Reasonable Resilience

I've been dealing with these thoughts all day long. I'm not having a very great day, but cannot really explain why. I'm sad, but happy to see my children laugh at each other. I'm mad, but am so delighted to listen to Grace say, "I'm just gonna put soap on her ponies and tails." I am reeling over this Stellan McKinney story. I cry at the drop of a hat. I took the kids to play at the playground and it rained. I cried. I cannot help but put myself in Jennifer McKinneys place. What would I do. Who would I want to talk to about it? She talks to ALL of us. Would I do that? I'm not sure I could. I think I'll be reading more of MckMama and trying not to judge how she does things, or wonder if she would be my friend if we lived near each other. I'll leave it at a blog friendship, pretty one sided, but still. I'm praying for her and her family and her little boy. My little children are in the tub as I type having a grand ol time. Here are a couple pi...

I'm praying for Stellan. He's hurting. His family is hurting. And it all makes me hurt.

So I know it was a year ago, but seriously? This is something that makes me physically ill. Can you think back with me. Your prom...did your parents tell you you couldn't dance with someone of another race? Did they say, "you may not TALK to people of another race"? Or was it that you may not even go to the same building that they were in? So let's have 2 proms, one for you...and one for "them" Maybe you don't agree but I am really surprised that this still exists. I wonder how this years prom went... This is a little aside if you will (if there were no black people at our prom it wouldn't have been as much fun) I watched this show and thought...that looks like our prom. How have they been doing this for 38 YEARS!! Charleston High School I'm gonna do a little victory dance for you. I hope your towns views have changed.

I'm a bad girl, You're a bad girl We are all bad girls. We are reading this for our women's bible study and I'm really liking it. I become a little offended on occasion when we talk about how "bad" the girls are and seemingly over look the faults of the men. I know it's called "Bad Girls of the Bible" but come on. I'll just say this, if there were a book about all the bad guys in the bible it would be bigger than the bible itself.

We got Noah a toothbrush today. He chewed on the package all the way home and when he got it out of the package proceeded to brush his hair with it. We went inside and I found Graces training toothpaste. A dab on the brush and into Noah's mouth. Eyes wide and a smile reaching his lips and he was in heaven. He didn't take the toothbrush out of his mouth until I got the milk ready to drink before bed. These are the pictures I got of the two "big" kids brushing their teeth. note-I may or may not have heard Noah go into the kitchen at one point and dip his brush into Lucy's water dish. They say dog's mouths are cleaner than humans right?

I will get to it...I promise???