Monday, October 8th, 2007

Whew, another Monday nearly done. I don't know about anyone else with little ones but I seem to have plenty of energy to get me through the night until bath time. Once I put them in the bath tub, not only is my energy gone but so is my patience!! It was so nice not having to do bath time last week!! No, they weren't stinky all week, Debbie bathed them for me every night. Not that she had much choice in the matter; they pretty much rule her time from breakfast to bedtime.



We didn't get to go to the park Saturday afternoon like we'd planned. Dark clouds came up and it looked like it was going to storm so we didn't even risk getting out in it. It was also really hot and humid. Instead we decided to go to the mall and walk around. Taylor was still crying and upset Saturday afternoon about Meme & Papaw leaving so I told her we'd go to the mall and let her and Emma play at the play place. She has been asking for months now to have her ears pierced and I haven't let her do it yet. She asked again and I felt sorry for her so I said yeah, I guess we can have your ears pierced while we're there. She perked up and got really excited. I was a little excited for her too. That is, until we got there and I started filling out the paperwork and signing everything. All of a sudden I started feeling really anxious about it and not sure I wanted her to have them yet. We had to wait on two other people to have theirs done and the whole time we waited I kept asking her if she was SURE she wanted to do it and she kept saying yes. The longer I stood there waiting and looking at her little baby ear lobes the sicker I was getting about it. The piercing gun kept messing up and getting stuck on the other girl's ears and the lady would have to use the tweezers to get it unstuck. I could tell from the look on the girl's faces that it hurt. The last girl asked if she would try to fix it before Taylor's turn because she said it really hurt and Taylor shouldn't have to feel that when she gets hers done. I kept asking Taylor if she didn't want to wait till another time. Finally I bribed her by telling her we'd get her this Hannah Montana thing in the store if she'd wait until November when Nana comes to have them pierced. She agreed really quickly then! :) I think she thought that we'd let her have this $20 long blond Hannah Montana wig that she saw. ha!! I know it sounds really stupid of me to have felt that way but I just couldn't help it...I wasn't comfortable with it at all after we got there. She is growing up too fast to begin with and I felt like piercing her ears would make her look even that much more grown up. I'm going to keep preparing myself for it and maybe when Mom comes in November I will let her do it then. Maybe... :)

I know Bill and Debbie are disappointed that I didn't let her do it. When Bill left a message on the machine saying that they had made it home, he sad in a sad voice "Taylor, I'm really sorry you didn't get to get your ears pierced, baby. Maybe your Mom will let you do it another time soon." I didn't let Taylor hear the message...didn't need to add any fuel to the fire and have her get upset about it. I was really proud of her how she handled herself when I asked her to wait. She didn't whine or cry about it and hasn't yet. I think she was a little freaked out by the gun getting stuck on those other girl's ears because she kept asking if that would happen to her too.

The MOPS Mom's Night Out was a lot of fun Friday night. The scavenger hunt was a blast! My group won!!! I didn't participate since I had made up the clues, I only drove the car wherever they wanted to go. Right after we started the hunt, it came a downpour and it stuck around for most of the time we were looking for the things. There were a lot of people we encountered that thought we were all crazy! One of the clues was to find two friends having coffee. We went into a panera bread company and found a middle-aged man and woman having coffee. We asked if we could take their picture and explained what we were doing and they said NO! (Makes you wonder what THEY were doing! ha!) I decided to go to a Dunkin Donuts and ask the employee at the drive-through to pose with another employee and pretend to talk while holding up their coffee cups. They agreed and made a really good (believable) picture for us to show back at the restaurant. We even talked a department store manager into dumping out the quarters in the cash register drawer to find us a Washington State quarter! When we all made it back to the restaurant, most of us looked like we'd done well avoiding being soaked in the rain, except for one lady who was the MOST competitive of all. She wanted to win so badly and she looked like a drowned rat at the end of it all. It was so funny. I think her group came in 2nd. I overheard one of her group members saying that they were really afraid because she was driving so fast and trying to take pictures out the window at the same time!! ha!!

Well, I need to go put a load of laundry on. Taylor has picture day at school tomorrow and the shirt she wants to wear is dirty...naturally! :)
One more thing...
Today my Bible study was about how to find out what God's will is for your life and about being in the center of his will and praising Him in every area of our lives, even in our work and jobs and I read a set of verses that really shook me and made me realize something that I don't do enough-be joyful and grateful all the time and in every situation. The verses were from 1 Thessalonians:

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18:
16 -18 Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.