interesting concept....
got this in my email today (surrounded by tons of spam) and thought it was providential::
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
-- Mark Twain
that sounds like the answer to many of life's just plain stuuupit mistakes and ideas, doesn't it? i mean, to be born with the wisdom from years of living while your body grows younger and younger? woah.
sounds like da bomb, don't it?
but God didn't make us that way, so i assume that wasn't such a good idea after all. or perhaps, just maybe, that's what heaven will feel like. i dunno, but after this weekend and this whole month... well, i would be really tempted to swallow a dose of mr. twain's formula given the opportunity!
i can't believe it's been almost a whole stinkin' month since i posted anything!!! gah! now that is just plain sad! but in my defense... i have been REALLY busy.
here are a few pix to prove it....
i know. he's gorgeous.... gets that from me, of course. [*choke, sputter, hack*] okay, well... some of it at least. ;)
yes, it finally happened. one of our boys graduated from high school. as he put it in the speech he delivered during the ceremony... "I'm graduating not just from high school, but from homeschool... so this is my parents' graduation as much as it is mine..."
i was so pleased with how things went, barring a few peevish things i wish hadn't happened, but most everyone he'd invited showed up and all the well wishes and words of support and encouragement were such a blessing.
probably more so to us than to corey. as much as i've almost dreaded this [graduation - proof my baby boy is now a grown up, yadda, blah]... even though the kid's been done with his 'school work' since february... when it was actually happening... when i, with tommy beside me, handed corey his diploma, i was so proud my heart almost busted clean outta me. ;) all the years of crayons and standing at the copy machine making up 'school' stuff, all the field trips and spontaneous nature walks with best friends, all the times we worked together on wording a paper or speech "just right", all the ribbons won, the trophies awarded, the pictures in the newspaper... all those achievements were rolled up in those few seconds when that blank (ha, ha) piece of rolled up paper tied with silky blue ribbon passed from my hands to his.
i would be the one with the slitty eyes from crying. sheesh! case was our trusty camera man.
hawgface & moe-lissa
{inside joke... sorry you few cyberfoks who still even read here, *sniffle* but those who understand will.... um..... well... understand!!}
um, okay... as for the rest of my busyness... just the sheer task of cleaning this place up, including the making of room for the fitting of like 30 people in my house? um... let's just say that now? I CAN'T FIND ANNNYTHING!!!!
urgh!
so, casey has turned 14 while i was in recovery. lol.
who knew how much i'd miss those sparkling-eyed messy-faced smiles?
he has been impossible re: giving any clues/hints/ideas or otherwise about what he'd like to have or do for his special day. he's been pretty sick with bronchitis, so that does kinda dampen the whole celebratory mood. anyhow, his dad finally came up with an idea... so monday, i took case over to the archery shop near our house. and there i sat and stood, alternately of course, for like 2 hours! it wasn't all bad. the couple that run the place are a hoot and i got to watch casey in action, too. we got him some bow equipment and he bought himself some arrows, too, so i think overall, he had a good time.
and then! my mom and dad took him out for supper! tommy's parents gave him a card and some money when they were here for the graduation.
corey's birthday is next week. he says he just wants a cookout. lol. isn't it hilarious how kids can put "just" in front of anything? lol!! "i just want the moon." lol!
hey, at least he didn't ask for something out of the realm of possibility. thank God for that! ;) and shoot, we need to have a cookout.
just not sure if the weather's gonna cooperate. we were sleeping with the windows open just a couple nights ago and now? it's almost 40* lower than the highs have been for almost two weeks. bring it baaaack!!!
*ahem*
anyhow, other than sis's first wedding anniversary also coming up [and pray for me you guys... i have really, reeeally awful feelings toward her husband. lazy, critical of everyone around him, demeaning to my sister, rude and whiny. um, okay... i've said too much, so i'll quit. it's just getting really bad. i mean me! i don't like it when someone can just make me furious just by thinking of them, ya know? i know this is a challenge, a test or whatever you want to call it. but i need to overcome this, and i don't have a clue how. *blush* um... *awkward silence* er... i didn't mean to go into all that, but that just proves my point. just the mention of something concerning him makes me go off. (oh, and i reigned in big time here, ya'll) *sigh*
well, i have got to get off here. i still haven't got wordpress ready to go. i mean, yes, it's installed, but at a different url, and i don't want to change urls! what i want to do is move all this stuff into wordpress and then put all of it here. the very nice man named michael who helped with the installation said that once i got the data moved (is it importing or exporting? i have no idea!) into wordpress, he'd help me get it all moved over to this url.
heh. so that leaves me, with a bunch of other junk to do already and no time to work on this import/export stuff. *wah!!* anyhow... just wanted to update you on that, but please, PLEASE do EMAIL ME!!! cuz i LOVE hearing from you guys!!! (& a big hug to you fweeties who have emailed! THANKS!)
okay... gotta git.
love yas!!!
*smooch*