i have good friends

I'm in my house...all alone.  My next door neighbor, Crystal has three children.  And for the most part they get along really well with my two.  So my two are over there right now watching a movie.  I did some cleaning and now I'm being a little abusive of this friendship and I'm blogging :)  Crystal is amazing...I hope she knows that.

 

I love Saturdays.  We spend the morning doing Saturday chores and then we jet around town and go to stores.  Saturdays usually consist of at least one trip to Home Depot.  James loves it.  He could walk around that store for hours.  Maybe I could too.  But my kids climb on all of the displays.  Literally, all of them.  The second we got inside the doors today, Porter immediately climbed onto a pile of wood.  And Paige follows right behind.  Dang kids.

 

My kids cried and cried for chips today.  I wonder where they got that from?  So on the way home from Home Depot we just had to stop at a grocery store and buy a bag of chips.  I shouldn't have done it.  But I love chips too and if I was a kid today, I would have cried for them too.

 

We "tangoed" my parents when we got home.  My kids think it's so cool to see grandma and grandpa in the phone.  But after a minute, Paige cried for me to close with grandma so I could get her some pants on.  Gosh I love my kids.

 

I didn't realize how special motherhood would be.  I didn't realize this intense love I'd feel.  Or the constant burden of knowing I'm the one who has to teach them right from wrong so they can make good choices one day.  Gosh I hope I do a good job.

 

We saw Catching Fire last night.  It was beautiful.  I mean it.  I love the characters.  I love the fight people have in them when they know they are being treated wrong.  It actually makes me pretty emotional - I totally believe in fighting for what you believe is right.

 

Wow, this turned out to be quite an honest blog post :)  We're having friends over for dinner so I need to get going - I've got orange chicken to make!

 

Happy weekend!