Ode to Childhood Sunday Afternoons

Big navy bows to

top off the perfect 

hair-curling job

mom did before church.

Just enough 

Mary-Kay blush to make me feel

like a "big girl" ready for 

the Bible lesson.

White, itchy hose

that help my feet slip into the 

little

   black
      shiny Sunday shoes with a brass clasp.

And then, coming home
to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
and the most comfortable play clothes
I've ever worn, which take me back into my world
of jump ropes
    and dirt
        and hide-and-go-seek with the neighborhood kids.

how can you tell if you're tired and have allergies or if you're getting sick?

so remind me...

when comes the part of life when you never have a bad day

and you're never moody or emotional

and people are always kind and respectful to you

and you never roll your eyes at people

and you're always communicative and articulate?

It haaaaaasn't happened for me, yet.

FINE.

There is really, truly NOTHING in the world I want to do less right now than go volunteer at the free clinic.

NOTHING.

This better mean God has a specific reason for me going tonight.

YOU HEAR THAT?

Okay.

I'll go.

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

tomorrow is my last day of CLASS for graduate school.

granted, i'm FAR from finished, but tomorrow is my last day of classes. i have a presentation in both of them, so that's only appropriate.

then. it's
-1 clinical training day
-1 weight loss clinic training
-1 more meal with my cohort
-1 oral defense for my masters project
-1 final for an online class
-1 paper
-1 graduation :)  (well. commencement. i won't be official until september.)
-1 conference in Kansas City
-1, 10 week rotation at a hospital
-a few nights at the PNC
-a few mornings at the weight-loss clinic
-1 final CMP meeting (including a presentation)
-probably several things i need to complete and turn in such as a master list of competencies

-and then we head south, ya'll.

there's also a few fun trips and visits with people interspersed in there. which will make the time not only fun, but fly by.

yeesh, people. this is happening!  all of this in the next 3 months, 19 days, 18 hours, 10 minutes and 10 seconds, according to my count-down app.

AWOL

Soooo someone dropped off the planet!  (Sorry, that someone was me!) We made a spectacular trip down to Arkansas to celebrate my little sister's graduation from college!

Good thing we were there to celebrate HER rather than all the pomp and circumstance, because the morning of graduation she woke up half-dead and had to go to the emergency room. Bronchitis.

But you know what? She's still a college grad and still has everything in the world to be proud of! I didn't mind hanging out with her on the couch, watching TV, and appreciating the new stage of life she's just entered.

Way to go, Stacy!  Way to go!

(PS I also go to squeeze my nephews sooooooo that was fun. Caleb slept in Charlie and my room Friday night at the hotel and when he woke up upset in the middle of the night I couldn't stand it and put him in bed with us. Best night of sleep I've ever gotten with 25 pounds of drooling cuteness, hands and arms in my face! AGH!!!!)

I am so tired today.

Something that 2.5 cups of coffee and one chia tea latte couldn't fix.

I am SO SO SO excited for my cuzzy Ashleigh!  She's getting hitched to a real nice guy. And they're going to live happily ever after.

And she's going to be a PRINCESS at her wedding. I just know she's going to be stunning!

And I'm also selfishly excited that now I can be prettymostly sure that we'll be there for the wedding and wedding festivities. At least I hope we will be there for most of them! Yaaaaay!