HAPPY DAY - Shopping & Basketball

Some days are so good, you wish you could bottle whatever it was that makes it so good and use a dash whenever you need to in the future. I spent the day with my two sons and my husband. I have a daughter who attends university so she's living away from home and believe me....she's missed terribly. It's her second year and although we're not as emotional (like bawling every single day for her first semester), it's still difficult. But anyway, after shopping today with the boys (I mean my husband and two teenage sons) we went to lunch. My 14 year old is Mr. Comedian himself. Whenever we are down or someone doesn't feel very cheerful, he knows exactly what to say, what to do or sometimes just a certain way to look to make you laugh and forget your troubles. Today at lunch we almost couldn't finish it because he had us laughing so hard. He's amazing. When we got home, we put the groceries away and I took some pictures of the boys dunking the basketball and show each other up! It was so fun! Then the four of us played horse! It was hilarious! Then we played two on two and I was paired up with my oldest son who's 17. We laughed so hard. We almost peed our pants (or rather I did) and it was so good to enjoy the sunshine and each other's company. At first it was really cold, but soon it was really quite warm. It was great fun! My daughter just called me and I always love to hear her voice. We miss her terribly when we are playing outside like that because it's her nature to suggest we do something like that. She would have loved to join us I'm sure! She's doing better (last week with exams and all) and is in the middle of volunteering for a conference at her school where about 100 people from different universities and colleges come for a four day conference. She's so busy all the time....I told her no more conferences, she needs a freakin' break! Since starting the the university, she's been to Arizona at a IACURH conference, New York at a NACURH conference, Colorado at this year's IACURH conference, she's helping to host the No Frills conference.....along with 14 credit hours (she's going into nursing), volunteering at the hospital and working a job at the library, she belongs to RHA where she's active in volunteer work and NRHH. Whew!!! Did I say she was a little stressed.....gee.....I'm not sure WHY. And on top of all this, she has a darling boyfriend who she adores. He's very nice and treats her well. He's pretty cute too! Well, enough! I'd better get back to whatever competition is going on in my house while I'm writing this.....until next time!