Yes, since I last wrote I have had a birthday and although I'm at the peak of the mid-30's at 35 - I'm feeling the rapid decline...tried to do Curves yesterday and almost died when I started my second loop - so unlike me! Hope it's not a sign of things to come for me this year...I'm already falling behind on my normal pace...Lord help me if I loose steam....
Last week was busy and all of us have felt yucky at some point over the past 2 weeks - mild symptoms but kept school attendance always adjusting. Some days I had no students and others just 1! I felt pretty lousy on Friday but we had to get into town to sign papers on our mortgage refinance and promptly took a 2 hour nap when I got home to try and recover. Katelyn had a birthday party on Friday night and we spent a good chunk of the rest of the day shopping for the very specific yet hard to find gift. What sweet victory when we walked out of the store with said gift in hand just hours before the event...The boys had a men's breakfast on Saturday morning and so I got up early with them and made a yummy batch of homemade homefries. Abigail and I enjoyed a leisure morning reading and talking and watching cartoons. Spring has sprung here and the birds are out in force. Abigail was so cute when she informed me as she always does, "Just to tell you Mom, the birds are signs - not like the signs on the highway - but ways God tell His creation that it's springtime..." She's a ticket...and always prefeces her comments by, "just to tell you". She was a bit sad on the ride to Katelyn's birthday party as she realized she doesn't have any friends her age to invite to her party and so she made an elaborate plan to have her party at Nana's so she could have her many girl cousins there to celebrate with her.
Sunday we began a new Sunday school class for the adults and this week we will begin a new format for the kids. I have been helping in the transition of the material and so have been a bit busy with lots of study and Bible studies. I have enjoyed my quiet days with elderly friend, Bea - as it has afforded me a house where no phone rings nor loud children activity vies for my attention.
The big question of the weekend was what I wanted to do for my birthday. As I don't really enjoy eating out nor the hype of celebrating for myself - the kids took it upon themselves to have a restaurant setting at home. They did the shopping, cooking and cleaning. Schylar was my waiter and Katelyn was the chef. We had a fabulous salad (just how I like it - no iceburg!) and sourdough bread with balsamic/olive oil dip. The main course was one of my all time favs - spaghetti. The candles, single rose from Abigail and the fancy glasses with sparkling cider made the meal very fun. Ed gave me my gift while we ate and I was over the moon at the concert tickets to Steven Curtis Chapmon on the 3rd. I wanted to go SOOO badly.... it made my day. The other fabulous part of my day was that I got to clean Ed's office (he told my mom that he wanted to allow me to do what I love to do and since cleaning is a favorite pastime...his office seemed like a birthday treat..) and while doing so got a call from dear friends, Garth and Carol Lombard from South Africa who remembered my birthday. Amazing to me that they remembered and so precious. After the cleaning session, I was allowed to have a long hot soak and read my book while the kids got supper ready and even banished to my room until it was completely ready - I think they knew I'd try to do something unless I was quarrantined... :) So in the end - turning 35 was pretty sweet and now I just hope I can return to Curves armed with my usual stamina and not huff and puff my way around the circuit!
The week is busy as usual - tomorrow I have to sit with Bea, Thursday we are going to the Stanley Theatre to watch the Freedom Train production on Harriet Tubman - Katelyn did her library research paper on her this year - I have my ladies study on Thursday night - Friday is Youth Group - Saturday is Sunday school prep at church and then Sunday marks the end of the week! Hope I can stay with it long enough to get there....I am 35 now you know...
Comments
Mar. 18, 2009 - Stephen Curtis
Posted by Anonymous
I KNEW you'd love that gift!! Would love to be going with you and seeing it all over again. Will Michael W. be with him, too? You will love love the concert. Mom
Mar. 18, 2009 - 35?
Posted by Anonymous
Oh I loved that post!! Oh to be 35 again!! Thanks for that. Linda