Send Off #2

Like I said today is such a hard day for us. I've been a real debbie downer, I always seem to have a ZILLION things to do on the day Ryan leaves, and the kids seem to be on their best behavior.... NOT. Luckily, we have the amazing Klove. They have been having this thing going on to donate. Today Brookelyn and I made a phone call to commit to a monthly donation. It felt nice to know that as a family we are now a part of touching lives through this amazing thing called the radio.

After we picked Ty up from school we decided to go pick out HALLOWEEN COSTUMES!!! With a little bit of drama because one child is piece of cake piece of pie on decision making while the other is well... not. At first I got frustrated, wanting Ryan to be present to take over with this (he deals much better with this behavior than I) but I realized that as a mommy I am called to be a nurturer. SO that being said I took 10 deeps breaths, got down on their level, and talked it out. After explaining how fun and exciting it is that you get to be a totally different person/thing on this one special night (Oct 31) is so COOL we made a choice on a costume in 2 minutes! After grabbing some much needed accessories for Iron Man and Cinderella we checked out, but not before grabbing a couple of reese's pieces for a snack before our snack! After leaving the Halloween shop we headed to mommy's favorite place- Natural Grocers. Got our weekly grocery shopping done.Then off to HEB for some other house hold goods. We chose to eat out tonight and Tyler chose the Mongolian Grill. It was delicious! With full bellies the kids become NUTS! I kid you not its like I fed them sugar. They get SUPER happy and just laugh laugh laugh laugh and LAUGH! haha The whole car ride home they laughed. Honestly I was  a tad bit annoyed haha but that sweet Klove music was on and they were laughing because they were singing one of the songs silly so I clearly had no business being annoyed! Once we were home it was time to brush teeth and hit the hay! Neither one of them fought it tonight because they were both exhausted. My sweet boy misses his daddy tonight. As I've said before my little man is a bed time talker. Tonight the topic was Daddy. We talked about how we both missed him but that there is this thing called peace which means that we're okay. God wants us to have peace in our hearts not sadness and we can get that peace by praying. We talked about how we could pray for anything we wanted. We talked about praying for daddy to be safe. We talked about praying for the Lord to bless Advocare to bring our daddy home. We talked about praying that we continue to follow Christ in all things. It went pretty deep with the basic understanding that Christ is our answer for everything. Once he was satisfied with our talk Ty told me he loved me, asked for one more hug, and I started to close the door. He yelled, "Mommy!", so I stuck my head back in, "I'll pray for you too, mommy." I am by far the luckiest mom in the world. What a blessing.