Making It Work

We have a fair number of crows that live in our neighborhood and they are always finding ways to amaze and sometimes disgust us.  Lately there is a crow that has been cracking nuts on the road in front of our house.  He takes a nut, flies up about 15-20 feet and drops the nut over and over.  The first time I saw it I thought it was just a crazy bird until I figured out what it was doing.  We've watched it for a couple weeks now and that seems to be the preferred method of opening nuts, though my husband claims he's also seen crows leave nuts in the road and watch for someone to run them over.  He says they are really smart and has several really good crow stories.  Ask him about it sometime.

 

Anyway the lesson I learned from this crazy bird is that sometimes we just have to find a way to make things work; kids get sick, cars break down, dinner gets burned, people fall through.  My motto lately is "adapt" or "be flexible."  Stressing about the situation does nothing to change it so all you can do is choose a plan of action and make it work.  Most days will pass wether much gets done or not, what does matter on days like this is if you snaped at your kids or your friends and damaged relationships with unkind words.  I need to work on this one.  Here's to a week of trying a little harder to be patient when things don't go as planned.  Wish me luck.

Number 5

When you're little birthdays are a really big deal.  This year we had so much fun doing our not-so-little boy's favorite things. First, we opened presents...

then we took pictures with his camera.

 We made spiders to put on his cake...then we ate them. 

 We carved pumpkins, okay so maybe that was my favorite.

 We finnished the day by building legos and playing games.

Here's to another great year little one.  I'm so proud of the little man you're becoming.

The Team Player

Growing up I pretty much decided that I should never play team sports.  We used to play basketball in the driveway at home and there were always fouls left and right (partially because we were so bad at basketball that fouling was the only way to get the ball and partially becuase we didn't know the rules very well).  I had a very aggressive nature and soon realized that it was better if I stuck to sports where the competitors were seperated by a net.  I did make an exception and played intermural flag football in college with my roomates; we had so much fun but got called for unneccisary roughness many times. 

 

In high school I played tennis and after a year and a half playing doubles my coach figured out I did better on my own.  In college I played intermural tennis, dodgeball, volleyball and flag football.  In all the time I played it was all about having fun and I was never very competitive and I never played on a cohesive team, until now.

 

I started playing with a team at church three years ago.  This is my third year playing with these ladies and I love it.  Our season is only about 9 weeks long but I look forward to it every year.  I've learned so much about being part of a team and being in it together.  We have two more games until the season's over and I will be so sad.  Thanks ladies for turning me into a real team player!