Just thinking

This is going to sound like the blondest thing I have said in a while, but…

I had no Idea that the Kentucky_Derby was such a big deal down here. 

(yes, yes…I do know that I’m actuallyin Kentucky.)

I thought that the derby was just a horse race.  The Derby is actually the end of a two week festival. (and they go all out.)

 Live and learn I guess.

David’s Kindergarten class had their annual Kentucky derby today.  It was WAY too funny.  The first few groups of racers didn’t get the concept of a race track at all and ran straight  toward the door… Forrest Gump style.  There were tons of spills and chills…ESPN seriously should have broadcast this one! At the end of their race they all got roses from the “Mayor”. (or the librarian..whateva)

I would like to say that my little jockey won his race…

(and It doesn’t count that the really fast kid that should have won didn’t because he lost his little Jockey hat and had to go back for it!)

 See if you can spot him..number 30 on the inside lane.

Why is it when you decide you really need to lose weight…that’s the exact time everyone brings you the things you can’t resist the most…

I give you example one. 

Old fashioned Pecan Divinity my dad dropped off this afternoon.

ingredients include…Sugar, corn syrup, Pecans, Partially hydrogenated Soybean oil, egg whites  and so on…

also know as… big fluffy sweet empty calories…

or

pure evil

Earthquakes in the Midwest are not a good thing…

(and… I’m pretty sure that California is laughing at us all right now…because atleast where I am there is little damage…no one is hurt that I’ve heard of…but everyone is freaking out… )

I haven’t slept well all week…so I wasn’t motivated to get out of my bed to survey the situation.  I was in that half awake but still mostly asleep mode…

The last thing I thought as I was being shaken awake this morning was that there was an actual earthquake taking place.

(If I knew I might have been more concerned…and then again …maybe not)

As I laid there I did think of some other possible scenarios for what was actually happening…

*  Fort Knox has gone wild … (and then I thought It would be nice if Fort Knox wait till after breakfast to practice heavy artillery fire.)

*The train that runs behind our house must have derailed.

*Is this another tornado?

*The possibility I might have given myself brain damage trimming the hedges yesterday with the ancient power tools/crazy vibrating hedge trimmers…The Vibrations are all in my head…

* Meth Lab explosion? (not that there are any Meth labs near my house…that I know of…but sounds more probable than an earthquake in Kentucky.)

* I shouldn’t have stayed up and watched Eli_Stone  Finale.  That’s what I get for watching t.v.  Now I’m dreaming I’m in the show… (f.y.i.  Eli has visions of a earthquake…that no one else sees or feels…I don’t watch TV much anymore…but I like this show.)

* If something is blowing up or crashing into my house… I’m gonna have to get out of bed. I sill have 30 minutes to sleep…If I hear sirens I’ll check it out…maybe.

* Maybe it’s not as real as I think it is…my husband isn’t waking up…Is the bed really shaking?  Certainly he would be up if this was serious… (and then I remembered that John can sleep through anything… Like the time there was a major car accident in our FRONT YARD… 2 ambulances and a Fire truck sirens blaring…I was on my way home and I though our house was burning down because of all the police cars and traffic back up…and he was asleep on the couch in the front room and had missed the whole thing.) And now…I can say he can sleep through an earthquake and really mean it.

Anyway…I went back to sleep.

( on a side note I grew up very close to where the fault line in Southern Illinois  where the earthquake originated…)

I’m getting good at this natural disaster stuff…

Since February…Tornadoes,

A Flood (that I didn’t think was that bad, but schools closed), 

Largest snow storm in recent history

and now a Earthquake.

Take_this_survey  if you felt the quake.

I’m not really sure why this is…

but

Candy that comes from other countries tastes  better than regular old candy from home…

(especially when you think the person that brought it back to you is way cool) 

thanks Bethany.

I think I am having an early mid life crisis…very early. 

There is a great possiblity that all four members of my family will be in school come this fall…

1 in Kindergarten

1 in First Grade

and

2 in College… (that would be my husband and I)

lets see…

Getting married at 20…

Having 2 kids litterally in the first 2 years of marriage…

being a stay at home mom for 5 years…

Well, it hasn’t give me much time to consider the future…

So, that leaves me with the Question…now what do I want to do?

I had this all figured out when I got married. I had a perfect plan mapped out for us.

Thank God He sometimes saves us from our own plans…

We both have good Jobs…

I’m pretty sure we won’t be doing them forever though. (Ministry for sure, buy maybe not in the current format)

I like where we live…

But, I don’t want to stay here forever… (I need to live closer to a Chipotle)

I’ve discovered a so many things that I can do recently that I never even thought I could do.

So, now what?

Is this when you are patient and wait for God to open doors?

Is this when you activly seek  and discover where you should be going and make a plan of attack?

Any Suggestions?

Job Suggestions?

 (I’m not saying I’m quitting my current job, but maybe I just need a couple more…)

(I’ll take any job suggestions except my husband saying I should be tech support or the resident sarcasm adviser)

What’s one of the best feelings in the world?

When you finally give away or hand down all your kids clothes that they have grown out of in the last 2 years and you drive the rest down to the local Goodwill.

Empty Rubbermaid containers are a wonderful thing.

If you have a petting zoo at your Easter Egg Hunt what would be the first thing the little baby lamb does upon arriving to said egg hunt?

If you guessed poop EVERYWHERE…you would be correct.

Shew!

He was so stinkin’ cute though!

(no pun intended)

So, my poor little son has been in trouble at school lately…

There is nothing worse than having to pull a stick in Kindergarten.

His offenses include…playing rock paper scissors at the lunch table and talking too loud to his friends.

hum?  Being too social and too loud? 

That’s genetic!

(no one in our house is too social or loud. except of course for me, my husband and my daughter…)

The poor kid is screwed.

This week had to pull a stick again. 

This time for an apparent moon walk.

  ( he has been watching America’s Best Dance Crew with his dad)

This is the conversation I overheard between him and my mother yesterday.

Nana- So you had to pull a stick today David?

David- yeah.

Nana- What were you doing to get in trouble?

David- I was walking backwards into my classroom.

Nana- Oh. Backwards. You know that’s a sign of intelligence?

David- oh. You know Nana…I can spell my name backwards.

r-e-v-i-l-o  d-i-v-a-d

Nana- interesting.

Just a hunch, but I think he might be bored in Kindergarten.

Anyone wanna help me stuff a few thousand eggs with candy?

I pay in pizza.

Seriously stop by…

( I do realize that everyone will now be avoiding me until Easter is over)

So, I love where my husband and I are now.

It’s feels good to be where you are suppose to be…doing what God wants you to be doing…

But.

I miss home.  (aka_The_Church_at_Polaris)

I moved around so much when I was younger that I don’t really have a city that I call “home.”

(I live in Westerville, Ohio…Cincinnati, Ohio…Bardstown, Kentucky…Little Rock, Arkansas…Canton, Ohio…, Johnston city Illinois.  and a few other random places…)

It truly is the people that make home special.

I guess I’m People Sick then?

That doesn’t make sense….

I just need to visit home and soon!

(and eat Chipotle..while I’m there…just sayin’)

(and not all the people I miss are at TCAP…but you know…)