Vacation!!!

World Cup soccer and vacation all at the same time!! I don't know what to do with myself. I'm more than ready after a couple stressful nights at work. In other news....

1. New words: Poobah (football...the real football) in honor of World Cup; Mommy; tucha (motorcycle...you figure that one out); and boy.

2. Washing machine is fixed!! Was it worth the $152 we spent? I don't know. Guess it beats buying a new one.

3. I'm struggling right now with being involved in a ministry at church. I'm not free on weekends due to my work schedule and am tired during the week trying to catch up. And I really want to use that time to be with my family. My pastor wants me (and I would love to do it) to help with our church's summer ministry in the migrant camps, since migrant farmworkers have a special place in my heart and I kind of have the background to do it. But I'm struggling with finding the time and the motivation, even though it's something that sounds like I would like to do. I was doing my devotions the other day (My Utmost for His Highest) and Oswald says that it's not about what makes me comfortable (the path is narrow and rough and few find it). He's right. But my flesh & spirit are at extreme odds with one another. Which makes me all the more want to do it. I know what Paul meant when he said "The thing I want to do, I do not do, but the thing I do not want to do, that I do."

4. USA is behind the Czech Republic 2-0 right now. Things do not look good. That's part of why we're pulling for Mexico!

5. One of my boy's favorite stuffed animals is a creature named Moomi that my Finnish friend Kirsi gave him when he was just a couple months old. He loves that thing and it absolutely has to be in his bed at bedtime or he won't sleep. The other night as Hubs was tucking him into bed (they usually cuddle in the bed for a bit before Wee One gets into his own bed) Daniel saw my teddy bear. (full disclosure: I'm 27 and sleep with a teddy bear my husband gave me when we were first dating.) He pointed to it and said "Moomi Mamá?" Never let it be said that anything slips past him.