First I’d like to say thank you to the lovely woman who linked to me over the weekend.

She can be found at: http://sarahray.wordpress.com/

It made me feel very happy to see that new link over the weekend. As much as I try to pretend that this journal is for me and it doesn’t really bother me that only a few people are reading I still honestly have the desire to connect with people.

Saturday morning Alex and Nathan went out to play paintball. Getting shot at isn’t my idea of fun, but they apparently had a blast. I am glad that they were able to spend some time together. They are both bruised, but they show their bruises with laughter. I am glad that Nathan has a father to do such things with. I would have no doubt spend the entire game hiding.

Polly and I spent Saturday cleaning up the house in preparation for her sleep over. Her friend arrived in the afternoon and I was soon used to the constant squeals this girl emitted. She also jumped up and down when she was excited, which was often. They stayed up until 2:30 am eating, watching movies and playing games. She must have had a good time; she called her mom Sunday and begged to stay another night. I wasn’t too keen on the whole sleepover on a school night thing so I was glad that her mom said no and I didn’t have to be the bad guy for once.

Yesterday I spent the day with Alex and I felt like a giggly teen. Just the simplest things are more fun when he is here. We took a shower together, something we haven’t done in ages, and it was nice.

Alex found the charger for his old digital camera, and so he let me borrow it. As I have mentioned, mine needs repair. His charger has been missing for three years and I had never used his camera before so I went out yesterday and took some shots as I walked around waiting for Polly’s school to let out. Then I came back home with Polly and asked Alex to take some photos of me. I usually shy away from cameras, but I decided to be brave. I want to get some pictures on my journal and I need to just jump in with both feet instead of being so nervous about it. Hopefully I’ll learn how to put the photos from the camera to the computer to my site and have some up by tomorrow. Or I’ll just ask Alex to do it for me. As compatible as we are in so many ways when it comes to him teaching me things he loses patience quickly and I usually end up with my feelings hurt.

Best of all, Nathan was accepted into the school we interviewed for! I am beyond excited. Last week someone brought a gun to his current school and the entire school was under lockdown (thank god he wasn’t there that day) and fortunately no one was hurt. I decided at that very moment that he wasn’t going back to that school no matter what. Now I just need to return the textbooks he has at home and the library books too and we don’t even have to think about that school again. Thanks everyone for the good thoughts. They worked!