We went to the Orange County Fair this weekend. I was very impressed. I remember going to the Strawberry Festival as a kid growing up in Garden Grove. This year's theme was "Cowabunga", hence the surfing cow sand sculpture. The Peking Acrobat troupe photos are fodder for a number of posts on balance, of which I am in sore need. One thing I did note. The older I get, the less I know how to have fun. My expectation that I should be able to meet every family members desire for a good time robs me. I fully get that this is my problem and also that I have indulged my children to the point that they believe everything is always about them. My parenting leaves much to desire. When they aren't satisfied with the outcome of what we do or where we go, I try to nail them with the "ungrateful" spiel.
Yesterday, Spencer and I were doing our visiting teaching. I know it is a little weird but I take him as my companion because both sisters I visit have little boys that love Spencer. At the second visit, the kids decided to whack each other with toys swords. One of the kids leveled a pretty good swing at Spencer's face right on his glasses and he ended up with a nasty bruise. On the way home in the car, he was telling me that he was trying to protect the youngest child, a little girl named Natalie, but that her brothers weren't showing their younger sister any mercy so he stepped in front of the sword. Spence and I have talked many times about the challenges (and benefits) of being the youngest. He told me the youngests' need to stick together. I told him that one of the blessings of being the youngest is that you learn compassion for others. You know what it feels like to be picked on and you don't want others to experience that hurt. He shook his head and said, "yeah, if you don't get killed before you grow up." He is a tender hearted soul and I will always be grateful for him in my life.
Enough for now...love to all.
1 comment:
Stacey,
About the video and adding it to your blog. You first need to go to your dashboard. Once your there scroll down to the bottom a little and there is a link to drafters blog. click that and it will appear as if nothing happened and that you went back to the regular dashboard, but if you look up at the url it will say drafter.blogger.com or something like that. Then just click new post and it bring the screen where you can type, but if you look next to the place where you can add pictures there is a film looking buttom. Hopefully that helps. I think that you have an awesome blog. The only reason I suggested the video is because we can't get enough of your family. You guys are so lively and fun. Picture can only capture so much of you guys. I hope i did hurt your feeling when I suggested it.
Love,
Justin
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