Generational Dare Devils

Look at my baby! Can you believe the nerve! Leave 'em alone outside for a few minutes and this is what happens! First, I have a new oval four-wheeler dirt track running around my backyard. Next, they decide they are Evil Knievel wannabe's. She looks so tiny on that big o' four-wheeler.



This one is the instigator of the whole ordeal. He was so proud of himself for taking his baby sister under his wing and teaching her not only how to jump it but also how to, (as he put it) drift. Yes, that's right. My eleven year old understands how to make a motorized vehicle's back-end slide through the curves. I mean, where do these kids learn these things?
One would think that these children are being raised by irresponsible, immature, silly, crazy.... Well, you get the point. But really, where would they have ever learned such nonsense?


Hmmm, never mind all that stuff before....

Sendin' a Shout Out

Have you ever met someone and instantly bonded with them? That's the way things were for us three girls.

This girls came into my life with this crazy nursing program. I'll tell you a little about them. That's Shannon on the left. She's awesome. She works on a surgical floor, has a couple of kids with the same "kid issues" that mom's experience on a daily basis. She frequently threatens to gouge her own eye out with her pen. Okay so you all probably don't think that is especially funny but I do. And really, that's what counts, right?
In the middle is Cicily. She's the bomb. She never studies but has an understanding of anatomy and physiology that would put most physicians to shame. You wanna know exactly where the hepatobiliary duct is and what it does? Just ask Ciss. She can tell you. All the while, Shannon and I are looking at each other and thinking the same thing... "Is there a hepatobiliary duct?" Well, Shannon and I aren't quite that bad but next to Ciss, we look like it!
I was thinking about these girls today. (We took our last final today.) I've come to the conclusion that God puts people in your life for a reason. I truly believe that some of those people are destined to become like soul mates. They make you stronger, smarter, happier, and an all around better person. That's what my girls do for me. I only hope that I have been able to touch their lives in the same way.

Shannon, Shelly, Cicily
(The day we took our "senior pictures"!)