Stink.

Pooh.  I am sad.

My really, really good friend is moving to California.  I am SO sad.  I could say that six times.  Maybe sixteen times.

Grrrrrrrrr!

Since moving here there have been only two women in my ward that I have become close friends with.  The first, Becky Staines, moved back to her home in England last May.  Just this morning I drove by her house and felt a deep ache inside.  Our family was really good friends with their whole family.  That doesn't happen a lot for us.  So I was thinking of our Sunday afternoons at the park with them, Friday nights hanging out and watching movies or playing Wii or whatever, hundreds of hours doing PTA work together.  All over.  And I felt empty inside.

Then tonight I find that my other dear friend, Selene, is moving with her family this May.  It's not fair!  They are the other family we hang out with.  Amelia idolizes 10 year old Heidi and Heidi is more than happy to play dress up with her forever.  Phoenix and Adam love to play with Jake and Andy, and I have worked with Selene in Young Women's for about three years and LOVE HER!  She makes me laugh all the time.  I can be 100% me, and we get each other.  Cortis is always fun to talk to and makes me laugh too.

I wish that everyone didn't move all the time.  I realize it is part of life now, but I wish things weren't so transient.  Even with this though, I don't like feeling left behind.  Maybe I will move.  Pack up the kids and move to, oh I don't know, North Carolina?  I'd rather seek out adventure with all new friends, than try to start making new friends with people who have always been around.  Does that sound weird?

Ugghh.  I'll be fine.  Really I have lots of nice people around that I love chatting with and laughing with and even do stuff with, but still......IT'S NOT FAIR!!

Maybe I'll sabotage their move.   Yes, I think that's what I'll do.

A Valentine's Date

My sweet schnoogie doons (Andrew) has been really needing some extra love lately, so Jacob and Amelia were picked up by Poppy in his super cool Jeep and taken away for a sleepover.

We had such a fun night!

*Made a ding and dash delivery to our Secret Valentine family

*Went to his favorite restaurant, Kerbey Lane, where he can get a big ole pancake any time of day
    (he excitedly announced to the waitress that he could down 10 pancakes at home, no problem).  We discussed all that he is learning at school, he taught me how to do fractions, he explained his version of the perfect dog and he told me a lot of jokes and riddles in his one volume voice

*Stopped by the library to check out books on bald eagles, but they were closed! Never fear, Red Box  to the rescue

*Watched Dolphin Tale.  I enjoyed the movie, but I spent a good portion of it watching my sons eyes shine as he watched this sweet animal rehabilitate.  What an animal lover he is.  And such a tender heart.

*I told him  he could sleep in my room tonight and I asked him to read the scriptures. He, of course, turned to Luke because that is the only place he ever seems to read.  We discussed parables.  He kept reading.  In the middle of his last verse he started giggling.  I was kind of falling asleep (shhh...)and didn't know what he was laughing at.  Finally he said, "Mommy?  We learned the weirdest song in music class and I can't get it out of my head!"  He started singing Puff The Magic Dragon, so of course I joined in.  He COULD NOT BELIEVE I knew the song too!  His eyes were huge!  "How do you know that song?!"

*I am totally crazy about him

*Again, such a fun night