Randomness

1. It's been nice outside.  In 3 days I logged 11 miles.  Or I would have logged it if my Nike app hadn't totally drained my phone of battery.  I managed to snap this pic before it died completely.  Yes, those are my children reading books on our walk.  We were out for almost three hours.  I brought reinforcements. 

2. This part of the school year is always hard.  Kids quit caring, co-workers get impatient, and you can see the finish line, yet it's still so far away.  Last week I caught some kids cheating - good kids, too - and I was devastated.  My head knows they are in 7th grade and they are still learning, but my heart really wanted to keep believing that they were good, solid kids who would never do such a thing. #bummed

3. I'm starting to get REALLY stoked about summer.  Lucy can walk now, and I've got Charlie signed up for T-ball (a first!), swim lessons, VBS, and possibly gymnastics.  We've also got a family vaycay to the Ozarks on the books, and possibly another with just us.  Still working that one out.

4. Jennifer and I are going to lead a connect group at church on motherhood.  It started out as me thinking, "I really wish they would do a support group for moms" and then, as those things often do, I ended up realizing that I could and should do it.  Jennifer is going to help me and we are kicking it off the first Saturday in May and finishing at the end of July.  The group's aim will be basic - to provide moms with scriptural and corporate encouragement as they seek to be the best moms they can be.  More to come on that score.

5. Rick got a promotion!  That's right - he's now a project manager for one set of their stores.  The downside: he has been working late every night this week.  I just got off the phone with him an hour ago and he said "Hopefully I'll be out of here by 10." That's PM.  Poor guy.

6.  I have been having "knock-down-drag-outs" as my mother would say with my son over getting dressed in the morning.  The kid HATES to get himself dressed.  I don't know if it's the early hour or what, but it is a battle nearly every morning.  He does it because I make him, but he whines like a baby, and there is nothing that irks me more than whining.  So most of the time I just tell him he's not allowed to talk.  Then he just cries silently.  Which would be heartbreaking if I weren't so annoyed.

7. I turn 30 one month from today.