Women among all of the men

Our family is growing and becoming more interesting! By that, I mean, more women are joining me in my minority role as a woman among men! My son Don, and his long time girl friend,Elise, are getting married Sept. 27, 2008. She graduates in Jan., and her mom wants a full year to plan. I LOVE Elise! She joins Cameron, Chris' wife, who I also LOVE! Another of my sons has a new girlfriend, who I like a lot. She is an art student, so we have that in common. It's too soon to say what will happen there, but she seems to be really bright and sweet!

I watched 100 Osmonds on Friday's Oprah show, and I couldn't help notice that most of the younger generation of Osmonds are male! If the Harringtons follow suit, the only time I will get female family members will be when my sons marry! That's okay....there are perks to being surrounded by males! There is always someone who can open up the pickle jars, which have ever increasingly impermeable lids, among other things! I'll trade not getting possession of the remote for someone always remembering to check my oil for me any day! I appreciate my daughter in law and future daughter in law very much. They have helped my sons find the best in themselves. Hopefully my boys have done the same for them. I know that our family is blessed by the women who love our sons and who our sons love. We love them, too.

WHAT A WEEKEND

Okay, so I was waiting until I had more pictures of Little Man to post, but since I've been too busy to actually take pictures lately, I'll go ahead and write something here, because some of my loved ones are getting concerned that they haven't heard from us. Well, I'm sorry, but I am TIRED and OLD! I turned 53 yesterday, and I'm feelin' it! It's not Conner's fault....although he keeps me hoppin'! It's Don's fault--and not in a good way--he gave me a cold! And my cold turned into some weird thing with my voice and lungs that makes me cough all of the time. My hands look like I'm 93 instead of 53, because I washed the livin' daylights out of them so I wouldn't get Little Man sick last week! The good news is that I had a fantastic---oops, THAT expression says something about my age--I had an AWESOME weekend! Our church held what could be called a youth ralley--but that wouldn't really say what happened this weekend. I guess you could say that God really rocked our church--which sounds weird coming from a 53 year old's keyboard--but I don't know how else to say it! There were 500+ voices raising the Cotsco style roof of our auditorium in praises to Our King! It was what this "old soul" needed on her birthday weekend! My body might be old and sick and my hands might look pretty dried up, but my Spirit is alive and jumping around like all of those kids did during the praise and worship time Sat. night. And Don and I were really happy to see people that we haven't seen for like 17 years--who used to go to University Park with us. At events like that, when we're having all of these little mini reunions, I think about how---AWESOME!--Heaven is going to be! And how can I do anything else but sing in my heart--until my voice comes back--about that!

Now, about my birthday....my best friend, Lisa, left me a gift bag on Friday night on my doorstep....she thought my birthday was Saturday, but that was great, because I loved finding a present the day before my birthday! Except, my son,Nathan--who is my youngest son, who also feels somewhat priviledged--drank my sugar free Red Bull which was part of my gift bag from Lisa, who makes GREAT gift bags, by the way! Me writing about this on my blog is Nathan's punishment for stealing from my gift bag!
The bag clearly said, "Happy Birthday" with a girly picture on the front, and there was clearly a card marked "Jerri" on the inside, as well as a really girly journal and some other stuff that would make it MY GIFT BAG. Nathan's first response was,
"I thought it was my gift bag!" Yeah, right! HIS birthday was September 13th, and last time I looked, he isn't someone who would be impressed with a girly looking journal, lots of pens, some fruity sugarfree gum,and a chick flick DVD--but evidently he WAS impressed with the Sugar Free Red Bull! Okay, enough punishing Nathan, as though he would ever read my blog anyway--you all could harrass him everytime you see him,if you want to! :) Not really--he's just adjusting to not being my "baby" anymore now that Conner's here. He's never experienced sibling rivalry before! OK--now I'd better be good!

Don and I played our Beethoven trio "audition" for the talent show yesterday. Boy, could we tell that we haven't practiced much since we became grandparents. Luckily, we were playing with a CD. The chorus songs are--AWESOME! Finally, Don and I went to Silver Diner, where I got a free entree, and then we went to see Bee Movie. It was pretty creative! I sometimes like Jerry Seinfeld--this was one of those times. I think the influence of his family has improved his humor quite a bit! Thanks to all of you who remembered my bd, and also to those of you who didn't! For you, I'll be forever 39! :) And to my sis-cuz, Reida Sue, you are--AWESOME! Those Anne Geddes outfits for Little Man made my week! Him in his bee and bear costumes are my next pics to post! Love you! You're the best Grand Aunt Sister Cousin ever!