My rant for the day:
I think there is too much pressure out there to make everything we do everyday some type of celebration of life. While I try hard not to waste time, who can make everything into a celebration every day? It is exhausting and frankly, overkill. Not to mention the cost involved with paying for the daily celebrations. Valentine's Day is just such an event. It has become ridiculous. I am a Valentine and you would think that would make it our biggest holiday of the year, but mostly we try to downplay it because once people out there find out our last name, it becomes too much. We get questions like, were your kids born on Valentine's Day? Sure, we planned all of them that way. Or, were your married on Valentine's Day? Wouldn't that be just a little too much? My favorite, your husband must be so romantic. And while he most definitely is, I am pretty sure it isn't because of his last name. Yes, I am a Valentine's Day grinch. We do celebrate it, but not to the extent I think "those people" out there fantasize about. Let me say, that we don't really need a Valentine's Day because we work hard every day of the year to make our lives full of love and appreciation for one another. If you have to wait for Valentine's Day for declarations of love from your significant other, then something is wrong.
On to other things. Sarah got her new glasses this week and she looks so cute. They are purple and rectangles and she looks so different in them. I'll get a picture up asap. She was so excited to have them and I have never seen her so thrilled to go see the Dr. It is amazing how something as simple as a new pair of glasses can lift a person up. She has been walking on air for several days now.
Jacob came home from school sick yesterday and I mean really sick. He started throwing up and just couldn't stop. We are pretty sure he ate something funky at the free cafeteria food day on Thursday. I felt so bad for him and completely forgot I had signed up to help in Sarah's class for her Valentine's Day Party. Oh well, vomit trumps volunteering. Yesterday was Jacob's birthday movie celebration too. He has been waiting for three weeks for the Lightening Thief to come out in theaters and he was going with Daniel and his friend and doing a whole guy movie thing. He said they could just go without him but they wouldn't hear of it. Daniel and their friend Jordan decided they were going to intervene the best way they knew how. They went up to Daniel's room and said a prayer that Jacob would feel well enough to go. The faith of children got him through and he stopped throwing up, got his color back and felt well enough to go to the movies by the time it was time to go. I have no words for how amazing it is that these boys didn't want Jacob to miss his own birthday party movie enough that they would pray for him to be better so they could all go together. Even when Jacob was telling them to go without him. The best part was the high five they gave each other when they realized their faith worked. It is so wonderful that they felt comfortable enough with their testimonies to suggest they pray and that they were so supportive of the idea too. A lot of kids out there would just think that was weird. It is so comforting as a parent to have friends for my children that encourage them to not only believe in God but to make Him that much a part of their lives.
I am happy to report that Jacob is much better today and got out of his system whatever needed to be out.
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