The End Of A Great Mother's Day

Today was a super Mother's Day. I kind of thought it would be a little depressing because Andy is gone and whatever, but the kids and I had a great day! Church and Chinese food and FOB (nap time) and Disney's Earth and McDonald's. . .home to a quick (okay, not so quick) room clean up and then good night! We had a blast! Sang along with Jordin Sparks and Miley Cyrus on the way home. . .our terrible voices and all of us jamming along with Gabby. It was fun!

The movie was good! Dax about died when he heard "Darth Vador" narrating the movie! That was a highlight for him! The movie was well done. . .no references to the earth being "billions of years old" and just a little bit on global warming. . .not too much of the humans are runining the world guilt trip! We loved it! It was a tad long for Dax, but he laughed HARD at a few parts! I recommend it! And Hays informed me that every ticket sold plants a tree. . .he always knows the random details!

So, we are good in Colorado. I am missing my unknown son today. . .it was just weird to have a great Mother's Day and know that there is a boy in Rwanda who is my son and he isn't here and I have no idea anything about him. Just weird.

We miss Andy!

Comments

Shannon Hilliard said…

Hi Jamie Jo,

I prayed for you and Em we and your boys to come. We had the Ugandan Watoto choir last night at church, a perfect day for me to get both Asia and Africa in the same place.

Happy Mother's Day,
Shannon

I thought Brett may steal one of the Ugandan orphans last night his name was Patrick,which would be great....other than all the jail time.

May 11, 2009 at 2:22 AM

Kelly said…

I wanted to see Earth with Brady over the weekend, but he didn't want to go... even after I told him Darth was speaking through the entire movie. He said it looked boring and didn't want to see an Animal Planet movie... :(

May 11, 2009 at 11:16 AM

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