Sandi is home!

I survived my first trip driving to Detroit Metro Airport to pick up Sandi. As my daughters will tell you, I hate even the thoughts of having to pick anyone up there. I always have made Mike do the driving. My airport of choice is Flint's Bishop International Airport. Small, simple, easy to get to! It sounded so good when I first bought the discounted Southwest Airline ticket for Sandi to come home from college for the summer. I white-knuckle drove all the way there. My jaw hurts from clenching my teeth for an hour and a half! Since i was there 30 minutes earlier than planned, it cost me 9 hard-earned dollars to sit in their parking complex to wait for her, and to de-stress myself! I only had to circle the airport 3 times to finally find her waiting for me outside. Thank goodness for modern technology (cell phones!) But, it's 1:30 am and we are home safely. Sandi said the airport was dirty and she will work all summer to be able to fly home out of Flint! NO arguements here!

Another week past.

It's hard to believe. I am finally on day shift. My prayers have been answered. I believe the Lord is always trying to teach me patience. It took 9 months of 7-day work weeks, sometimes 12-hour days. Not that those long hours and weeks are over, but at least now i feel a little more normal.I can go to church and not have to leave early to go home and take a nap. (well, I'm sure the naps aren't completely over, just hopefully not as long!) My kids can call me and not worry about waking me up. I can enjoy the good weather and daylight!
I had a conversation with my daughter Cindy this week about her dealings with her 2 children. I remember going throught the same things, but she seems to have a lot more patience and self-control. I am so proud of how she handles her little family. I look back and think how hard I was on my children. I think Cindy knows a little of where I was coming from, although she swears she doesn't remember ever being that difficult! I hope she can forgive me for not having enough patience and self-control. I feel bad and have repented, but somehow it doesn't seem enough. I put those girls through a lot. I am just grateful that they brought the LDS gospel into my life, so that I am able to be a better mother to my son.

On another note, we had a scary adventure this week with a bat flying through our living room. Jonathan was the lucky one to see it's presence. I never did see it, and in my course of denial, I asked him if he sure it was a bat, or just a large moth! The first time he saw it, it had flown behind the couch. I peeked ever-so-slightly behind it, only to see his church tie laying in a pile on the floor. I didnt't make an all-out effort to actually see if the bat may be clinging to the back of the couch. I then decided the crisis was over, so I retired to bed. Around 11:30 pm (so much for sleeping normal hours!) he came running in our bedroom to say he saw the bat again, this time flying into the kitchen! I once again half-heartedly investigated.......No bat! Jonathan then crawled into bed with us. Well, 2 dogs, an 11-year-old and Mike..........all crammed into a queen-sized bed on a night I had to get up the next morning to go to work! Oh Boy! I decided groggily to retire to the livingroom couch and take a chance that this ghastly creature would not decide to nest in my hair! Sleep suddenly ruled over fear!
When Jonathan came home from school the next day, he told me he was playing on his laptop while sitting on the couch, and he looked over to see the bat clinging from the couch just a foot or two away! ....and now i feel guilty that I only peeked ever-so-quickly behind the couch after his first sighting! Apparently it was there all along and decided to climb over the back of the couch to snuggle closer to my son. That only goes to show you, Lucas and Lana, don't run to Grandma when you are scared! I tend to tune things out and the worst is yet to come! I definately will never become anyone's hero!

That's my life this week in a nutshell.Stay tuned for next weeks adventure of "Bats in our Belfry!"

Hail Storm

Okay, this may just look like a leftover pile of michigan snow, but it is in fact a pile of hail we got last night(apr. 11th) around 9pm. Jonathan was so scare listening to the sound the hail made hitting the window, he came out and sat next to me on the couch and asked "shouldn't we say a prayer?" well, i did and as i was asking the lord to protect us, the winds died down and the hail stopped! so, i said......."see, prayer really works!" he said, "well, it calmed down some anyway!" It was coming down pretty hard, and the ground was blanketed with hail. It was pretty cool. This picture i took the next morning after most of it melted. I was going to take a pic. of it last night, but somehow got distracted and forgot. Luckily there was still a little left when i got home from work (9am)
so, this is my exciting life! not as good as my daughter cindy. if you've ever been a mom of young children, you can go to her blog and read of her adventures with her 2-year-old son Lucas, and 6-month-old daughter Lana. I read last night before i went to work and i was laughing all the way thru. I even caught myself laughing at work just thinking about it! I hope no one saw me! (laughing to myself,that is)
I truly do appreciate her sense of humor. I think she should write an editorial column for the local newspaper.