What was I thinking???

Today is the girls' first joint birthday party with friends at our local indoor inflatable playground.

24 kids total, including mine.

Picking up an extra child from school for lunch beforehand, to help her parents with transportation.

Need to drive 30 minutes across town to get the cake I had to have ...

Then back to school to pick up my Kindergartener and the extra girl.

Then back home to serve lunch.

Then the 15 minute drive back to the party place.

I am exhausted just thinking about it!

But ..... I better get on the move ....

I can't wait until 4 p.m. today when this is over and I can look back and recall how much fun it was :()

Learning Through Our Lives ...

I can't help it. I believe in kindness. I hate to see people get hurt when kindness could have made all the difference in a situation. I would like to think we would all desire to own our part in something ugly that happened and hurt others ... and make peace. And live in a big happy circle of love. Or move on kindly.

But that just isn't always the case in life. Some people just don't care to be kind and won't be.

And, I am sorry; but, I can't stand beside them.

"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."
Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to learn"

"Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims