What's Up?

Can anyone comprehend 10 baseball games, 4 b-ball practices, 2 track workouts (Tsion), 2 soccer practices (many missed!) and 1 soccer game in TEN days? That is our family. Here are some highlights......

Josh pitching, him and Sami made some great plays together this week! (Pics courtesy of Michele, thanks!) :)

Zach sliding into 2nd base, a very controversial call, but he was out! Notice the kids sitting on him, and pushing him off the base....not like I am biased. :) His team did win in the last inning by one right after this!

Sami on the soccer field, came SOO close to a couple goals! Zach and Sami are playing on the same select team....

Happy Earth Day!

Today, Tsion had an Earth assembly at school today. She also had her first "official" playdate with her friend Elizabeth. What is so fun about this friend, is that her mom and I figured out we were in Spanish class together just before we started the adoption process. Later a memory came to mind about one of those classes. Her daughter (Elizabeth, then 4ish) came and sat on my lap, and as I was talking to her, someone made an offhand comment that I needed to adopt a girl. :) Now the two of them are best friends! How fun is that.

No, we do not have horses! Our neighbors do.

A Franciscan Prayer

I stumbled across this awhile back, and am finally posting this. I love it!

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that you may reach out your hands to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.

Our Back Deck Tonight......

Yes, it is 8PM on April 18, in the great Pacific Northwest.

My Daddy

Tsion keeps getting the words prince and principal confused. Awhile back, she called her principal her prince. ;) So the other day, she tells me "every princess has a principal." I started laughing, and said, "well, who is your principal?" (I had thought she woulds say her actual principal at school)She looked over at poor ACL disabled Lance on the couch and said "Daddy".

Is there a Doctor in the house??

If you have been to a Young Life camp, or any camp for that matter, you know that there is always a camp Doctor. Well, there is not a camp Doc in Africa! As soon as the kids found out who had the medicine for headaches, they would come knocking on my door. Next it was small scrapes, for some neosporin and band-aids.....scrapes that I wouldn't even give my kids band-aids for at home. ;) When it came time to wrap ankles....I deferred my job to someone else!!

I was reminded of this yesterday, when Sami came to me about his tooth hurting. He has had some gum tooth sensitivity on his front teeth, and I said we would tell the dentist next week. He gets frustrated with me, when I say "Honey, I am sorry. There is nothing I can do." Last night he replies "There is no medicine for that??" Now I am realizing, that he thinks that there must be something you can take, for any ailment you may have!

Pretty in Pink

Tsion and I have a deal, when we go to visit Nana, she gets to have her toes painted (by someone other than me!) My Mom took her, and she picked the most flourescent pink possible...Laser Pink, yes, she wrote it down....so I could buy it. Anyway, do I want to admit when we struck this deal?? It was last year, a couple months after they had gotten home. I had a rare pedicure with a couple girlfriends, and came home in flip-flops. When she saw my toes, she fell to the ground crying.....because I went without her. I am not kidding! I am not to blame for this obsession, I have learned that it is inborn. Hence, the deal....polish in Palm Springs.