Dancing with the Stars

Alas...Paulina was voted off. Sad, but true. I must admit that she was the least skilled at dancing and really, her make-up made her look like she was OLD! Sorry, Paulina..not really looking very supermodelish! Luckily, I got all the scoop from Kristie's blog (www.notquitewhatihadplanned.blogspot.com) so I know that Heather Mills' leg will not fly off. Whew! I can now watch in peace!

Vacations

Okay, here you see this beautiful vacations spot filled with sunshine, warm beaches, and palm trees. This is NOT what I am looking forward to experiencing. My family and I are leaving in two days to go to Sunriver, a resort about 3.5 hours away from Portland. One would think that we are in (almost) April...it should be getting warm and sunny. Clearly since Sunriver is in the high desert, it is not going to be white sand beaches, warm water, and palm trees, but I was hoping for sun and warm days.

I talked with my parents today and they told me that we may be looking forward to something that looks more like this. So, we may get snow and the weather may be freezing. I HATE THE COLD!!! I am not naive...I live in Oregon, but I thought that I had put away my cold weather clothes for the time being...I gues I had better start looking at what the weather may be in Boston.....

Ahhh...spring may be sprung!

Transformation

Today I had the second work day for my SELP class. This class is part of the curriculum for living through Landmark Education. This education has been powerful in my life. I cannot begin to describe the level at which it has changed my perspective. I have completed my relationship with my mother and I have begun to realize that my inability to complete that relationship (all these years) has frozen me from completing many other things in my life. That has been a powerful realization for me.

I am taking a stand for those in my life that can benefit from this education..

One step at a time!

More lacrosse

Yes folks, we had a game tonight and (by the grace of God and whatever Karma was with us!) we won! The other team came and only had nine players. The coach and I talked and decided that we would also play with only nine.

So, here we are, with a load of subs, and them with only 9 players. You would think that we would dominate, right? Um...no! We are losing at half time (what is going on? Have I told them that we have a ton of subs? Why can't we pass and catch the ball?).

I swear we play to the level of the team. We should have been dominating and we couldn't get it together. We would shoot directly at the goalie, not at the open space...it was annoying!

So to make a long story short, with only 4 minutes to go in the game, we woke up and scored 5 goals...Yeah! (*smile*)

So, we are in second in our division and second in the while league. GO figure. Imagine what we could do if we actually played well. I shudder to think!

Migranes SUCK!!

I swear, I hate migranes. This is a two day-er. I feel like I am going to puke. Ok, I kind of wish I could puke, maybe it would make it better. I don't know! I really feel like my head is going to explode. I almost wish that I could put a vice on my head to counteract the pressure. MAKE IT STOP!!!

I would love to write about how great I hope the girls do tomorrow against Beaverton, but mostly I feel nauseus cuz my head is KILLING ME!

I'll try again tomorrow!

Javad

Today was one of those days when life was "almost normal." Javad was (almost, sort of) just like any other five year old. I went and met a friend for coffee and came home to take over care of Javad from David. I packed Javad up and we went to run errands. We went to Costco (where he sat in the cart, looking around like the big man he is), dropped Stesha off to get a ride out to Newberg, went to Fred Meyer, then to my parents. Javad was so cute, riding in the back seat, smiling out the window. I guess the big clue that he isn't the average five year old boy would have been the ventilator attached to the back of the passenger seat which he was wearing the whole car ride. Aaahhh. That sounds sadly normal to me! Two years ago, he would not been able to handle that long of a day in the car, so we really have moved very far down the road.

I look forward to the next years and seeing where we might go.

Happy one day, bummer the next!

Well, the high from winning yesterday against Grant with a score of 11-4 was met with a crushing loss against West Linn today with a score of 12-6.

We move forward...Next week, round two!