Dates With My Fabulous Are Wonderful

Awe, just rereading the title makes me happy!!

We went on a date with our 30 something church group. And it was AWESOME!! A wonderful, terrific, awesome, fantastic and super funny evening.

Tommy looked hot, and the kids said we looked nice, but that it was disgusting when we kissed. So sweet.

It was a real, real, real, real, real, it really was a real date. Really! Dressed up, dinner reservations, great friends, lots and lots of laughs. So enjoy the pictures, because I just can't put into words how great it was.

Looking good

Some of the greatest people in the world!!

And here is how we were greeted by our kids the following morning . . .

GOOD STUFF!!

One of The Best Days Ever, For No Reason At All, Just Because

I LOVE MY LIFE!!!

Today was a great day, just because!

My mother-in-law knows how much I love the phrase 'just because'. I used to update her on our life on occasion (before I got super duper lazy) and always titled it Just Because. Tommy (the fabulous man, who loves me no matter what) started that though. He said that you shouldn't send cards just for birthdays or write love letters only on special occasions, but just because. I thought it was pretty fabulous and it will stay with me.

My fabulous kissed me goodbye and hugged me before he left for work and our children were angels this morning. I know God was just gracing me with a good morning cause I was nice most of the day yesterday :).  I went back to bed, yep, LUCKY!!! When I got up, I sat in the quiet and drank my cup of coffee and immediately wished it was 3:45 because then my life would all be home. It was just one of those great moments when you realize how truly truly lucky and blessed you are. I went and got my eyebrows waxed!!!!!!! They look fabulous, thank you Mrs. Amanda Beck at the Wild Hair Salon for your gracious talent!! Getting my eyebrows done always makes me feel beautiful. For some people it is manicures and pedicures, for me it is eyebrows. I enjoyed a lunch of cherry lime aid from Rialto in Alva and chips and dip at home. I know crazy right, who does that!! Hope I can fit into my dress for our date tomorrow night??? Then I read a magazine and surfed the net, played with the blog. Still learning, anyone have any tips? I then cheated on supper and bought pre-made fried chicken, warmed it up and TADA instant cook. My fabulous came home and the first thing he does is  . . . give me a kiss. How great is that! Then our kids get off the bus and they all had good days. I am thinking by now that I am dreaming, have to be!! And get this, Harley got an 80% on his AR book test. Might not sound like much to some but we have struggled with the AR test! I threw a little party and did a little dance. And he smiled, so I will do that more often! They did their homework, ate supper, played together nicely. I am NOT making this stuff up. Honest. I know I ought to be done, but it gets better. Libby and Harley cleaned the bathroom, and they only argued over who got to clean the toilet. NEVER and I do mean NEVER have they cleaned anything but their rooms without my help. I am almost hyperventilating by now. So I use the good 'ol inhaler so I don't pass out. After they are done, they all take their showers, pick up their rooms, and lay out their clothes for tomorrow. Emmy paints Libby's fingernails and Harley colors in his room. When bedtime comes around I don't have to yell and beg and neither does my fabulous. What is the deal? The rest of the night is normal, and my favorite time of life, I tuck my kids in. They all tell me they love me and I tell them the same. Wish I could explain it so that they really understood how much. I get kisses and hugs from all three. How could this not be heaven? And then Tommy does the same and says prayers with them. It is my heaven on Earth.

The Best Day Ever, Just Because!!!

Libby and Rhino, she named him after some guy on Trick My Truck, her favorite show.

I love her smile!

Flag football star!

Changing

We change. Life changes us, we change life, maybe a little of both. Our excitement for the week, du, du, duuuuu . . . .

Tommy and I started going to a parenting class tonight at our church. I know you are all thinking, how can you improve perfection. THE END!

Okay but really, parenting class, always room for improvement! And lucky you, you get to join us on this spectacular journey to greatness.

We have learned a great deal from each other. Tommy is more patient than I am, and I am more comforting than he is. We are complete opposites and THANK GOODNESS. We are both completely committed to our family though, completely, all the way! We are hoping that we take alot from this class, I am hoping to learn how to do it all and do it right and he is hoping he learns to be just like me (just ask him), quit laughing. I am pretty great after all. I believe with Tommy I can do it all, and with God we can do it right!

I am pretty excited, there are quite a few people in our class. I hope to learn from them all. I hope to learn how to make our children proud to call us their parents. We want their memories to be more good than bad, and we want them to know that we really wanted to be the best we could for them. They know we are taking this class, they know we love them, they just don't realize how much! And they won't until they become parents themselves. I know now that my parents were really serious when the said, "I can't wait til you have kids!!" You know, in that kinda ugly voice. So funny then, not so much now. I know I will never say that to my kids (bout peed myself laughing there), ya right. But they loved me, probably didn't like me much sometimes though.

We change, I was different ten years ago, I was different five years ago. If you could see true heart pictures of my life at these times you would be amazed that it is the same person. I guarantee the same thing goes for Tommy. We are constantly changing, Tommy because he is always dirty and me because I CAN'T wear white, just kidding, but I really can't wear white.

Life changes us, every day, every moment we make a choice. We have messed up countless times and we will mess up countless times more. It takes me longer to realize I am doing the same thing over and over again and am consistently getting the same cruddy result and it takes Tommy longer to admit it when he does. But when we do realize it, we both know that life has changed us.

We change life, we are choosing to be better. We don't have to be. We could continue with our mediocre existence, but we won't. It is always time to change, always time to work on ourselves, because someone else is watching us now. And our three someones deserve great parents, so we will definitely strive to be the kind they deserve.