Conversations in transit

Driving home tonight...

Greyson: "Mom."
Me: "Yes?"
Greyson: "God is wild for us."
Me: "He is!" "Did you hear that at Sunday school?"
Greyson: "Nope. It's on grandma Carol's computer. In a song."
Me: "Do you know what it means, 'God is wild for us.?"
Greyson: No.
Me: "It means He loves us very very very much!"
Greyson: "Why?"
Me: "Because He created us."
Greyson: "Created us?"
Me: "Because God made us."
Greyson: "Oh." "And he made the sun, and the stars and the earth..."
Me: "Yup." :)

Greyson: "If we had buttons that turned into rockets we could blast off into space and look at Earth."
Me: "Yes we could!"

I'm going home...

Three days until Greyson and I move back to Michigan and I'm not ready. I don't want to leave behind Clayton, or my friends, or this weather. It is beautiful outside; sunny and 76 degrees. I don't want to leave karate, or MOPS, or my church. It seems harder to leave North Carolina for Michigan than it was leaving Michigan for North Carolina. It could be the thought of going back to a frigid state (both in temperature and economically) and the uncertainty of the next step in your life journey. I've scoped out the "help wanted" ads online; H&R Block and Meijer pharmacy are current contenders, I've thought about substitute teaching (when in fact I'd rather go back to school and work on a Master's degree or take some classes that would improve my chances of getting a teaching job), and I've thought about going into business myself, as a MyClyns wellness coach (but Clayton doesn't think it will be very lucrative, though I'm not doing it for the money but because I think it is a great product, still at the ground floor in home-based sales, and I'd be the only one in Michigan). This all sounds very bleak; like there's nothing in Michigan, but that couldn't be farther from the truth.
I am so excited to be close to family again! I can't wait to meet Miss Kenley Jo and have Greyson and Abbi play together (the boys too, but I'm not sure how much they want to play with the "little ones.") I'm excited to reconnect with all of my Michigan friends too! I'm excited for Greyson and Clayton to start school; Clayton registered for winter classes at MCC this afternoon. I'm still not sure if they will take Greyson mid-year, but we'll see soon enough. I think the best part of being back in Michigan is the fact that I can start making wedding decisions! It's hard planning a wedding when your out-of-state; I don't know how Kim and Jeff did it. All in all I can't wait to be back in Michigan.
Change is hard, but change is good.

Halloween 2011

I guess you'll just have to turn your head to the side because for some reason blogger decided to take pictures that were oriented correctly in my pictures and disorient them. My apologies.

Our Halloween festivities for this year included Trunk or Treat (our very first ever and it was great fun), A Halloween Dress-up Dinner Party and Trick or Treating. It was all a lot of fun. The only downfall of the whole weekend was that Clayton couldn't be with us; next year!

Boys are stinky!

I just went to wake Greyson from his nap, and boy was he sweaty! I made a comment to that affect and Greyson replied, " I told you, that's cuz boys are stinky and sweating. Just like daddy."
He's makes the same point when I react with a "Peeyou" (I can not for the life of me figure out how to spell this word, if you can leave it as a comment and I'll edit this post) to his stinky #2s. "Mom, I tell you plenty of times, boys are stinky!" :)