Back to Reality . . .

Well, after our fairy-tale-like weekend last weekend, reality came crashing back to our household this weekend!! A fair amount of catch-up homework had to be done and soccer started with a vengeance. Uggh. This season, all of our games are on Friday nights AND Saturday afternoons (two games per week - yep, a little difficult to go camping with THAT schedule). Anyway, Friday night's game was miserable - pouring rain the whole game - and I don't mean misting or sprinkling - it was cold and RAINING - even with an umbrella Mark and I got very wet and the kids were just soaked. Ummm, excuse me, they are 7 YEARS OLD - why is it we have to play in the rain?!?! And Saturday wasn't a big improvement - the rain was gone, but Ike Jr. showed up here - the wind was blowing 40-50 mph. No joke. Yep, sitting through that was a lot of fun too.

Moving on - my poor hubby had one heck of a weekend, glued to the computer waiting for news on Lehman Bros. - the name of a 158 yr. old company that I had never heard until a few months ago, and has now become a household name here. I have never, in 13 yrs., seen Mark so out-of-sorts and worried. Yikes. I'm so incredibly blessed with an eternal optimist for a husband - always cheerful and happy, never moody, doesn't get mad about much of anything - so to see him like this is highly disruptive to my peace of mind. This is not a good time to be an investment advisor . . . . he was even making comments this weekend about packing it in and moving to France. And he was only half-joking. We'll get through it, hopefully with him still employed, but I wish I could take away his stress. Last night he was looking at Jack and Noah being silly and said "oh, to be seven!" Amen. At least we get a little comic relief from our resident goofballs.

Speaking of, at least Jack and Noah remain unaffected by the tribulations of the real world - we were going through their "fast words" reading list last night and we could not get through it even once without them laughing hysterically about a couple mis-pronunciations by Jack. Their laughter is just great for the soul. They started Awana on Wednesday night, and in flipping through their book for this year, I immediately became concerned - it looks SO HARD to me. God immediately taught me a lesson about underestimating my kids, though - they eagerly grabbed those books this weekend and have already solidly memorized 5 verses, complete with citations. Amazing. How cool is that?!?

As for me, I started Bible Study Fellowship last week - an intensive weekly bible study, and I'm very excited about it - it looks awesome. I also started helping at school on Thursdays and Fridays, was asked to serve on the "decorating committee" for our new church building (how fun is that?!?! Right up my alley!!), have my small group on Tuesday mornings and start sorority on Wednesday night. Whew. I think that's enough for now!!!

We're heading out camping on Friday - yep, being the rebels that we are, we are SKIPPING the Friday night soccer game but will drive in for the Saturday one. :) Family time comes first, no matter what . . . . . .