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Time has gotten away...again

Well, I guess time will always slip away because here it is February 2011 and Ethan is 9.5 and in Third Grade and Madeleine is 7.5 and in First at WECS. Devin is almost 5.5 and is in the Young 5's at New Hope. Ethan is doing basketball through Parks and Rec and is on the Bulls team. Madeleine is in her second year of Daisys and having her 4th sleepover (1 at Melissa's, 2nd failed attempt at Melissa's, 3rd one at Madeleine R.'s and now tonight at Sarah's). Devin's speech has come a long way and I was feeling really great about how easy it is to understand him until his teacher conference yesterday when she explained that most kids have a very hard time understanding him. Ugh! She did share a funny story about Devin saying, "titty" for his new cats and George saying, "Yeah, my brother talks about his balls all the time too."

Lunch out, well sort of.

Today was a pretty good day. Much better than 2 days ago when Devin had a major meltdown at Chick Fil A. Major one. The bright spot was that I was not at my usual Chick Fil A and I almost felt invincible. Well, sort of. I stood tall, dealt with the hitting, the grabbing of my large handbag, removed him to the foyer area amidst the highest pitched shreak you can imagine. People were a mix of shock, hurt (literally, as in their ears) mixed in with a bit of good old disgust. I could see it in their eyes, their sideways glances that lasted a little too long and the outright starers that just could not avert their eyes once they fixated on the little boy. I told him we were not eating in/playing on the new playground now and off we went. Of course, on the way out as I collected my other 2 children who were behaving marvelously I might add, we passed some other mom, dining with her 3 children peacefully. She had to have heard the noise and as we walked by the thought slipped into my head so quickly, the thought that it looked so nice to sit and eat a lunch out in peace with kids. No sooner had the words slipped through my mind, did I hear my daughter's name called by the little girl at the very table. Lovely, I thought. We have a witness now.

David Crowder Band's "All I Can Say" Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hQjJR-klTg

David Crowder Band - "All I Can Say"

Lord I'm tired

So tired from walking

And Lord I'm so alone

And Lord the dark Is creeping in Creeping up To swallow me

I think I'll stop Rest here a while

And this is all that I can say right now

And this is all that I can give

And this is all that I can say right now

And this is all that I can give, thats my everything

And didn't You see me cry'n?

And didn't You hear me call Your name?

Wasn't it You I gave my heart to?

I wish You'd remember Where you sat it down

And this is all that I can say right now, i know its not much.

But this is all that I can give, yeah thats my everything.

This is all that I can say right now [right now], i know its not much.

But this is all that I can give, yeah thats my everything.

I didn't notice You were standing here

I didn't know that That was You holding me

I didn't notice You were cry'n too

I didn't know that That was You washing my feet

And this is all that I can say right now, oh i know its not much.

But this is all that I can give, yeah thats my everything.

This is all that I can say right now [right now], i know its not much.

But this is all that I can give, yeah thats my everything.

And this is all that I can say right now, oh i know its not much.

But this is all that I can give, yeah thats my everything.

yeah thats my everything [2x] everything........

Easter 2006

DisneyWorld August 2006

Family Picture in Seagrove 2007