Funny Day

This is Asher close to midnight... this... morning?
He had gotten a container of chocolate frosting and really enjoyed the five minutes or so before he was caught chocolate-handed. When I grabbed my camera, he came running at me with his chocolate hands outstretched. I was running backward when I got this photo.














We had QUITE a storm this evening. First the clouds moved in, then the wind was INSANE, THEN the rain started. I was taking this picture when I heard peals of laughter from the back yard... It was Valerie and Alexis. I called them in, but rather than come in the back, they walked allllll the way around the house, where I was waiting with a camera.







Afterward, I could tell by the rainbow and highlighting of the houses across from us in amazing yellow/orange light, we must have been getting a spectacular sunset. I opened the curtains, then ran outside with my camera. It was just breath-taking.






I felt a spiritual feeling. The entire sky was lit up and vibrant. The remaining clouds looked like wisps of spooling liquid gold. It looked for all the world like the sun rays were reaching right toward our house and my heart. I thought then... "how great it is to suffer through storms of life, for it is only with tumultuous clouds that such a magnificent, inspiring sunset is possible."

How true that is. If life is always sunny and bright, there are no amazing sunsets.
There are perfectly ok sunsets, but the glorious sunsets... they only take place when there are also clouds present.

Tomorrow Matt goes to therapy session number two. How interesting this road will be for him. It took me 20 years of therapy and talking it out to finally be "ok" with the violations I suffered. Honestly here... I don't have that long to wait for our lives to improve. It is STRESSING me out. You have no idea.

I felt panic today like I have never felt it before. However, the sunset calmed my soul a bit this night.