my Boys

Today was piano..I have three students on Wednesdays, they are all boys. I have started calling them "my boys". these boys are the cool cats on the elementary campus, every one knows them and every one likes them...but I have enjoyed getting to know them to find out that:

-one is a perfectionist and loves my kids like his own siblings, he also has a gift with music I think between the obsession to get everything 100 right and his natural music tendencies he could be a great piano player...hes learning the music maybe cool....just like all the sports he plays perfectly.My favorite line he ever said?? I was telling the boys that girls like a guy who can play the piano and that this could help them out in the future (LOL) he thinks on this for a while and says " I thought it was foot ball that got the girls!?"

-one is a talker, he likes to tell me what he got going on, exaggerate the truth ( just a tiny bit) and he shakes the whole time he plays..not because he doesn't get it, but because hes not sure if he really has it right. he always wants to go first, and show me things on you tube...=)

- one is so so shy, which you would never guess at first, but hes quite and sweet, he has an amazing ear, because hes so shy I sometimes forget about his amazing ear and play a small part of his assignment to help him feel more comfortable, but then when he can play it perfectly after, I realize my mistake...when will I learn not to play for those whole have a great ear?? hes the kind of boy that i think...."can you get baptized so that you can marry my daughter when you get older.???. =)"

they come into the house like a whirlwind, laugh at joey for two hours, shove at least one of the three out the back door to contend with angie, eat, laugh and do home work while they are here....and while the house is trashed when they leave, my week is just not the same with out "my boys" coming to visit...

so many things I wasn't aware of.

Last night I was up with a friend until 12;30 in the morning..it was late and I was tired...BUT I went to bed feeling grateful for so many things I didn't realize were blessings. My friend and I have shared a lot of similar hardships..the difference was the out come. while hers have been long and drawn out and she has been undermind and under supported, mine have changed my relationship with heavenly father, and my husband...Mike has stood by me and supported me in way I didn't even realize were amazing..but seeing some one else go through the same junk with out a amazing husband, wow my life could be so much harder right now. Where my chanellenges have grown me hers have hardened her, not because shes not a amazing person, but because when you are drowning and no one is hearing you, then you start fighting any way you can and it can get SO SO hard. anyway, I am grateful becuase she opened my eyes ( with out knowing it) to many times in my life where the Lord has taken over and changed everything, and I have been the direct benefit of it all..

slow days

Today I went to sacramento and back, talked on the phone a long time, cleaned half my house had friends over for dinner...but it was a relatively slow day, I am grateful for a day which is busy but normal busy not so Jam packed that my head is spinning and I have to run and yell everything I do...It was nice.

understanding

this sounds goofy, but I had a crazy week this last week which meant mike was with the kids A LOT! By the end of the week end he was exhausted and worn out and a bit frustrated, he said things like " you need to be home more then one morning a week, and what do we do about....?? and waht about??? How can we fix???" things like this. I think I could have thrown up my hands and yelled " WHAT DO YOU THINK I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS???" but The Lord helped me out on this one and I realized I had been given a gift...that of Mike understanding. sometimes when we tell people things they just can't understand...unless the experience it.....so Mike got to understand and now together we can move forward...