Joel and I spent a glorious (and gone-in-the-blink-of-an-eye) long weekend in Phoenix a few days ago. My brother has lived there for twenty years or so, and I have been spending my “spring breaks” down there since I started working in 2005. This past year, I had to forgo my trip due to our little adventure in Europe. This made me quite sad, so Joel & I decided to buzz down there to spend time with the kids and watch my oldest (stud of a) nephew play football. We arrived Thursday night and the mayhem began. Throughout the duration of our not-quite 72 hours we: played a lot of cards, went for a run, went to a pep rally, watched my nephew ask his girlfriend to homecoming in front of the entire school (a plan he didn’t come up with, but went along with WHOLE HEARTEDLY), hiked camelback, was Nicole’s show-and-tell at school, had some Mexican & margaritas, went to a football game (Adam had a TD!!), watched Sam for five holes in a golf tourney, stopped at the mall, watched the Nebraska game, went to church, failed my all-time partner John by losing to Joel and Sam in washers, played more cards, and laughed and told a lot of stories.
Quite an agenda, right? This is a day of NORMALCY in their lives. My brother and sister-in-law have four children. Four very active children. I would need the fanciest scheduling device Apple has invented in order to ‘keep up with the Engelberts’. Bad joke, I know. J
It’s amazing how you get caught up in the excitement of LIFE there. Always somewhere to be and always something to do. Will we have a household of kids? Will we be strategically planning how to get this child here & that child there? Will we have four children & five vehicles in front of our house? Will we be running out to the grocery store the night before the big pep rally to buy a dozen roses so our son can have THE big invite? Will we have boys? Will we have girls? Will they share rooms and live to tell about it??
Will we have a little princess that REALLY likes to sing? J
I sure hope so!!!
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