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This won’t be the sort of post with a focused topic and nice, clean ending.  I think I’ll ramble a bit.  This season of my life feels like it’s all over the place, so why not my post?  I’m glad you agree.

Randy was out of town this week from Monday afternoon through (hopefully) about an hour from now.  Yes, he comes home tonight.  Whenever he’s out of town, I always think of single moms, who rarely get a break.  Or those moms with husbands who travel A LOT, or have husbands serving overseas.  I know for sure that God must give those women a special helping of strength and patience.

We managed to get through another school week with most everything done, Abbey finished her class portion of Drivers Ed (drive time sometime in the summer), we bought some supplies for our “Steelers win another super bowl” party, and I marked a few things off of my ever-growing to-do list.  Progress is progress.

Oh, I finished “Choosing to See” by Mary Beth Chapman.  Cried, held back tears, and sat in awe at her honest account of the grieving that her family has been through.  If you’ve not read it yet, run to the bookstore and get it.

I’ve started 2 other books.  “Organized Simplicity” by Tsh Oxenreider is giving me the urge to purge everything in my house that I don’t find purposeful or absolutely love.  I told Randy he fits both categories so he’s happy.  I truly want to live more simply, and this book promises to show me how to do that.  I’m hopeful.  I also started “Radical” by David Platt.   I’m only in the 2nd chapter and it’s already mind blowing.  Thanks to my handy dandy new e-reader, I’m flipping back and forth with these two…gotta love that.

Dylan is eating much better these days, but he’s still not a great eater.  We realized tonight he LOVES pickles.  Oh, great.  Just the smell of pickles makes me wretch.  And, he’s sucking on the thing like it’s a candy.

Only my husband would spend his evening throwing fish crackers at everyone, aiming for mouths.  Ending in me being pelted by a barrage of crackers.

The littles, as I’ve come to lazily call them, showing off their new NCSU shirts.  Our wonderful friend, Donna Judd, sent these to Lainey and Dylan this week.  Our family and Donna go WAY back.  I met her at church, right before becoming pregnant with the triplets.  Soon after they were born, she told me she wanted to help me out once a week.  She came each week, usually carrying a grocery bag full of cereals and other stuff the kids loved.  Then, she told me to go nap or run errands…whatever I wanted to do.  It was absolutely magical.  She did this for THREE years.  A true blessing!

Anyway, she saw that Dylan loved his squeaky shoes from China and told me about her friends from church that have their own squeaky shoe company.  I browsed the shoes and was considering buying a pair, when Donna told me her friend wanted to send Dylan a pair free of charge.  Wow!  We chose the NCSU ones, of course :)

See the emblem on the top?  He loves them!  The website is www.squeakmeshoes.com  Go check them out!

Anyone ever try the new almond snickers?  I have one in my purse.  Think I might try it tonight.

I’m sitting here blogging when I should be putting Dylan and Lainey to bed.  He’s beside me whining right now…gotta run :)