Mommathon

What a good movie. Definitely not a happy movie, but very good.

Sean and I met on an airplane.  We were both living in the Phoenix area-he was working for Intel and I was teaching.  At Christmas, we both just happened to sit next to each other on the flight we were taking home for Christmas.  We got to talking when I borrowed a pencil from him to record some grades in my gradebook.  It turned out that our parents lived very close to each other and my cousin had gone to high school with his sister.  As our flight was ending, Sean started rummaging around in his bag and pulled out a business card.  I held onto that card all through Christmas and e-mailed him when I got back to Phoenix.  We e-mailed back and forth a couple of times and then he managed to find a very nice telephone operator who helped him figure out my phone number based on all the info he knew about me and where I lived.  (I hadn't told him too much about myself-he was a stanger I had met on a plane!)  We were married about 15 months later at Ascension.

This is our first official attempt at sports. Liam is LOVING it! He only goes for an hour each day this week and then he is done. They just do drills and play games and he thinks it is great. He will start soccer again in the fall where they will actually play a game each week.

Here was our conversation:

Me:  Liam, do you want a blueberry muffin?

Liam:  Yes!

He comes running in to the kitchen enthusiastically.  Anyone witnessing this conversation would assume that Liam enjoys blueberry muffins and is going to eat this one down in two gulps. I take the paper off the muffin and set it on a plate and present it to him at the table.  He sits down and begins to eat the muffin and I turn around and busy myself cleaning up the kitchen.

Liam:  I don't like the blueberries in this muffin.

Let's review, shall we.  I DID say the he would be eating a blueberry muffin, didn't I?  I don't have any witnesses other than Colm who is two so he probably wouldn't be allowed on the witness stand, but I am pretty certain that I did warn him that he would be eating a blueberry muffin.  I just had to laugh...and eat the rest of his muffin.

Liam has been at Vacation Bible School every day this week.  Initially he did not want to go...now he loves it.  :)  It has been very weird having him gone so much though.  He has been gone every morning from nine until noon.  Colm and I barely know what to do with ourselves.  We have been to the petting zoo twice, we have been to the park three times and have been swimming twice.  I am glad I have another year before kindergarten.

We spent our mornings this week at Little Angels. It was a program at church for the preschool-aged and under set. We read books, danced and did some crafts. They even got to play on the playground and have a picnic on the last day.

Don't you hate it when you have just bathed your little one and they are all fresh and warm and snug in their nice clean pajamas and then... they poop in their diaper.  Couldn't they just wait until morning so they could atleast be relatively clean until morning?  I hate that!