Today was just a spectacular Saturday. Actually, these last 3 have been a magnificent smorgasbord of Saturdays. And I only missed that word by one letter the first time I tried to spell it :) But truly, I have had three very different Saturdays that have all turned out to be pretty wonderful. B's house was great, camp was great, and this one was just great. Guess God wanted to correct my view of Saturdays being awful. And I'm not complaining.
I came home around 7 last night and lounged on the couch. It's my typical home-coming routine. I walk in the door, hug my parents, bat my eyes and ask my dad to carry my stuff in from the car, and then lay down on the couch and don't move for several hours. We usually watch TV and I generally fall asleep somewhere between 8:30 and 10 and awaken at some point during the evening news or the David Letterman show. Last night I made it til about 10 and woke up during the sports cast. Usually after that I go straight to bed, but I got to sleep in yesterday, so I ended up staying up til 4. I got sucked into a Criminal Minds marathon/tetris tornado. You can't quit a Criminal Minds episode halfway through, it's just too creepy, and they started them one right after the other, no commercial between. And tetris is seriously like cocaine to me. Once I start, I CANNOT stop. It's a problem. So 4 AM it was. However, my Dad put in new sinks, so I didn't wake up my parents while brushing my teeth with a super squeaky faucet. Next step is to remove the squeak from the stairs...
I woke up around 12:30, got dressed and such, and then rode with to Swartz Creek to watch my niece and nephew's basketball games. I just don't think I can even explain how wonderful it is to be an aunt. Just seeing those kids warms a spot in my heart that no one else can reach. They are one of the few reasons I am still considering reproducing, because if it feels like this to be an aunt, it must feel even better to be a mom. But anyways. Kacie won and tore it up out there. Had several points and played excellent and aware defense, and JD's team controversially lost though we're nearly certain they tied. He had several points, but he played the best defense I've ever seen him play and nothing makes this aunt more proud than some tenacious defense. That was not supposed to be a Jack Black reference. What is even better than watching them play basketball is hearing them say "Aww, do you have to leave? Why can't you spend the night?!? PLEEASEEE spend the night! I don't want you to leave!"
After the game, we went to their house and they excitedly showed me their new rooms. Kacie's rearranged her furniture and her room's pretty sweet looking, and JD got a new room that is now painted in Spartan green with a Spartan shrine in the corner, and we played one-on-one basketball on a basketball rim that was up to roughly my eyebrows. I had a bit of an advantage :) We ate lunch/dinner and played some games on the Wii. I just can't believe how grown up they are getting. But they are darling kids and I wish I could just the hug them to pieces right now. Being and aunt and getting to be with (and watch and hug and play with) your niece and nephew automatically makes a Saturday a step above the rest. Have I made it clear just how much I love those kids and how much they mean to me?
We drove straight from their house to Riverview. It was a full house tonight! I've never seen it that full. As usual, it was sound preaching, great music, and good coffee. I really do love that church. We came home and I played the piano for awhile for my parents. Then my parents and I discussed subjects with religious and political undertones for quite some time. To some, this may sound like an awful idea, but it really is one of my favorite things to do when I'm home. I trust and respect my parents, and though we sometimes go head-to-head on things, they really just help me to challenge my perspective. My mother is incredibly discerning, and my dad is very gentle and wise, and if I want anyone to challenge my perspective, it'll be them. I respect my parents so much, and I am SOOO thankful to God that I have a home that I love being at and parents that I love talking to and a relationship with them that includes mutual respect and love. I'm proud of my parents and I know they're proud of me, and there is little that is worth more than that in this world. Sometimes I just wonder why on earth God has blessed me so deeply and so widely.
Tomorrow will consist of correcting A LOT of papers and Superbowl partying it up! Woohoo! Go Packers! But this will be after I go to bed at 2:30 tonight because I WILL NOT turn on the TV, and I WILL NOT start a game of Tetris! Good for me. Haha.
I almost just blew my nose into a drier sheet...
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