I'm SO not good....

Ok - so I've had one of those days. I woke up with a dark cloud of too many "do's" on my 'to do' this today, did not sleep well, and....yadda yadda yadda. I've had a day speckled with an uncooperative 5 year old when friends were over and when daddy got home BUT, it was still wonderful...home VBS and camp mixed in with fun activities at home AND with friends. I can't wait to share some pictures!! It was so much fun. With our buddies next door (Thank you S!!) we made marbled paper, and summer fruit pizza. We also did our VBS activities with bible stories, songs, stained glass cookies and tissue/wax paper windows to let the sun shine in on. Time with our friends uplifted me. Those moments with Lovely uplifted me. At those times there was no 5 year old grouch (and yes, as a mom...I'm sure I could have handled it better and I sure felt grouchy too!!). It's funny - that balance as a mom of the hard and easy - I feel enriched even as I feel entrenched.

And then, I read this. Talk about enriched. I'm not sure I have the words to describe how touched I am. I also feel inadequate. To me, Kate has already become a friend who I met through a ministry at church and the children's liturgy. She's a part of my vocabulary (such as - yesterday's post when I mention a great day with friends! It was just natural to say without fanfare or introduction. It was just time with friends. An official blog post was milling around in my mind - but our visit was a natural highlight of my week). We had been chatting at church or an e-mail here and there, and I wanted to finally collect on that promise of "let's get together!"(you know we all say it, but actually doing it with kids, activities, jobs, housework can be another story). It was such a nice morning - sharing stories, laughing at our kids, discovering or revisiting things that are important to us we share or to enlighten the other with. It was fun, easy and well...so normal! I felt blessed to call her friend. I figured when I could put "normal" into words I'd thank her here and share how nice "normal" was....and I get on and see her post. WOW. Somehow, normal became extraordinary.

Her words, vision....how she captured Lovely's face...WOW. How do I thank someone for such imagery? How do I try to equal that...compare to that, or live up to that? I'm SO not good. I will say Kate says it BEST, and her other thoughts about living life....not just hiding in front of the computer...so TRUE!! I'm glad I'm so blessed to be able to have the REAL world, and that Kate, S, and others are IN my real world...not just here where I record my inner thoughts, and journal life experiences - but I can join on play dates with, do crafts with, "live" with. So thank you Kate, thanks for your super kind words (you are too generous, your girls gorgeous - but no surprise there) and really...God Bless you...

So, when's the next play date? :) hehe! I'm holding you to it!

Much love!