It's FRIDAY!!!!

Not that I am that excited about Fridays, but I couldn't think of a title. ;-)

We have really been enjoying this atypical Michigan weather! I realize cold and snow is right around the corner, but this week's weather has been such a nice bonus!

We have a fun weekend ahead. Tonight I am taking my kids to the "Blender" at my school. They get to come every year and have a blast playing with my middle school kids. And the kids seem to love playing with their teacher's kids as well. There is pizza, pop, cotton candy, popcorn, etc. as well as crafts, limo rides, basketball, swimming, Guitar Hero, DDR, and whatever other activities middle school kids are into these days. I told the boys about it last night and they were pumped! I do enjoy "down" time with my students too. Tomorrow morning Cobe has a soccer game (which is at 10:00 Lynette, not 11:00, so I'll have to do flu shots after the game), flu shots, then the Kraal boys are coming over to spend the night. Lisa and I are going to head out to our church auction for the evening for awhile too. I love auctions. I usually don't buy anything, but I love the action and contemplating getting a deal, even though I get too chicken to bid on most stuff. I bought a little white rocking chair one year and something else that same year- I think some food items, but other than that, I haven't ever bought anything. It's still fun though.
Sunday will be our normal routine --Sunday School and church. Then I may try to go to the movie Fireproof. I have heard so much about it and really want to see it. I haven't checked where it is playing yet, but that might have to be a Sunday date for Ryan and I.

This week has been pretty routine until last night. I had one of those helpless moments where I needed Ryan BADLY, and he was at work, and I couldn't get a hold of him. The older I get, the less I am able to handle stress I am finding. ESPECIALLY when the safety/health of one of my kids is involved. My boys had just asked to watch Game Plan (and yes, Lynette, we own it. :-) ) so I was putting in that movie for them. Sadie was just standing there watching me put the movie in. All of a sudden, she started screaming and holding her eye. It was the kind of cry that I could tell she was in extreme pain, not her normal "throw a fit" kind of cry. I tried to pry her fingers off of her eye, and could not even manage. But I could tell that her eye had already swelled up and I couldn't even see her eyelashes- and baby has some long eyelashes! She screamed and screamed and screamed. The boys were nervous and upset; I was nervous and upset, but none of us knew what had happened to her. I kept trying to call Ryan, yet he was on a search warrant and couldn't get his phone. I got a wet washcloth for her eye and just held her and cried b/c she was screaming so hard and in obvious pain. It took me awhile for some reason to remember, but I finally remembered that an eye doctor lives across the street from us, so I picked her up and ran across the street. He was getting his hair cut, but his wife called him and he came over about 5 minutes after she called. (He is a SUPER nice man!!!!) He wedged her eye open and could tell that she had scratched her cornea which he said would be super painful and light sensitive. She had cried so hard and long by this point, that she was exhausted. He told me to put her to bed b/c it had to heal on its own and sleep would be the best thing for her. She went right to sleep and seemed fine today. He said he would go to his office last night for numbing drops if I needed him to if she couldn't get to sleep. Did I mention how nice he is??? She didn't need them though- slept through the night and was fine today. I had just cut her fingernails yesterday afternoon, so she must have just snagged her eye with her own fingernail. She finally told me, "Mom, I am SOOOO mad!" I asked her why, and she said, "Because I poked myself in the eye!" She is a hoot! Sure does make you put everything into perspective when one of your kids is hurt. I had been bellyaching all day about not having enough money, and when something like that happens, makes me realize that I need nothing!

Didn't really mean for that story to become a novel!

I am still amazed every year how quickly time passes. I emailed Mary Jo this morning about one of Cobe's soccer games being changed to 12/4, and she reminded me that that is Ryan and my anniversary. When I read her email, I thought, "She is confused. Our anniversary is in December." Duh! December 4th is right around the corner!!!!!! 10 years we will have been married! We wanted to go on a big, luxury vacation to somewhere balmy and warm, but with moving, it isn't in the cards. Moving was WAY more expensive than we anticipated (hence all the bellyaching yesterday about not having any money!!!!!), so we will postpone our belated honeymoon once again, until we can save up some extra money (probably in 10 MORE years!). Then our family Christmas party for his side will be the weekend after our anniversary. Then the next weekend we'll leave for NC for a week! TIME NEEDS TO SLOW DOWN! I am going to try and make it my goal to enjoy the day, and not plan so much for the future. It passes by too quickly! (And yes Lynette, it is TOO, not to!) :-) (Do you like all of my inclusive comments to you in this post Lynette?)

Off to pick up my little cherub from preschool. Can't wait to smother her with kisses!!!! And thankful that she has her sight! How much I take for granted... and how blessed we really are.