kyra's best friend, mayia, is here for a sleepover tonight... and it is the funniest thing to watch them. it brings back shades of me and cynthia back in the day - they are a perfect match.
the funniest thing - they are in the same room, chatting via nintendo ds (so no words are actually being spoken), and all of sudden the two of them burst out into hilarious giggling, accompanied by "why did you do that?!" or "my brother!" or some other seemingly nonsense exclaimation. it's too funny.
i know we've got a long way to go, but i like this tween thing... :)
i was sitting here in the living room yesterday, when suddenly i realized what was going on.
kyra was lying on the couch talking to her friend, maiya, and she said, "then what did he say?"
5 little words. "then what did he say?"
and so it begins...
yeah, you heard me! happy birthday to my husband of 14, soon to be 15 years! wow - that's a long time!
here's a festive birthday list of 10 wonderful things about... you!! (by which i mean curtis and not you, dear reader... tho i am sure you are wonderful, too.)
- you make me laugh
- you are my "red tape" hero
- you let me feel your muscles
- you make excellent brownies
- you are a magnificent dad
- you give me the gift of letting me be myself - and love me for it
- you make all our technology work
- you do the dishes without complaining
- you are a thinker and a questioner
- you read out loud to me
and i hate to ruin the surprise, but your birthday measuring spoons are awaiting their first use...
"Two doctors in Britain have confessed, after 34 years, to making up a condition called cello scrotum."
can i get a "WHAAA??" from the choir? the article goes on to say that this made up condition has been cited in medical journals for those 34 years! and they did it on a lark, as a joke... who says doctors don't have a sense of humor?
in the dailymail this morning (out of britain) there is a long, long article about the sexualization of tween & teen girls...and it was heartbreaking. the author ended it with this. "Perhaps it’s time for everyone to ... show each other a little more respect; and, since we’re supposed to be the adults, it has to start with us, with how we behave, how we draw boundaries and what we put in our newspapers and magazines and on our television screens."
also, i had pudding for breakfast this morning. i haven't had a pudding cup in years, and it made my heart happy. that is all.
do you see this sea turtle? doesn't he look like the most joyous sea turtle in the whole ocean? you want to know why? because is being himself! he is swimming, doing what he was created to do in the place he was created to do it! look, listen & apply!
i am reading a book by eugene peterson called 'Christ plays in ten thousand places - a conversation in spiritual theology'. phew. even the title takes a minute! it's a vastly more intellectual read than i usually endeavor upon, and i've found it very slow going... but only because it's so rich & thoughtful. it's hard to "quote" because the ideas build on one another and are not easily encapsulated. but here is a little excerpt that i think is appropriate as we each embark upon our week.
"there is a great deal of so-called creation appreciation, or "love of nature", that prefers to look the other way when men and women appear on the scene. genesis 2 will not permit it. men and women are as integral to creation as the garden with it's trees and rivers, its animals and birds.
several years ago one of my students who lived a distance away and rode a crowded bus to the college each day said to his wife as he went out the door one morning, "i'm just going to go out and immerse myself in nature today." the next day his parting words were the same. on the third day, she called him back. "don't you think you ought to go to class today? a couple of days of walking in the woods or on the beach is okay, but don't you think enough is enough?"
he said, "oh, i've been going to class every day."
"then what," she said, "is all this business about immersing yourself in creation?"
"well, i spend fourty minutes on the bus each morning and afternoon. can you think of a setting more thick with creation than that - all those people created, created in the image of God, created male and female?" "
whether you believe God created man as part of a literal 6 day creation, or created him over eons of careful and intentional evolution is not the point of this little story. the point is we are all headed into a sea of creation tomorrow... schools, jobs, grocery stores, gyms, offices, malls. how would our time there be different if we realized it? we all stop in awe to appreciate the beauty of the mountain range, or the waves on the sand... how will we react to the creation we encounter tomorrow?
poor, sickly meg. day 2 of fever ... last time we checked it was 101.6. *sigh*
on the sunny side of the street, though, cadbury mini eggs are for sale at kroger! hooray! some of my favorite chocolate in the whole darn world... ahhhhh.....
the funniest thing - they are in the same room, chatting via nintendo ds (so no words are actually being spoken), and all of sudden the two of them burst out into hilarious giggling, accompanied by "why did you do that?!" or "my brother!" or some other seemingly nonsense exclaimation. it's too funny.
