door to door salespeople

I was awoken this afternoon from our nap (Gavin and I) to the door bell ringing. I thought perhaps Shannon had ordered something online and I needed to sign for it, so I went to the door. It was two young girls, probably late teens. They were selling magazines to try to raise money for a trip. I looked through the list and decided on Bon Appetite. Much to my dismay this is going to cost me $57.00 for 2 years! Wow, that seems like a lot. But, it is for a good cause, right?

A couple things that bothered me about this transaction. 1. They wanted to come in my house and sit down to fill out the slip. 2. They asked to use the phone to call the order in (it seems like they should have a cell phone for that, or maybe do it when they get back home). I have visions of getting some $2000.00 phone bill from their using my phone. I am saddened by my mistrust of these two young girls, but in today's day and age how can I not be leery? I feel that by trying to do a good deed I will be robbed or have my identity stolen. How can I change this way of thinking.

I heard a story on NPR today. There was a nun in the Amazon Rain Forest who was murdered. She was walking through the forest on the way to a meeting with some landowners when someone stopped her. They pulled a gun. She said please don't shoot, pulled out her Bible and read a passage, put her Bible back and was shot and killed. I like to think she knew she was going to die and in the moment read the passage to try to save her killers soul. I want the faith she had to be comfortable with her mortality and the conviction she had to preach to the murderers. I want her way of thinking. Even though she was going to be killed she did not let it take away from her doing her job.


Gavin took his first step tonight. One, Glorious, Unassisted step! He also said Ma Ma for the first time! What a Glorious day at the Hendrick house today!

Happy Valentine's Day-- I don't like you!

Sophia informed me that she did not like me! We were coming home from school and I would not give her the Valentine candy from her classmates to eat. She threw a fit and said she did not like me. Rather than upset me like I thought it would I calmy told her that was ok, it will make it that much easier to put you down for your nap! She did not like that one bit.

Lent

I am struggling with what to give up for Lent. There are so many things I want to do (not give up, but do, like blogging more, spending more time cleaning, reading, with the kids etc) that it makes it difficult to decide what I want to give up. Once I decide what to give up, it should leave me some free time to do some of the things I want to do, and need to do. When I think about all the things to cut back on time wise, sadly the only doable option is to cut back on my online time. So, I will limiting myself to 1 hour during the week and 2 hours on Saturday and Sunday. That is an insane amount of time anyway. I wish I had the will power to give it up altogher for lent, but I don't think I could and if I cheated I would have no problem cheating for several hours a day.



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I registered both the kids for preschool next fall. They will both be doing a 3 day, Monday, Wednesday, Friday program. Sophia is currently enrolled at this school and it is FANTASTIC. I can't wait to get Gavin involved. I was lucky to get them both in my first choice. It is crazy how people camp out to get their kids in the right school. Shannon did it for Sophia to get in last year, I was thinking it would make Gavin a shoe-in. Little did I know it would not. I was very lucky we did not have to put him on a waiting list. With that out of the way I can focus on enjoying them this summer, and planning all kinds of wonderful adventures.


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Both of the kids are doing well. Sophia is finally counting! For her mid-year testing she passed everything except the counting. She knows shopping, but not counting. Talk about guilt! I have been working with her, while we shop about how many bars of soap are there etc, and it seems to be working! YAY! Dandy!

Gavin is soooooo close to walking. I can't wait to see him take off. He wants it so bad, but is still holding on to a little bit of fear. He is so cute it makes me ache sometimes. He is growing so quickly. He is still not sleeping through the night, but no longer needs fed, just a pacifier and he is back out. I look forward to getting rid of the paci's soon. If I were a stronger person they would go with Lent as well.

Oh well, maybe next month!

Dandy