My sister Dione has been staying with us since last Saturday and our families have had many a funny moment.
For example, yesterday my brother-in-law decided to challenge his boys and mine to roll in the snow. Of course there was some bribing involved in the form of hamburgers. The boys being typical teenage boys jumped on the chance to get free food. Andrew stripped down to his soccer compression shorts, the rest of the boys stripped down to their shorts and John even joined in the party and rolled up his pants took off his shirt. I think we could have been cited for indecent exposure with the amount of skin showing on the gang. They not only rolled once but actually ran out a second time to make snow angels belly side down. I have great video to prove the moment.
My second funny came from the little boy I babysit. Jackson has this funny thing with asking someone's name hundreds of times. This happened with John. Jackson kept asking his name and, after answering quite a few times, John decided to start telling him different names. Goerge, Fred, Sally.... you get the idea. But the name that stuck? Martha. Jackson remembered Martha and since he is required to call me Miss Becky, John told Jackson he had to call him Miss Martha. Yep for 2 days Jackson called Miss Martha's name constantly. Every time I heard Jackson I giggled.
I have also had very little sleep. Monday Dione and I were up until 4:30 in the morning and then I was back up by 6:30 to babysit. Tuesday night I stayed up until 2:30 talking with my mom and then was back up by 6:30 again. Wednesday was a little better, I got to sleep by 1:30 with the same wake up time. Honestly, by last night I was so loopy that when we went out to dinner with some really good friends of ours I was completely out of character. I honestly keep thinking back to last night and get really embarrassed. Seriously, what was wrong with me. I talked non stop, was gossipy, and even used a word that would never come out of my mouth. Embarrassing! And then this morning I was really ornery. My poor kids.
I am not complaining at all though, I love having company! After the Christmas party that we hosted Tuesday night where we had 50 people in attendance, we had a major sleep over. My parents were in Andrew's room, Andrew and my niece's fiance were in the downstairs family room, Rachael and 2 of her cousins that are her age were in her bedroom, and Then of course my sister's family upstairs in a few bedrooms. So crazy good. Mark kept teasing me though that he purposely went to work to escape the wild pandemonium happening at home. I am sure he was only half teasing.
My post title was year in review but I am starting to realize that I would write all night if I reviewed. I will try to recap. There was of course 4 surgeries, 3 biopsies, and a myriad of other more minor health issues. We did however learn from the pulmonologist that Mark is officially cancer free which we definitely celebrated.
We have made some really neat friends this year. Brandt and Kelli and their family, Nik, Jeff, Mette, and Bonnie from my work We of course have continued wonderful relationships with friends of yesteryear. The whole make new friends but keep the old adage.
We did however have 2 families move away from the area that left gaping holes in our hearts. My sister and her husband that are visiting us moved to New Mexico. We all cried buckets of tears the day they rolled out and of course many days since. I know they were guided and directed to the place where they are now so I can't really complain becuse I would be going against what I know is the Lord's will. So, instead I just count down the days until the time we get to see each other. Lucky for us their daughter is getting married in March so this time around it will only be 3 months between seeing each other instead of the 6 months of last time.
The other family were very close friends of ours who moved to Japan due to a military transfer. Once again I cried when they left and have had many sad moments in the months since. Unfortunately the likelyhood of seeing them anytime in the next 3 years is not very great. We pray for their continued success in Japan and can't wait for the day when we can reunite.
Mark has accomplished much at work and is loving his job, I am now working from home babysitting and now love my job. We are so happy in our callings and love serving in our church. Really we love love love life. Even with all the junky junk, we love the happy happenings that make up our every day. There is so much to have joy in.
For example, yesterday my brother-in-law decided to challenge his boys and mine to roll in the snow. Of course there was some bribing involved in the form of hamburgers. The boys being typical teenage boys jumped on the chance to get free food. Andrew stripped down to his soccer compression shorts, the rest of the boys stripped down to their shorts and John even joined in the party and rolled up his pants took off his shirt. I think we could have been cited for indecent exposure with the amount of skin showing on the gang. They not only rolled once but actually ran out a second time to make snow angels belly side down. I have great video to prove the moment.
My second funny came from the little boy I babysit. Jackson has this funny thing with asking someone's name hundreds of times. This happened with John. Jackson kept asking his name and, after answering quite a few times, John decided to start telling him different names. Goerge, Fred, Sally.... you get the idea. But the name that stuck? Martha. Jackson remembered Martha and since he is required to call me Miss Becky, John told Jackson he had to call him Miss Martha. Yep for 2 days Jackson called Miss Martha's name constantly. Every time I heard Jackson I giggled.
I have also had very little sleep. Monday Dione and I were up until 4:30 in the morning and then I was back up by 6:30 to babysit. Tuesday night I stayed up until 2:30 talking with my mom and then was back up by 6:30 again. Wednesday was a little better, I got to sleep by 1:30 with the same wake up time. Honestly, by last night I was so loopy that when we went out to dinner with some really good friends of ours I was completely out of character. I honestly keep thinking back to last night and get really embarrassed. Seriously, what was wrong with me. I talked non stop, was gossipy, and even used a word that would never come out of my mouth. Embarrassing! And then this morning I was really ornery. My poor kids.
I am not complaining at all though, I love having company! After the Christmas party that we hosted Tuesday night where we had 50 people in attendance, we had a major sleep over. My parents were in Andrew's room, Andrew and my niece's fiance were in the downstairs family room, Rachael and 2 of her cousins that are her age were in her bedroom, and Then of course my sister's family upstairs in a few bedrooms. So crazy good. Mark kept teasing me though that he purposely went to work to escape the wild pandemonium happening at home. I am sure he was only half teasing.
My post title was year in review but I am starting to realize that I would write all night if I reviewed. I will try to recap. There was of course 4 surgeries, 3 biopsies, and a myriad of other more minor health issues. We did however learn from the pulmonologist that Mark is officially cancer free which we definitely celebrated.
We have made some really neat friends this year. Brandt and Kelli and their family, Nik, Jeff, Mette, and Bonnie from my work We of course have continued wonderful relationships with friends of yesteryear. The whole make new friends but keep the old adage.
We did however have 2 families move away from the area that left gaping holes in our hearts. My sister and her husband that are visiting us moved to New Mexico. We all cried buckets of tears the day they rolled out and of course many days since. I know they were guided and directed to the place where they are now so I can't really complain becuse I would be going against what I know is the Lord's will. So, instead I just count down the days until the time we get to see each other. Lucky for us their daughter is getting married in March so this time around it will only be 3 months between seeing each other instead of the 6 months of last time.
The other family were very close friends of ours who moved to Japan due to a military transfer. Once again I cried when they left and have had many sad moments in the months since. Unfortunately the likelyhood of seeing them anytime in the next 3 years is not very great. We pray for their continued success in Japan and can't wait for the day when we can reunite.
Mark has accomplished much at work and is loving his job, I am now working from home babysitting and now love my job. We are so happy in our callings and love serving in our church. Really we love love love life. Even with all the junky junk, we love the happy happenings that make up our every day. There is so much to have joy in.
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