Sunday... Felt like a circle...

Odd day today, wasn't home much so I never captured my mid-day thoughts and musings, stinks when I am away from the oracle too long.... So the post tonight is being done as the family falls off to sleep and I try to unwind from a day that felt like a circle...

We started off 6:00 am.... Little Guy and I doing our guy stuff in the morning.. Breakfast, SpongeBob and 100 Questions. My response to what are we doing today drew cries and whines... All I said was we are going to 10 o'clock mass... You would have thought they cancelled Christmas... He wanted nothing to do with Church today... But... When I told him it was Palm Sunday.. he thought for a moment... Gave me the true biblical story as conveyed by a 6 years old who has spent his entire education in a catholic school... The story as he knows it.. the dessert was hot, Jesus was coming to town and all his followers decided to cool him off by waving leaves at him... I corrected him.. told them they used Palms...( I had the same education)... In his defense and that of his educational experience, he did convey in great detail the entire story of the Passion of Christ... His big thing, outside of raising from the dead was Veronica wiping his face and the image on the vail... Of course he could move the boulder he was Jesus...


We made it out the door in time to catch the start of the mass from the parking lot... hit the top steps as the procession was midway up to the alter... So I said it felt like a circle... here is why and when it started... Mass was crowded... Toots and the clan sat two pews in front of me...

Great mass... more on that at a later date.. let's just say the church has changed....

I promised to continue the Palm Fronds subject... big disappointment... no swords or whips... The kiddos made crosses... a lot of crosses.. like in does anyone need a Palm cross...

After mass and a quick bite at the diner and the circle or separation continued... Toots and little guy went to yet another B-Day party. Big Sis and I went to yet another Softball clinic... both kids had a blast... We arrived home at about the same time... Toots drop Little Guy off, so she could run some errands and the three of us packed the dog in the car and ventured off to the dog park. We slid further away in the circle... Back home, Toots is wiped heads to bed.. I take the kids out for a bite... even further....

About the diner, Toots actually quoted me today... She said in a few months we will need the big table...

Big Sis put it ideally; today we were going to do things as a family and because of all the stuff we had to do, we never really saw each other... some family day...

The circle will be closed when I stop typing and crawl in next to Toots, take her glasses off and finish watching whatever show she has left on as she dosed off... Kiss her forehead and turn off the light... until the morning..

This concept of the circle is all about how we start the day at the same point and move in different directions until we meet back up... The best part of the circle is the start and end.. the in between leaves me feeling empty... Funny, we might get on each other nerves but I miss Toots when I am away.... I miss her when she is away... (there's the Awww moment for the post.... ) Guess we are lucky that after all this time the cricles are still pretty small...

Not much else occurred today. Little Guy is being punished for a bone head move on his part... He is restricted to the driveway and lost his New DS for a week... When his punishment was dished out he acknowledge and repeated what and why this was happening to him... From the second the last breath left his lips on his rehash of the why and what... he started to negotiate... (Gotta wonder where he gets that from...) If I do this.. can I get that... At dinner, he told Big Sis.. " When I get my DS back you can play it whenever you want.. even if I am playing take it and I won't care..." than turned to me and said.. "See Dad I am going to be good when I get it back.. can I have it now... so I can start being good"... I said "no"... He told his Sis... "that she can't play it"... Gotta love the love...

So I can't end a posting without some mention of the counter... 42 days... in a few more I will go in the basement and look for the Noah thing that we must have for Dot... Cause the last 40 days will be like a flood... but until than.. I will sit here with a smirk on my face that is equivalent to the secret pats Toots makes at her stomach... Seems like yesterday when we found out... in a few months these days will be a life time behind us as we focus on the growing family...

Good night, thanks for sitting through my feeble musings.. Tomorrow we will resume the normally scheduled program of a midday and late night wrap up... keep those cards and letters coming...