My Crazy Weekend...

OK, I know you can relate...Ever feel like you just live your life in the car? Well, this was one of those weekends...

Driving to softball, working the concession stand, unloading the car (which caused a crisis this morning when my daughter couldn't find her backpack since "I had put it somewhere" which in fact I did, as I was getting the house ready for a suprise party for my husband) and picking up and unloading food for aforementioned party.

Now this is pretty funny; my husband can be generally oblivious; usually this trait is one of my less favorites, but every once in a while it comes in handy, like Saturday, when my sister in law and I brought all the food for the party into the kitchen while he was sitting within six feet of us and didn't notice a thing. I jammed it into the already full refrigerator, sacrificing the homemade hummingbird nectar.

I managed to have him leave the house before the guests arrived by getting him to drop the girls off at their activities and pick up an uneeded bag of ice. He relaized something was up when he came back and there were several cars pulled up in front of the house, but at least that gave him advance warning, as he is not the fondest of surprises.

I steeled my feelings so when he remarked that we didn't need an occasion to invite people overmy feelings didn't get too hurt.

But in fact, the sorry truth is, we do need an occasion to merit inviting our friends over, because otherwise it seems we just get too busy. And just as I was having my own party within a party in the form of self pity, a beautiful rainbow spread across the sky and captured my attention. I gave up my pity party, emphasized to my husband that we have gotten way too busy, and that this was meant to be a celebration with his friends and family who care about him. Kind of like what rainbows are: a reminder from God that he loves us and will never again bring floodwaters over the earth to destroy life. "Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 'I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendatns after you andwith every living creature that was with you-the birds, thelivestock and all the wildanimals, all those that came out of the ark with you-every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant wit you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.'"