May

Well my last post told about Lent and Easter which I think brought us to the first weekend in April. The rest of April was pretty routine. Routine as in busy with school and church and Eric frantically trying to complete research papers and reading assignments; you know, that kind of routine. Well May was a complete blur...particularly the first 2 weeks of May. Let me sum up:

* At long last, Eric graduated with his Masters of Arts degree in Theology on May 8. We all (the 5 of us and my parents) went to Nashville to watch him walk. Mom and Dad stayed with Eric's folks and we stayed at Dawn and Brad's so the kids could play. My oldest niece, Audra, had just had her 10th birthday the day before we got there and Ethan's 6th birthday was on Sunday the 9th AND Mother's Day was also that Sunday. It was quite the weekend of celebrations. We got to leave all 5 kids with a babysitter that Sat. of graduation to have a wonderful meal at a nice restaurant and some sweet friends from here (who now live in the Nashville area) were able to join us. I left that weekend feeling very blessed and thankful.

* The very next weekend was Ethan's birthday party here at our house and also Jaylie's first ever ballet recital. Jerry and Joyce came down here for that weekend of more celebrations. We had a lot of fun. Ethan enjoyed his friends and his party. Jaylie's recital was beautiful. It was just another wonderful weekend.

* The rest of the month consisted of state testing at Isaac's school, end of the year Fun Days, Field Days and parties. The day school let out, my parents took the kids on to Galveston. We followed them on Sunday after church. So Eric and I had a couple of days of eating out and seeing a movie and just doing whatever we wanted, which is always nice. Unfortunately, mom and dad wound up having to handle the first-ever Livingston kid stitches. Ethan busted his head on my Pawpaw's dresser and gashed it open. 3 stitches, some tears and a couple of hours later, they finished their trip and got to Galveston with no more incidents.

So look, we're up to June! Now I'm just a couple of weeks off. I do have more to say than just a rehashing of our daily activities. I do think deep thoughts, but thought that I needed to get this thing up to speed, for context purposes.

Hope everyone is well and happy and managing to stay cool. Currently I'm sweating; I hate sweating. Off to the pool!

Much love
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