A series of unrelated thoughts

Random thoughts…

• Susan is ten years old as of last week. She’s growing into a young lady, so blogging about her is tricky territory now. Excellent blog fodder, the potential for humor and witty snark abound. But she knows how to work the Google, and knows mom has this monicabrand.net thing going on, so no cute tween changing body stories about her.
• Doc - a man with a vision - is plotting and scheming. I’m just a wife who wants security with a modest shoe budget. That’s all I can say about that right now.
• My back porch project is moving sloooowly. I decided to extend the porch by adding on a stone patio. Doc wants to do it too, but more work and more time to get it done.
• Lucy is making me crazy. Apparently I need to be in the same room with her as she poops and pees, forcing me to stop what I’m doing to watch. I’ve tried ignoring her, only to be rewarded with a lake of pee on the bathroom floor. Yes, I said Lake Pee.
• My first Compassion International presentation is scheduled for July 17 at a Vacation Bible School in Princeton. Starting to feel the pressure of not screwing it up. Thankfully the kids I’m speaking to are… kids. A forgiving audience, in my experience with working with kids. Of course, I want to complicate things by making my own Poverty Wheel, making the talk all hands on and stuff, but at this late date I may have to go with simple.
• If I can’t get to Blogher, I want to go to GodBlogCon in September. Anyone else going? I’d love to meet you in person. I’m not sure how it’s mom friendly, but I can pretend I’m professional enough to hang with the movers and shakers of the godblogosphere.
• Last night I dreamt of dropping the kids into public school. Literally. I walked in a classroom, sat them at a table and walked out the door. I spent the rest of the dream arguing with myself, What the heck are you doing? Go get them! The guilt, the internal conflict, that feeling of panic - all too real.
• Book giveaway time again - but you have to come back tomorrow.

Enjoy your Monday. It’s rainy here and I must go to that shiny (un)happy place were I can do the modern day version of hunting and gathering. Fun and excitement, eh?