Nice One.

Talmage has a new catch phrase. "Nice one." I hope I never forget how he says it.  He loves to use it when Andy makes one of his really bad jokes or when someone says something that he thinks is clever.  It's awesome because he feels like a grown-up when he gets a joke and nobody else does.  I love it.

One more thing I hope I don't forget: I love how Beti smacks her lips when she is sleeping.  So cute.

"Something kind of good happened today..."

Tal: Something kind of good happened today. We were doing a fitness test in PE to see how many pull-ups we could do.  The record was four pull-ups and I did six!  Then everyone was giving me high-fives 'cause they wanted to be my friend!!


Talmage now knows one of life's little secrets.  People want to be your friend if you're freakishly strong.

I feel like I should give a shout-out to Tal's Aunt Rachel.  Law family legend is that in 4th grade Rachel out-pull-up'ed the entire class - including the boys.  Must run in the family.

Breaking up is hard to do.

Moving is hard.  Just to be clear, I have no doubts that we are in the right place.

It's just that we have grown and growing is hard.

And more than that, my beloved Texas friends are moving on...without me.  And it breaks my heart a little.

Seeing pictures and hearing stories of Halloween, camping, races, and girl time that I should be participating in with my peeps leaves me with a knot in my stomach and a lump in my throat.

I'm happy for my friends - I just miss, miss, miss them.  I know it takes time - I'll make new friends - life will go on....but it hasn't yet.

So, for today I am sad.  'Cause breaking up is hard to do.