Friends and Funny Pictures

This is my friend Tory. She's Harper's buddy. She also took most of the next few pictures.

Tory does not have 3 legs. However, she is easily suckered into reading Harper books.

Harper has half and half hair. The front half is pin straight like mine and the back half is curly like Rob's. Genetics is a funny thing. You can really see the different types of hair in her pig tails. The hair on top is straight, while the hair on the bottom is in a ringlet.

This is my friend Katie. She's Harper's buddy too.

She has a dog named Scout. Harper likes to tell Scout what to do.

It's tough love.

Katie accidentally took this picture. She hit the button right as Harper started coughing. Actually, coughing isn't the correct term for it. Sometimes, she swallows wrong or something and makes this horrible noise like she's going to projectile hurl all over everything. It's startling the first time you hear it. After that, it's just plain funny. (Note, she was not choking or in any danger. That would not be funny.)

This kid is a nut.

And I totally love every bit of her.

On Forgiveness

On Monday, my small group talked about forgiveness. It was a great discussion. Over the next few weeks we are suppose to be working on making a list of people in our lives that we need to forgive.

This is easier said than done for me. The truth is that I can't really think of any people that I need to forgive. I don't like conflict, so when it comes up, I like to get things settled quickly and move on. I think this is good because I don't hold grudges and I don't carry around a lot of unresolved stuff.

But, I feel like I may be missing something subtle. I don't know. Maybe I should just be grateful that I don't have unforgiveness issues and move on. Here are some of the questions in my head right now. If you have any opinions, I'd be glad to hear them.

• Do you have to feel completely neutral about someone or a situation to mean that you have forgiven them (ie. if you still have hurt feelings over a situation, but have chosen to forgive the person who hurt you, have you really forgiven them?)
• If you just plain don't like someone, does that mean that you are choosing not to forgive them for something even if you can't put your finger on what that may be?

Am I over thinking this?

Wavy

Did you know that you have beautiful things like this floating around in your body? We are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Easter Recap

What an awesome Easter weekend! We had so much fun hanging out together as a family and spending time with friends. After church yesterday, we went to our friends' house for lunch and an Easter egg hunt. It was great! Here are some pictures from the hunt.

I think this is my favorite one.

Poor kid ran out of room in her basket and was forced to make a pile on the ground.

I included this picture as a matter of record for Harper's future therapist. It's not unusual for this kid to have a crowd standing around her, taking pictures, and commenting on how cute she is. It's probably going to give her a complex. I'm ok with that.

Game Changer

Good Friday

Today was a good day.

My daughter actually said the following: My mommy loves me.

Score!

Also, I totally got my butt kicked at a circuit training class that Rob and I took at the gym. It was horrible and awesome all at the same time.

Also, I have a Savior who specializes in resurrections. You can read more about that here.

Also, I like this song.

Random Thursday

A couple things for today...

• First, American Idol so got it wrong last night. Didi should not have been the one to go. I can think of at least 2 people (not mentioning any names, Katie and Siobhan) who are not as talented as Didi. But, I guess I can't complain too much because I didn't vote. Now, I think I'll jump on the bandwagon and root for Crystal.
• Just in time for Easter, Harper has pink eye and an ear infection. Darn you baby school. Rob took her to the doctor this morning and the good news is that we caught it early enough that she can just take oral antibiotics instead of having to do eye drops. Silver lining, right?
• Speaking of Rob and Harper, they are best buddies these days. Harper wants very little to do with me when he's around. She even tells me "no come, Mommy" when they go down stairs in the morning. Oh well. It's just one of those things.
• Here are some pictures from the Easter egg hunt last Saturday.