So what do you do when you can't sleep....?

I envision the following scenario....the television reporter, amidst all the cheering and applause says, "So, Kathi, you have succeeded in creating a happy, peaceful, restorative Sabbath day, all your family is gently at rest, and your week ahead is planned and coordinated; what will you do next?", and my answer "Go to Disneyland!", then his answer "Yeah, right! You got yourself mixed up with the Taylor's! Try going to sleep instead!" So when I can finally get my mind to settle down for the night I will imagine what a great time our friends are having and that will give me a wonderful start to some happy dreams!

We have had a nice weekend, starting with attending the Renaissance Fair on Saturday with the Hope Kids foundation. This is a group that Khloe, and us as her family, became involved with during the last week of her hospital stay. It is an organization specifically for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families and provides ongoing events and activities as well as a special support community. The fair was outside and it was a gorgeous day! We watched full-contact jousting (even Jamin winced at some of the hits), listened to some great bagpipe/flute/strings music, and saw a myriad of costumes including Snow White, a Spartan and even a Trekkie! We got an added bonus for the day by being able to visit with our friends the Beckstrom's as they were arriving and we were headed home....great timing! Among other things, Kaitlin and Kindahl left with henna tattoos, Khloe with a "Harry Potter" type magic wand and Kimber with a flute and pictures of herself riding a camel! Larry took us all out for an early dinner and then Kaitlin and I got to go watch Jamin perform in the high school's dance classes recital, of which he did a fabulous job! This morning I woke up to another beautiful day and decided to take Kimber and Khloe on a walk. Kimber pushed her baby (current one is a stuffed polar bear!) in the stroller and I pushed Khloe in the wheelchair. What started out as a nice little stroll turned into a 4 mile walk as we were enjoying ourselves so much! Then we got to go to church and fill our spiritual reservoirs some more and then had a fun dinner with wonderful friends over to share it with us. All in all a happy, peaceful, restorative (now you know where that reporter I mentioned before got his line!) weekend.

Coming up we have a busy week with Kimber's kindergarten testing and year-end program, a mock disaster drill and recall for CERT, and Khloe's and my all day visit to Primary's on Thursday. The weekend is busy, too, with Jamin and I down at Snow College for his football "audition" on Saturday (wish him luck!), and our family speaking in church on Sunday (for all of you who will be gone for Memorial Day we will let you know if you missed anything!).

I will end tonight with a thought to ponder...for those of you with young children, looking forward to the day when one of them is finally old enough to babysit the younger ones and envying those of us already there, Larry and I discovered something of importance Friday night that we want to share with you...after all that time of waiting for them to get older and be able to babysit, once they can do that for you, take advantage and enjoy it as much as possible because there will come a day when, because they are now even older, they will have jobs and social lives that take them away and therefor are unable to babysit for you anymore!!!! So here's to our children becoming the responsible, contributing members of society we are raising them to be, and to us for not only letting them go, but encouraging them to, even when it means we don't get to see that movie we talked about all week!! :-)