HAPPY 3rd Of July!!! Well - tomorrow is the 4th - and the boys' daycare has an annual parade - so we got to go this year and walk them both around and take TONS of pics. Camp was so funny - he waved and cheered and said "WOAH!" a whole bunch. Andy just hung out and enjoyed watching the procession. Camp's class made t-shirts for all of them - and they even made one for Andy! Matching shirts for my boys. So sweet.
We had a bit of sadness over the weekend. One of my best friends lost her father yesterday morning. I loved him very much and considered him a surrogate father to me - it is a great sadness and a huge loss for everyone that knew Gene. I hate that while my boys met him - they never got to know him and love him like I did. I spent a good deal of the weekend with the family at the hospital. I know he's no longer suffering or in pain, and that brings some small amount of comfort - but I hate more than anything to see my friends suffer and be sad. Watching the family go through something like this makes me grateful and terrified at the same time. I can't imagine being a mother and outliving my children. I can't imagine being a wife and losing my soulmate. I can't imagine. It hurts. But mostly, I wish there was something more I could do to ease the heartache that my friends are feeling. And I can't. It's something everyone has to go through, and it makes an outsider such as myself feel utterly useless. I'll write more about it some other time.
And back to the happier notes. We're moving next weekend. I'm SO excited!!! The house is tiny - but it's got a darling little fenced in backyard, in a wonderful neighborhood - so I'm looking forward to it. I just dread the actual moving and packing and unpacking. Ugh. Oh - we also took the boys outside and let them play in the kiddie pool on Saturday - so fun. It was Andy's first time in the backyard pool. He wasn't really sure at first, but after he got comfy to the water temperature, he played and played. Camp was utterly fascinated by the hose and watered everything, including his brother. :) I had to laugh. He got me pretty wet too.
Well, I suppose that's a sorta update - Happy 4th! God Bless America - and God Bless the Landrum Family.