So, we are well into April, and I am still trying to get my act together for recording March. This happens EVERY year. January and February pass by smoothly, them March comes in roaring like a lion and doesn't quit roaring until sometime in July. I'm not sure why, but that's just how it always happens. This fact has become so true in my life that over the years, I now find myself mentally preparing for this season of life the whole last week of February. I have to take deep breaths and remind myself that nothing is more important than God, Joey, and my kids, and whatever else I manage to cram into the spaces is an added blessing. So, February 28th or 29th, every year, I take a deep breath and dive in.....
1) George's birthday (who I forgot to call...again, but I'm praying he forgives me again because that's just the kind of man my Meema married=)2) Destin's 30th birthday party--much fun had by the boys playing paintball, and apparently testing how close they could shoot at their lower regions--BOYS.
3) A night out with some dear girl friend's to celebrate all our March birthdays. I believe we actually shut down Maggiano's that night, we stayed out so late.
4) Granddaddy Frank's 88th birthday celebrated on the same day as his brother Uncle Howard, and their sister, Annie Laura came into town to visit. They are the last three siblings alive of the original 13. Wow. I can't even imagine what that must feel like. I hope my siblings are around to celebrate my 88th with me someday, and that they still care enough to want to come and be together.6) Quick trip to Birmingham to visit my amazing cousin April and Destin. Even a quick trip is always a lot of fun. We all being first borns like to get together and solve the world's problems with each other, especially family stuff ;) Never a dull moment. Thank you to my parents who let us go kid-free!
7) A couple's shower for Tyson Hill and Megan. Savannah will be in their wedding as the flower girl, and I can't wait to show you pictures of her in her dress! She is so excited!9) Attended my sister-in-love's first baby shower for little Hartley Elizabeth soon to make her appearance in May...can't wait!
10) And the last week was spent packing and preparing to head out of town for Girls Weekend 2011, but that started April 1st, so that's another post for another day.
11) Oh, and somewhere in there I managed to add a new Bible study on Thursday nights to get to know some of the sweet girls in our new Sunday School class--and yes, I still call it that--Sunday School.
And if you managed to hang with that long list of craziness, keep in mind that that was really just the weekends. Weeks full of gift shopping and buying, outfit planning and purchasing, kid toting and entertaining, laundry, feeding, eating, running, and sleeping aren't even recorded in that list. March madness indeed.
In all of the craziness, there were so many sweet moments with the kids though. From visits with their great-grandparents, playing on an ancient rocking horse--I promise shouldn't still be able to hold their weight--to mowing grass with daddy and thinking we are big stuff--Weston really was very serious about his lawn mowing. I had to work very hard to get him distracted enough to try to get a smile. 
Awe...lawn mowing wouldn't be complete without some blower action. Weston hangs in for the ride, but it doesn't take much for him to be over that quick. Savannah just twirls and dances in the wind--my little free spirit child. Sweetness.
April is well underway, but my gratefulness for March abounds. I pray you all are able to find God in the midst of your madness as well.
#102 that April is a perfectly good time to update on March--grace to us all:)
#103 the bouquets picked by a child's pure heart
#104 the smile on a child's face when they have a gift for Mama
#105 a family large and diverse that still finds time to celebrate life together
#106 for elders to honor and respect--great grandparents' lives worth emulating
#107 for sweet friends that take the time to have a good time and just belly laugh together
#108 a husband who stocks my freezer with hollow chocolate bunnies
#109 for warm sunshine and the faithfulness of the green of Spring
#110 that the flowers always bloom, even after the longest or hardest winter
#111 for siblings who cackle and howl and chase each other around the house
#112 for those sounds that fill our home that one day I will miss
#113 the God is faithful to fill in all the emptinesses of life
#114 for a place to belong in a church we can call home
#115 air conditioners, swimming pools, and cool whip
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