My top 5

Here are the top 5 things that are making my day lately:
1. Hip Hop Class.
I'm taking this hip hop class with a couple of girlfriends, and I LOVE IT. The teacher is so fabulous, and she's an amazing dancer. I covet her abilities. I look like an idiot, but I'm going to keep at it and let the little gangsta in me go.

2. This Guy.
Ok, technically not a guy, gut wow do I ever love it! I have all the stuff to make it and I can't wait to get started. weekend weekend weekend weekend

3. These Crazies
I am so enjoying my role in life right now. I absolutely adore my little family, and could snack down those girls one at a time.

4. Those crazies
I have the cutest preschoolers this year. Oh my, I didn't think they could have gotten better than last year, but by George they might. I love this job.

5. This to look forward to in December
can't wait can't wait can't wait!!!

The Porch

I have spent hundreds of hours over the last 7 years of my life on the porch with friends that I love as much as family. Our children have grown up, with their mothers on the porch, playing with friends they were born with, that they love like siblings. I have laughed, and cried, been counseled, and given advice, eaten, learned, and mostly I have loved my time spent on the porch. I didn't notice until recently that every time I walk by certain windows in my house, my head pops over to see if the ladies are out, if it's time to gather on the porch until the boys come home and want dinner. The lights were always on there, it was the most comfortable, welcome, happy place that I have ever known. The porch sits empty now. I have cried my eyes out, but they didn't bring back the comfy white wicker furniture that was supposed to sit on the porch forever. I still have my friends that I love like sisters, but we no longer have a porch to sit on, and it's different. I'm so sad.