Movin movin movin...

I have been on the move for weeks now with school activities, getting ready for Relay for Life, Grace's dance, Camden's baseball, etc... Since last Sunday (Mother's Day) we have had 3 baseball games, dance practice, Thales Academy's 1st Talent Show and the North Raleigh/Wake Forest Relay for Life weekend and Chris had an interview with a company here in Raleigh that seemed to have gone pretty well.

Camden's ball team won 2 of the 3 games they played this week and then had team pictures at 7:45 AM on Saturday. In the first game this week Camden stole 2nd and 3rd and scored a run!!

Grace had her last dance practice for this season because this week is dress rehearsal for her recital this coming Saturday.

On Thursday night we were entertained for a couple of hours by the students from Thales Academy during their first ever talent show. All the kids that participated did a FABULOUS job and I can't wait to see how they top themselves next year! Grace and 4 of her friends from Hip Hop did their recital dance and wowed the crowd. She also dressed up as a monster for a skit that her friend Savie did for the show, too cute!! There were kids that played the piano, guitar, sang, told jokes, hula hooped, played the clarinet, the violin, and 4 little kindergarten boys who breakdanced! Everyone brought a picnic dinner and had a great time!

Friday night and Saturday morning was Relay for Life for N. Raleigh/ Wake Forest at Wakefield High School. What a great night we had. The Opening Ceremonies was very nice, after the Color Guard from the Fire Dept presented the flags and Angela Hampton from WTVD channel 11 said a few words all the Survivors on hand got up and stated their name and what kind of cancer they had/have and how long they have been a survivor. My mom was one of them, she is now an 8yr survivor of colon cancer! The Survivors lead the first lap around the track to claps and whistles, so special. It was also nice to see and old friend from high school who lost her mother in March to lung cancer after having been a Survivor of breast cancer for many years. Her dad carried her mom's portrait around the track, such a special moment to witness. During the luminary ceremony they turned out all the lights in the stadium so the only thing lit is the luminaries that line the track that are purchased In Honor of and In Memory of loved ones with cancer. Kathrine, Grace and I went to look for the ones I bought for my mom and dad. We found my mom's first and then Grace found some in memory of Kay Yow (NC State Women's basketball coach who passed in Jan after fighting breast cancer for decades) The theme of this year's 25th Anniversary Relay was HOPE and on the bleachers they had luminaries that spelled out HOPE that were lit during the ceremony. We kept looking for my dad's luminary and finally found it, during his treatment his "theme" was Choose Hope and he had buttons made up that were passed out to his church members, etc... How neat it was that his luminary was on the track under the HOPE luminaries!! I know he was there looking down on us Friday night. This Monday the 18th would have been his 60th birthday, what a great way to spend the weekend leading up to his birthday, helping raise money to find a cure for the cancers that have stricken both my parents and my grandmother and the loved ones of others! The kids enjoyed the games and activities and the rest of us walked the track throughout the evening and caught up with other friends that we had not seen in a long time. Saturday at 8am Grace and I were back out there in the rain so she could participate in the Kids Walk. It was wonderful to see so many kids out there walking for a cure for cancer. Wool E Bull from the Durham Bulls was out there along with Swoop from the Carolina Railhawks and the Sonic Hotdog dude was out there as well. (I have tons of pics from the weekend that I will post soon and some from the Talent Show)

Right as we were leaving the house Fri to go to Relay we noticed some water on the floor by the refrigerator and water dripping out of the ice dispenser on the door. Our freezer and fridge had stopped working, not what we need right now!! It had apparently just happened so it was still cold enough that with us gone and the door closed things would keep until the next morning when we could deal with it. We called Sears who said that they could not have anyone out til Monday between 8am and 5pm...really!!! Could we not narrow that time frame down a little more?? So I have spent the weekend throwing food away, it makes me sick at how much food is GONE!! We loaded up the meat and headed to my sister's Sat night and cooked up chicken and hamburgers and hotdogs and pork chops and had a feast so it would not go to waste. We barely put a dent in it but at least she has a deep freeze that we could put it in after cooking it. I shudder to think what our grocery bill will be this week after the fridge is fixed. I will say that I had been meaning to clean out the fridge and freezer for awhile this just is not the way I wanted to do it much less the week that I needed to do it!!

Pray that Chris hears back about this job tomorrow, the interview went well and it sounds like a great opportunity. Although I would LOVE to move back to Florida this job would keep us here in NC, right now we will take anything!! I have been looking as well to no avail, yet, hopefully that will change soon too!!

I am ready to sit and stop movin for awhile!!