Last night I let Coulson watch some of the Carolina basketball game. It was the first time he's ever watched a sporting event on TV and I was surprised that he gave it as much attention as he did. He liked that Carolina's colors were white and blue, but he thought the other team's mascot, the Cougars, was much cooler than the Tarheels.
He must have been listening to the commentators, because at one point in the game he said to me very seriously, "Mommy, the Carolina has to keep the ball alive."
Go Carolina! (And down here in Charlotte, we're also very proud of Davidson, and we cheering for an upset over Wisconsin tonight!)
In a recent post I declared that my family would be done with all of our illness by the end of February, thus enjoying March in complete health. Apparently the Powers That Be thought that declaration was a bit arrogant and decided to unleash a dreadful disease upon me. I didn't have the actual flu (my husband thinks he's an expert in these matters and insists that I did not have the flu) but it sure felt like it. I was out completely for a week (really hard to do with two small children!) and still dragging for a second week. Now I am finally on the mend and getting back to my regular routine.
Although I want to blog all about our trip to New York - visiting Casey's Aunt Mary and Grumpy (his grandpa) and my brother and niece and nephew, playing in snow, running a Shamrock Fun Run in freezing temperatures, and there's a great story about why for future plane trips I will pay extra for direct flights when traveling with children. (The story ends at 3:00 in the morning and still 90 miles from my home). But it's late and I really don't have the time for that right now, so I will leave you with a Conversation with Coulson -
On God:
"I know what God looks like. He has a beard. A big beard. Not a little one like Grandpa Bud. The biggest beard ever! It's even bigger than your hair!"
I've had this car for almost 10 years and today I had to say good-bye to it. (And yes, that is a hole in the side of my house!) I put a lot of miles on it when I was in college, driving back and forth from NC to PA. No problems through college and we were pretty sure it would serve us well through Casey's four years of medical school. But we didn't feel so confident about his three years of residency, as the mileage was well over 175,000. But it was good to us and we were happy when we finished and it was still running smoothly with only moderate, age-based repairs from time to time. Casey had been driving it since medical school and we had originally planned to upgrade for him when this one started to wear down. But this car was like the Energizer Bunny - it kept going and going. Well, after residency last summer, Casey told me that although we had planned that the next car would be for him, we really needed to upgrade the family car. At that point, I stopped cheering for the Engergizer Bunny and secretly hoped for its quick demise. So when Casey called me on his way home from work one day last month telling me that the car was shaking badly and making funny noises, I danced for joy. Then I quickly contacted local car dealers and I had already registered for Costco's auto program before he even got home. But at 197,000 miles, the Camry was a good car to us and I'm happy that it will now help another young girl get back and forth to college (ok, so it turned out that the shaking and nosies were easily fixable, but after my dance for joy, there was no going back)
Now I feel like a full-fledged mom because my car matches all the other cars in the preschool parking lot!
My mom got me a little coin purse from Kenya and I'm so glad that it can hold all of my essentials.
In fairness to the wonderful designers of this purse, I think they included the last item to help raise awareness for AIDS prevention and challenge the social taboo on the topic. But I still thought it was pretty funny.
If you can't read the text, click on the picture for a larger image. It describes their business.
