunch of other kids, not how to stand in line.

It's my fault though, I missed the deadline for the more advanced team. So until Fall he's stuck at the preschool level. At least it will build his confidence and team spirit. "Our team scored 5 points Mommy!" he said excitedly. Bless his heart - HE scored all the goals by himself.

* Julia is constantly saying p**py and under*wear and then laughing uncontrollably. I have no idea why. Sam didn't' do this, though I think I heard somewhere that it's normal. I just hope this phase passes quickly!

* I got contacts on Friday. My eyes hate them. I wear them anyway so I can enjoy sunglasses. I've worn glasses every day for a year and not having to worry about the kids knocking them off is worth dry itchy eyes.

* I have become addicted to cleaning. I can't stop myself. I blame my new Dyson and the Norwex cleaning cloths I bought recently. I'll have to write a whole post about these products and another gem I found - they have been life changing. (Don't laugh. It's true!)

* My FIL turns 70 this week as my grandma turns 90. We are looking forward to birthday celebrations with both sides of our family later this week.

* We sent a letter to our church today. It was very hard to write and even harder to send.
We were married there and both our kids were baptized there so telling them we are switching churches was so sad since they've been our church home for a decade. It just got too hard to attend on a regular basis when we don't live in the same town anymore. We tried for two years to make it work, but we want to be more involved than our schedule allows for.

* I switched out clothes in the kid's dressers/closets. It's a huge project because they have to try on much of what is already in there drawers to determine if there's any chance that it'll fit in the Fall in addition to trying on all the Summer clothes from last year. In the case of Julia, 75% of her summer clothes don't fit. I guess three years is all I'm going to get out of those beloved dresses she's worn every summer of her life. Sam, on the other hand, still fits in 75% of his summer clothes. The pile of outgrown clothes that I've not-so-carefully mounded in Julia's closet is as tall as me. I miss being able to have a garage sale every year!

* Speaking of garage sales....this is the week of The Big One. There aren't as many things on my 'wish list' this year since I found SO many great deals last year, but there are enough to make it worth the hassle of traffic that comes with 150 garage sales in one town.

* Sometime in the past month Julia has acquired about 25 new freckles - all along the bridge of her nose. She didn't have them last Summer and if she got that many already this year I've deemed this summer, The Year of the SunHat. Is she too old for a bonnet like this? If so have you seen any cute ones for every day wear?

* And last but not least...my mom fail of the week....as we were getting back into the car after church on Sunday Julia made the comment that she didn't have any under*wear on. Now normally this would just her being silly and coming up with another reason to say her new favorite word, but my heart instantly stopped. When I took off her night time under*wear that morning I only had her dress and sweater in the room, not her daytime under*wear. I figured I should at least get her mostly dressed while I had her standing there. (She's a runner and likes to make getting dressed as much of a game as she can. Lucky me!) As most moms can attest to, I only had the final 15 minutes before we needed to leave to get myself ready so I got busy finding something presentable for church, completely forgetting to finish getting Julia dressed.

Her dress was long thank goodnesss! BUT she used the bathroom during Sunday School which means her teacher took her my three year old commando daughter to the bathroom.
*sigh* So much for making a good impression at our new church.

And on that note...I'll bid you all goodnight....Here's to a great (fully dressed!) rest of the week!