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Welcome 2020!

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      Welcome 2020! Welcoming a new year is always exciting and new; like a journal that has crisp unblemished pages. I always feel prepared to make resolutions and set new goals for myself; I don’t always keep my resolutions and goals, but I do enjoy making them. Maybe setting a resolution for keeping my resolutions...what a novel idea.       I’ve even talked with the kids about setting a goal and I think they are considering it. I gave a few suggestions and we talked about what goals were and which ones they could accomplish, so we will see.       Isaac, our big FIRST grader, is one of the funniest boys around. He still has his own way of pronouncing various words, like “combvine” instead of combine and “facipier” instead of pacifier. He’s the cutest kid. He loves to play Minecraft and, for whatever reason, watch other kids play Minecraft on YouTube Kids. I don’t really understand that one. He also enjoys explaining things to us and can talk a blue streak if he’s chatting about a
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Wow! So apparently I have forgotten how to write on this blog. It has only been a solid year since the last entry. Yikes.       So...not much has changed around here, I mean except for Isaac going to kindergarten, Brooke starting preschool, the kids each taking a trip with Nanner and Big Guy to Florida, and our newest addition being born. So, yeah, not much.       So Isaac enrolled in kindergarten (!?!) already. I mean he was literally just born and now he's going off to school like a big boy. He had a slightly rough start to school, which honestly wasn't a surprise as change and new transitions are hard for him, but he ended up loving kindergarten. He loved his friends, he loved the free choice stations, he loved recess, but most of all he loved his teacher Ms. Stevens. She was unendingly patient with him and caring. She helped him learn how to work with others and function in a school setting. He also had a wonderful school counselor, Mrs. Newman, who came in to every cla
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Summer Winds Down

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This has been a whirlwind of a summer! It's crazy how one summer can be so many things at once: busy, quiet, calm, predictable, wild, and now...over. The kids began the summer with swim lessons from the town of Speedway. The swim lessons were held at Speedway High School each weekday for thirty minutes. Brooke was apprehensive before the lessons began, she has never had her swimmies of in the pool before and was concerned about getting in without them. Brooke went from dreading the lessons and crying while getting in the pool to loving her lessons. This change was directly related to the fact that she developed a small crush on one of the swimming teachers. Isaac loved the lessons, he took off his swimmies last year and has never looked back. He spent a good deal of time playing with the other three boys in his group level but did learn the front stroke. This summer also gave us time to visit: the Avon Splash Pad, the free summer movie offering at the Danville Royal Theater,
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January/February 2018

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Well, we rang in 2018 in the Lawrence household with two of us, Brooke and Me, sick with the flu. Brooke had a rough morning, but she bounced back pretty quickly and was better by Sunday afternoon. I was sick/under the weather for a few days after. Brooke recovered and now both kids are sick again. Both with fevers, coughing, phlegm, hacking, and snotty noses. It's pretty frustrating. They get sick, then get better, then get sick again, then get a little better. This flu season is brutal all over the country. So many sick and worse. I will be so thankful when this flu season is over! Right now I am home on a vacation day (Presidents' Day) and Isaac and I are writing letters and numbers. He is always resistant at first when we are doing schoolwork, but he generally comes around. I cannot believe that he will be ready for kindergarten next year. I am not quite ready for this season of life!  A boy and his dog Elsa - using her freezing power on Mommy Isaac is
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Brooke's Obsession

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      Brookie is the funniest girl! She has a love/hate relationship with inflatables people put up in their yards. During the middle of October, people decorated their yards with Halloween lights, fake tombstones, "skeletones" and those large inflatables that are tied down to front yards. Some of these inflatables, or "blow up thangs", as Brooke calls them were cutesy (Snoopy, a cat sitting on a pumpkin) and some were scarier (Frankensteins, witches, monsters).  Brooke has a fascination with all of these inflatables we saw...I would certainly categorize it as a love/hate relationship. She desperately wanted us to drive by them, and then stop in the middle of the street so she could see them in detail; however, when we stopped, she said, "I don't like that. That's scary." As we drove away, she cried, "Stop! I want to see." It was an interesting conflict she had going on.       Well, after she saw the October inflatables, people began to
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The Next Ten Years

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In a decade, I would love to have: *Finished writing my fiction books *Published at least one of my books *a better grasp on being more organized  *matured to be a stronger, more godly leader for my children *matured to be a stronger example of a godly wife to my husband *grown in my relationship with Jesus *memorized more Scripture
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Sweet Sixteen

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Sixteen years ago, a classmate stopped me after our college English class to suggest we get together to revise our research papers, which were fast approaching their due date. We stood outside the Mary Cable Building, which isn't even standing anymore, on an afternoon in late September when he asked if I was free to "study." We decided to meet up two days later, after our next class, and go to my house. As we headed to our cars, I still remember telling him, "Just follow me. And just to let you know, I don't speed in school zones." I still don't speed...in school zones.  I can't remember a single detail of our afternoon; except that we didn't get out our papers one single time. The evening ended with pizza and a walk around my apartment complex. Just after sundown, we stopped next to the pool.  He sat down and pulled me to him and he kissed me. This evening began a relationship that has lasted all this time. A little after two years after ou
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