Friends in high places

Our friends Matt and Sarah recently welcomed their first baby into the world. We are so excited for them and know that little Candice Ann will bring such blessing into their lives. And more.(>: I have always enjoyed being a mom but sometimes I forget that I enjoy it.(: So, Sarah was a trooper all during her pregnancy. She has done something not many people in the world can boast of: delivering an 11 lb., 10 oz. baby. Whew!

For the second time in my life one of my children is in the hyper-exploring-willyoualwaysbelikethis? mode of his life. I started to feel a little panic today thinking about it until I remembered that Andrew was like that too. For about a year it felt like all I did was chase a little guy around. And apparently that is normal or genetic or something because it is happening again. I do feel calm about it most of the time, but I was tested today at a friend's house when I had my hand in the sink in the kitchen and heard a very loud and sudden grinding noise. I looked down, after withdrawing my hand, and saw James at my side smiling in a somewhat frightened manner with his little fingers on a lighted green lightswitch. Whoever decided that the switch for the garbage disposal should be only two-and-a-half feet up was not a friend of small children or the mothers of small children. I thought, what if my hand had been down the sink? Not sure why I would have put my hand down the sink at someone else's home, but it is possible, right? I guess I wouldn't be typing this right now.

I think I am becoming a blog junkie. I have never been tempted to stay on the internet for extended periods of time. I think, in fact, I make fun of people who do. But blogging seems to have opened up an opportunity to see the world from my desk chair. And not just the world, but other people like me who write about normal everyday things, or people who I want to be like, or just people I wish I knew. Sometimes it seems like it really is a net, and now I can follow a strand logically and understand each stop along the way. It isn't just an unidentified sea of information, but a way to see and be seen. I have enjoyed it and hope you enjoy reading about it.