forever friends

You know what I love? Well, lots of things. But, as I've mentioned to some of you recently, I love it when friends come unexpectedly back into my life. See, I love my friends. I might have mentioned that before. And I suffer much trauma when changes happen that take them out of my life. I might have mentioned that before too. ANYWAY, I absolutely LOVE it when those people just pop back into my life and brighten my day! That has happened several times recently, and I just wanted to say it makes me happy when I am reminded that forever friendship really does exist.

Blur

Today felt like a blur. Such a blur. Maybe mostly cuz this weekend went by so quickly and was so full of things to do! On Saturday, I had to get up really early to go to our Skeen family reunion in Wichita. My aunt and uncle, my cousin Debbie and her two kids Madison (2) and Chase (4 months) and my other cousin Aaron picked me up at 8:30 that morning. That's early for Saturday! Like I told them, there's nothing like a family reunion to ruin a perfectly good Saturday. LOL. Of course, I was mostly kidding. Anyway, it was a fun day and we did have a good time with all the family.

Then on Sunday morning, I held baby Chase almost the whole service, until I thought my arms would fall off. He weighs 17 pounds and he was asleep the whole time. After church we had dinner in the CLC because we had the Life Chain right after that. We all went to the Life Chain together, including the babies, and that was lots of fun. Even tho it's supposed to be a kind of solemn event, it was still fun. I got to see some people (former students and such) that I hadn't seen in a loooong time so that was amazingly cool!

Sunday afternoon we just sat around and talked and I graded papers, cuz I have so much to do before the quarter ends this week. After Sunday night church, we had a birthday party for Aaron cuz he will turn 31 on the 11th (tomorrow!) {Happy Birthday, Aaron!} Aunt Wanda made a chocolate sheet cake (yum!) and she made barbeque hamburger steaks which were amazing. We laughed and laughed at Madison because she figured out that if she did something cute, we would all clap at her, so instead of doing the cute stuff, she would just start clapping, hoping we would all join in. LOL. It was so funny. I think my brother got most of it on video so that should be hilarious to watch!

When I got home, it was close to midnight, and I just kinda fell into bed and I slept so hard that when my alarm went off this morning, I thought it was something else. I was dreaming that my car door was open, and my keys were in the ignition so it was making that annoying beeping sound. So I shut the car door and the beeping noise kept going. That's cuz it was really my alarm. Duh, Tawnya!

So today was a blur. I had so much to do and it felt like I was moving in a dream. Weird, huh! This week is going to go so fast -- I can just feel it. It's the last week of the quarter and I need to get busy with grading and all the other stuff that goes along with ending the quarter. Sigh...

Well, I hope everybody had a great day. It was beautiful here in KC. Great fall weather! Cara and I went walking this afternoon and it was just incredible out there!

I'm out, till next time.

Blessings

My nephew Colton drew this picture at school and it was posted online today. I'm very proud of him for his artistic ability. Don't you just love the colors?

I am very thankful for so many things. I thought I would just mention a few of them.

Friends. I'm thankful for my friends. Each of my friends is special and unique. I have the best friends in the world. Guy friends, girl friends, old friends, young friends...so many varieties and versions! It's amazing how many wonderfully different types of people God made. I am so grateful that we are not all alike!

Family. My family is amazing! I love the fact that God blessed me with wonderful Godly parents, a Christian home and heritage, and loving people who care about me even though they've known me all my life!

Students. My students are also my friends, but I'm so glad for the students God has sent my way this year! What a blessing they are! Even if I'm bummed out when I get to school, my students never fail to cheer me up and remind me why I'm there. The challenges and rewards cannot be expressed.

Those are just a few. There are so many other things that I could mention. My car. Movies. My church. Health. God's Word. So many blessings! What a great life! Life! Life is a blessing! Wow.

Gotta go to bed. I love you all. Leave me a comment and let me know you're alive and well. =)

Happy October

It's early Saturday morning, and I'm up, and I have no idea why! I will probably go back to bed here in a little bit and see if I can sleep some more. I love Saturdays! Days when I can just do my own thing and get caught up on things I don't have time for during the week! Cuz believe me, there are lots of things I don't have time for during the week!

So last night we rented and watched two great movies. Sahara (which I had already seen) and The Longest Yard (which I had not.) Steve Zahn makes me happy. I don't care what he's doing, or whether he's trying to be funny or not, he just makes me laugh. And Adam Sandler...always good for a laugh! There were a few objectionable parts to that movie but it was funny!

Anyway, today I am going to try to do some cleaning and organizing of the mess that is my life. I am not a very organized person, as some of you know, but the last few weeks have been so busy that I feel my entire life is in disarray. It's time to fix that so I can be more productive!

Better go...love to all!