Par-TAY

Today is my 30th birthday and I am quite happy to reach this milestone. To celebrate, Andy threw a party for me last Saturday night. It was great to celebrate with several friends, my parents, and my in-laws. I know that I have been richly blessed over my 30 years in so many ways. I have a great husband, wonderful son, great family and friends, a cool church body, and so many material blessings I won't try to count them here. To my friends and family far away, I missed you and wished we could have all been together to celebrate! To those of you who came to my party, many of you who got sitters, thank you so much! It meant a lot that you would come out to make my day special. Below are two photos one of me and Andy looking fabulous and one of me and my parents. If you are going to turn 30, might as well celebrate in style!

In the moment (Laura's post)

I am rarely "in the moment" in fact, I am a very scattered, doing 12 things at once, non focused person. Today, Joshua and I had a busy morning. He is still cranky from his teeth (I think it is his teeth, but I could be wrong), and his schedule was topsy turvy. Also, I had to go out to the burbs to pick up a Craigslist find (Yay cheap used stuff!).
Anyway, after our crazy morning, Rox called to see if I wanted to go to the zoo. I did, but Joshua was not cooperating, so I let him sleep instead of trying to make him do what I wanted. After he woke up from his nap, we just hung out at home, playing in the living room. I didn't mind that he was making a mess, I didn't worry about how I was going to get the laundry done, or anything else. We just played together, and it was perfect.
Now I gotta go clean up the mess...at least I spent a little time today enjoying my son.