Randomness

Did you think I had abandoned my blog?! Oh, it could be possible at any time...but not yet! This will be a kind of long post....I am just warning you. I have all sorts of random thoughts...

First, my sweet, sweet husband took me away (just like Calgon - smile) for Valentine's weekend. We went to Orange Beach, and let me just tell you, it was fabulous! Although it was just as cold there as it was here, there is something about the beach that just makes you feel warm and fuzzy! (Or maybe that was all of the Mardi Gras festivities!) We just relaxed....to the fullest...we didn't do one thing that we didn't want to and we took as long as we wanted to to do the things that we did do.....the boys...they stayed with Granddaddy and Mimi (THANK YOU!) so I don't even have to describe their weekend....of course they loved it. Suffice it to say that when we got there to pick them up, they both had rather extravagant fits because they "DID NOT WANT TO GO HOME"....ahhh, I felt so loved! (HA!)

We were out of school Monday, so we had a great time...who doesn't love to have a completely open day that they can TOTALLY fill with laundry?! But it was nice to be able to do it all in one day rather than stretch it out across the entire week.....

Tuesday Leighton started feeling not so great.....OH NO!!!! By this morning, he was in no shape to go to school. Bless his heart....I felt so sorry for him! You know when a 5 year old boy doesn't have the energy and want-to to play, then there is a definite problem. Top that off with a severe disregard for food and I knew I had a problem. (He will normally eat me out of house and home!) So, it was off to the doctor for us....tonsilitis....lots of congestion....2 antibiotics later, I hope we are on our road to recovery...but he has been such a trooper. And, of course, Logan has been...well...he has been Logan. Tonight when we got home, Leighton had his sights set on getting up the stairs to the couch...Logan had other plans......

(before I can continue with this story I have to give a little history on the cat(s))
When we came home on Christmas Eve night from Granddaddy and Mimi's we were greeted by a little kitten. (Oh joy! I am not a huge animal lover and even less of a lover of cats...but it made my boys so happy...all 3 of them!) So STEVIE found a home that night. Why STEVIE? Well, we still aren't really sure if it is a girl or a boy...I am thinking that since we don't yet have kittens, it is probably a boy, but who knows?! Anyway, Stevie is the friendliest cat, and, well, to be quite frank, I am not sure he/she is very smart....I think that trait can sometimes be mistaken as friendly. Like when she will NOT get out from under your feet when you are walking ANYWHERE. At first, I thought, FRIENDLY...now I am more of the thought STUPID....maybe he/she doesn't realize if I step wrong I will smush he/she. Anyway, not long after STEVIE came into our lives, ORANGE CAT arrived on the scene. He/She is MUCH more skiddish...like he/she has never come any closer than about 20 feet...but he/she has no problem eating all of the food that we buy! (That sounds a little like some teenagers I have known in the past. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come! HA!) Anyway, Logan is CRAZY about these cats. Leighton loves them appropriately, but Logan is just NUTS with his love! He wants to pick them up and feed them constantly. He also adores talking to them. The conversations are relatively one sided as you can imagine, but that doesn't stop him.

So, back to the story of tonight....we are getting out of the car and lo and behold, ORANGE CAT (URNGE CAT as Logan calls him) was in the basement. That set Logan off. He began chasing him around the basement trying to coax him out from under whatever he managed to find to hide under by saying, "URNGE CAT, come out right now. Logan wants to play wif you." "URNGE CAT, it is me, Logan." "URNGE CAT, I want you come up to my room." Finally, I managed to get Logan up the stairs WITHOUT URNGE CAT. But Stevie was already upstairs. He and Leighton were visiting so sweetly...then Logan spied Stevie. He then proceeded to talk to Stevie, "Hey Stebie (how he says it), Logan wants to hold you. See, my hands right together. (he puts his hands together like he is trying to drink water out of them to hold a 10 pound cat.)" "Stebie, I want you to come to see Logan's room." "Stebie, come to Logan's room right now." Poor Leighton just wanted to put the cat outside. Not Logan. He is intense when it comes to the cat. Eventually we did manage to get the cat outside and get Logan semi-quiet....

Then, when bed time rolled around, H suggested that Leighton might want to watch Hoosiers. (H has some serious feelings about Hoosiers...like it is the best movie ever made. To which I argue, how can that be possible when it doesn't have the slightest resemblence to The Notebook or Pretty Woman....he mumbled something about the whole sports theme once when I asked, but I don't think I was fully tuned in) Once H mentioned basketball, Logan was sold too...he wanted to lay with Leighton and watch....shortly after the movie started, Logan began to call "Daddy...I don't see no baskball..Hey Daddy, day no baskball on dis movie...Daddy....Daddy....did you hear Logan....I don't see no bask ball...." This went on for quite some time, until I went in...then it changed to "Mommy, I don't see no baskball....where baskball...." Again, Leighton was ever so patient (read, ever so sick) so he just kept saying, "Logan, it is coming...please don't say it again." It was a sweet brother moment...moreso for Logan than Leighton I think.

My last piece of random insight has to do with Leslie's blog regarding change. She posed the question of do we like change? If so, how do we like it...for a better understanding, jump on over to her blog and check it out. But it did make me think about my change "style"....and I think I am actually probably not a big fan of change. It makes me nervous. I know some change is good, and I think I might be okay with that...sometimes. But I think the inherent thing that goes along with change is unknown. Most of the time, when we are dealing with change, we have no idea exactly how things will be on the other side of our current "normal"....and it scares me to death. I had mentioned to y'all earlier that I have been reading Beth Moore's book So Long Insecurity. Although it is about insecurity (obviously - duh!) it made me really think about this idea of change....first of all, the book has made me realize that I have more insecurity to deal with than I care to talk about...but some of that insecurity, I think, comes from fear...of anything...of everything....of being insecure!?! And often fears in life come from change...change in job, change in family, change in finances, change in yourself....however you define it, change is inevitable in life...does that mean insecurity has to be as well. I hope that God will meet me in the pages of Mrs. Beth's book and show me how to break free from insecurity...maybe then I will be a change embracer!