Posted by Prairierose on May 17, 2009
Even though it was a day we looked forward to for a very long time, I have to say that I am glad this weekend is over. He has graduated. I have gotten through the “entertainment” part of it with the reception afterwards. As I shopped for plates and napkins and decorations and such, it reminded me of a time that I was in a ministry at church where we would host baby showers and such for the new moms to be in the church. I loved putting together events like that, picking out just the right baby shower favors, mayking the whole theme fit together, whether by my design, or following along with a theme of who we were throwing the shower for. I loved those days, and I got a lot of satisfaction and rewarding feelings for my efforts. I would like to work my way back to a place in my life that I could do that. I don’t like where I am right now, physically, emotionally, spiritually. This weekend was a good reminder of that.
Posted by Prairierose on May 03, 2009
We received not one, but two baby announcements last week. A couple in our church just had their first baby, a little girl. And then David’s sister’s son, had his own son last week as well. A time of celebration, I would say. We have alot of new young couples in our church now, so I would venture to say we will be seeing alot of these new announcements. It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago we were making our own announcement at church and to family about our new little one. And now he is graduating high school in just a few short weeks. It doesn’t seem possible, and yet, we all know life goes one. And with that, we have had a few deaths in our church family as well. Expected, and yet, it still hurts, and they will be missed. That is life though. New Life. Life ending. What we do inbetween those two events is up to us.
Posted by Prairierose on May 03, 2009
David got after me the other day. He had a card reader built right into his computer, so whenever I want to dump my pictures onto my external hard drive, I let him do it instead of using my USB card reader. What should happen after he does that is that I should delete all the pictures on the card. But I don’t. So, when he goes to dump pictures the next time off the micro sd card that we have, its the same group of pictures again… with new pictures added at the end. I don’t blame him for getting after me. I will try to do better. This last time around, I did delete the pictures off the card, and I even made new folders and got the organized like I wanted to, so when I’m looking for a specific picture, the folder is pretty self explanatory, instead of having to look through each folder. Someday I will figure out that if you do it right the first time, it will save you time and effort in the long run.
Posted by Prairierose on May 02, 2009
Ethan’s car died last week, and he’s been driving David’s little pickup. Which, doesn’t put a hardship on anyone because David has a company truck that he drives everyday. So now we are looking for a different vehicle for Ethan. David keeps going back and forth between selling him his little pickup (which would be a $1500 purchase), or looking for another vehicle similiar to what just died (but ran a year and a half for Ethan), which was a $350 purchase. The one thing that will happen either way is that Ethan needs to get his own auto insurance. He’s been on our policy all through high school (well, since he started driving, whatever year that was). But now that he is graduating and will be moving out — having his own insurance is one of the many things on the list of things will change now that he is an “adult” and on his own. I hope that he can make it all work. There are qualities in him that makes me believe that he will be just fine, and he can make it work. But there are other qualities that … scare me. But, we have been through this before with our 4 other kids. He may fall on his face a time or two, but I think he can figure it out and will be just fine.
