Balancing Act

It’s my dad’s birthday today.  He is really an amazing man – he has been a role model for me my entire life. Even in those times when I rebelled against him (and I did rebel) – I have always respected him.  I truly admire his integrity and honesty.  He is a man of few words most of the time but when he speaks what he has to say makes people listen, think and laugh.  As I have gotten older I have appreciated him more and more – especially his parenting style.  He let us make our own choices and mistakes while supporting us in all of our decisions – even when they wouldn’t have been his own.   Dad – I hope you have a wonderful birthday – I love you.

the only time i seem to be able to post is when i can get liam back to sleep early in the morning and everyone else is still sleeping – otherwise it’s just way too distracting….

off to multiple soccer games this am – camille’s in a tournament with 3 short games and porter has one, too – then monday a game and tuesday 2 games! our life is soccer right now – but i actually kind-of like it – it’ s really fun to  watch and the kids like it -the only challenge is keeping the younger ones entertained

got my massage room set up – and gave my first massage last week – that felt good – i am really excited to be going a different direction again with stuff i love and am looking forward to going out more on my own with some of MY projects….but it’s hard to find that time i need to do the marketing i will need to do to 

fall is such a great time of change – so busy with homeschooling, doctor’s and dentists appts, soccer and life in general but fun all the same…

Soccer on Saturday, followed by a ferry ride, hike and swim on Anderson Island on Sunday

- pretty ok if you ask me

Not at all nervous – just jumped right in….she had a great time and she gets to go back today!

Okay so it has officially started. The Boy Thing, but not what I had imagined.  So here’s the deal….Morgan has a friend who is a boy – she has known him for about 3 years.  I think she liked him alot when she first met him – had a crush on him.  Well he kind-of blew her off so she “gave up” – they have talked off on occasionally but nothing more than that.  Now he has started calling again – every other day or so for the past week and Morgan doesn’t appear to be interested anymore so she just tells him she has to go about 2 minutes after he calls.  I for the most part have been uninvolved.  Until last night. His MOTHER called us around 1 minute after Morgan and her son had gotten off the phone.   Darin answered – i was nursing Liam so I couldn’t talk.  Well the conversation that I could hear on our end was very weird, but the jist was that she wants us to ask Morgan if she is interested in having this boy call her anymore, and if not we are to call the mom back and tell her so her she can tell her son, so he doesn’t get his feelings hurt.  Actually she wanted Darin to ask Morgan right then and tell her right then but Darin wouldn’t do it and told her he would talk to Morgan and we would get back to her.  Darin told her that we felt Morgan could handle this herself but she wasn’t going for it – she was persistent in telling Darin that she didn’t want feelings hurt, they are at a tender age, blah blah blah…..SO now what? Am I supposed to discuss this with Morgan (we kind-of did but we didn’t tell her about the mom calling), do I call this mom back? if i don’t she will most likely call me….as Darin said – it feels so 7th grade – “does your friend like my friend -write back yes or no?”   I am at a loss – probably the first in a long line of losses for the next several years! My gut says stay out of it and don’t even call the mom back but?  also i should mention the boy has some physical disabilities and has to be taken care of by his mom (or someone else) and she is probably very protective of him (as she should be)

got to go to seattle (actually edmonds) last night to watch an amazing play called Birth – check out www.birthonlaborday.com – very amazing – i got to see it with two great friends and we even got to go out to eat and have wine – a real adult evening

way cool – i haven’t done that in years -it was really fun and i need to spend time with women more often

Liam did fine at grandma’s and even slept in a bit so i didn’t have to get up at the crack of dawn – thanks to grandma and darin for allowing me the opportunity to have a great night out