The Big Day!

Party time! Aidan got to celebrate with Mommy, Daddy, Josiah, Olivia, Liam and our new friends, Kim and Dave. We had beef/zucchini lasagna for dinner with salad and french bread. His daddy fed all of that to him and he loved it, especially the zucchini. Then it came time for cake. Kim had brought small cupcakes so we gave him some instead of letting him dig into the cake that we all wanted to eat. lol It took him a little while but he finally started cramming it in. He also loved playing with the balloon. I was starting to think I wasted money on the Leap Frog Activity Table I had gotten him after I saw how much fun he was having with the balloon from the Dollar Tree. lol His daddy had gotten him a portable high chair, which was a godsend. No more sitting him on my lap and wearing most of his food. lol

It was a nice day. Clinton worked hard at getting up here to celebrate with us and we really appreciated it. I'm not going to lie....we feel complete when he's with us. We had a great weekend as a family, ending it with a family movie date before he had to head back to GA. When he first got here (at 2:30 am Sat. morning), Aidan had waken up. He was talking to him and holding him and asked him if he remembered him. In response, Aidan snuggled into him real close. Put a tear in my eye. It was so sweet. The kids were ecstatic about him being here. I didn't tell them he was coming up because I was worried something would fall through. When I told them that he was here, Liam said, "I remember what Daddy's head looks like. It's bald with little pieces of hair sticking out". LOL They were all beaming the whole time he was here. Aidan was great and kept trying to get his attention. It was like no time had elapsed and Aidan knew him just fine. We were laying in bed with Aidan between us, Clinton's back to him, and when I was nursing Aidan, he kept patting his Daddy on the back. It was so cute. :-)

It was a good weekend for us, too. No relationship talk. No finances talk. Just "BEING". Saturday night was nice after he put the kids to bed. We sat on the sofa with our"matching laptops", watching HGTV or the Food Network and just chilling. We took the whole family to the movies on Sunday, along with Josiah's girlfriend, and he paid for everyone without being asked. We saw "Forbidden Kingdom" with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. It was a good movie. One part that struck me was when the boy was saying how he knew all these kung fu moves from playing video games (but in actuality, he didn't know how to execute any of them). Jackie Chan (who was trying to teach him kung fu) said that he couldn't learn REAL kung fu because he already knew so much about it. He proceeded to pour tea in the boy's cup and kept pouring until it was overflowing. He said that as long as your cup is full, you can't fit anything else in it. "You need to empty your cup". So, he needed to empty his head of what he THOUGHT he knew so that he could learn the real deal from a master teacher. Got me thinking about how I think I know marriage and how I think I know Clinton and how especially I think I know MYSELF but in actuality, I NEED TO EMPTY MY CUP and let the Master Teacher teach me some better, more effective ways. My past ways have not worked. I need to let God teach me what really works.