She still calls me mommy

Things from the week:
Skyler is in Florida, i miss that girl, she calls me mommy when she says bye. It makes me want to cry. In a good way.
Donnie Osmond is going to do a personal concert in some lucky mom's home for Mothers Day.
You have to register somehow on Dalila's evening show on KGBX.
We only have five days left til we move.
We are not packing fast enough(in my opinion anyway)
We will be living across the street from a guy I went to church with for years while I was a kid.
Sun, Sun and more sun!!!
There is way less laundry around here when Sky is out of town. I will be glad to have more laundry.
Natalie is four today.
Morgan Wilson is 13 tomorrow.
Supreme Casserole from Jan Bemarkt in the new church cookbook is amazing!
Did I mention we only have 5 days til we move?

To christa

Since you mentioned reading the blogs, i just wanted to tell you how much fun it was to sit and talk yesterday morning. I know we have said this before, but i only laugh like that with a few people, and it is wonderful to have those memories to laugh over again and again. I have a laugh that appears most when I am laughing with you, and once in Target I was reading a card, laughing out loud when Mark said from an isle over, "Christa, is that you?" I don't even remember what the card said, but it was worthy of the "Christa" laugh. Thanks for being my friend all these many years. i will show you that post card soon.

longwinded

I am sitting in the kitchen that now for all intents and purposes belongs to someone else. And i have to admit to a bit, just a bit, of sadness. But with that bit of sadness is joy unspeakable--just a few more weeks, and we will be home. See, i already think of our house in rogersville as home. So exciting.
Mark and Barrett are sick. They are both sleeping, with fevers(Mark slight, Barrett 100.2 for now)sore throats, but not strep. Barrett is upset cause he is missing football practice, but did finally admit he doesn't feel like being there. Skyler is at a ball game, and I am trying to come up with something for supper.
I want to share something with you my blogging friends. I am almost 40 (shock) years old. But I still want my parents to be proud of me. I guess that will never change, will it? My parents and sister and her family went with us on Saturday to see the new house. I knew my sis would like it, and i was fairly sure my parents would. But I so wanted them to believe we have made a good choice. Mark's parents have already seen it, love it and let us know they are happy for us. So to have my parents feel that way too, is a great feeling that makes me feel a little giggly inside i must say. And also, just so they know, I am pretty proud of my parents too. And I am gonna tell you why.
My family has always gone to church. My two oldest brothers don't go anymore, but we are praying that they will soon. But my parents, me, min and my youngest brother have all stayed in church. But I have never seen my parents as excited and as involved as they have been since they started going to Broadway Baptist. Now of course i wish they went to HSBC. But they visited and it was just not right for them. They still come to hear us sing of course, but they have really found a home at Broadway. They are active in their class, they go on trips and activities, they are there all the time as long as they aren't sick, and they have found a renewed joy in the Lord. Have they told me this? No, i have seen it happening in their lives the last few years. And it is so cool to see. Today my dad told me about how the Lord had already given them back something that they had given away for Him. I can't share details, but I can't tell you how cool it is to share God's goodness and the way he alone can bring about blessings with your parents. It is also so great to be able to then share that with my kids, to show them that God is working in all our lives, and wants us to share that with each other.
Long post, i know. But i just had to share. Thanks for reading.