recap fridays

a new tradition i am inventing...
recap fridays.
i tend to forget what we do all day. all week. all year.
the dreaded question "what have you been up to?" baffles me with the inabilty to remember anything.
so this is me, recaping.

i:

-found out that i am obsessed with figuring out how to make purses. i often obsess over the array of bags, esp hobo/leather/large-marge bags at Target. i study their construction. take picutres of them with my camera phone. peruse the pics at home. scheme how to make each one.

-checked my blog 47,000 times everyday to see our adoption fundraiser progress.

-swirled around with giddy merriment each day as we are SO close to our goal! we have some seriously generous friends! a few more entries and we can find out who wins!!!

-played in the brilliantly huge sandbox clint made from spare wood (it is so big he had to borrow a REAL dumptruck to bring in the sand!)

-cheered clint's providence softball team (ok, i'll be honest. the fact that they had 5 games in 2 weeks kept my attitude a bit "questionable" but we survived.) he hit a grand slam. he is officially awesome.

-went crazy at the car dealership while my car door was getting fixed (acctually, it's still not fixed. long story. don't get me started).

-met a friend for dinner at 10pm! i felt all young and new again. not sure where my youth went, but i got it back. or at least it visited for an evening and then left again.

-ate molten-chocolate lava cake at chili's TWICE in one week. not one of my better diet moments.

-kissed foster's scungy monkey at least 73 times. apparently, it need a kiss everytime foster needs one. i think scungy monkey needs a bath :)

-continued my serious obsession with my kids. esp how they look in pictures. i look at the same pictures over and over and study their cuteness. i think i could tell you every little detail about them. i know that rowie's hair curls slighly to the right in the back-most region of his head, esp when he sleeps on damp hair. i know that foster has a light birthmark on the upper-inner-portion of his right arm that most people have never noticed. i know rowan's skin is so see-through-white that the veins in his forhead are quite pronounced, especially in late morning light. i know foster's cheezy smile from his real one. i know rowan thinks he's invisible when he hides behind my legs. i know foster's love language is words of affirmation. i know rowan's love language is touch. i know that foster has his tounge out in 90% of action shots. i know that rowan contemplates the perfect moment to smile, and then looks down, and then back up and the down again. such a tease :). i know that they are the cutest little guys i've even layed eyes on. i'm insanely, rediculously in love with them. spending each day loving them is the best thing i could ever do. i'll live in a box, eat ramen noodles for every meal, and drink water from a leaf if that's what it takes.

(pic by linds)

-it's been one of those weeks that makes you realize that people are more generous that you realize....more thoughtful...full of compassion...free of judgment...and it makes you realize how much you can learn from such a realization.

(pic by linds)

-it's been a week of glorious, refreshing, faith-building triumph.