What a weekend! It was great. My goal was to have all the cleaning and any other "dirty" work done by Friday night, which we managed to get done. The only other thing we had to do was to re-sweep the floors Saturday night, no biggie.
Saturday I got to spend decorating a little bit, setting up tables and a few extra chairs and picking up the cross cake we got for Austin. However, when Ashley & I picked it up, it said "Congratulations Dustin". LOL Uh Houston...we have a problem. The lady in the bakery was super sweet and said "I'm so sorry this happened, give me 5 min and it'll be taken care of, and it was.
Saturday night I had a terrible time sleeping. Part of the time I would wake up and worry that there was something I had forgotten (which I hadn't). The other part of the time I would wake up and get teary-eyed thinking about my little boy becoming a young man. I am sooooo proud of him and am enjoying watching him grow up, but at the same time, I want my "little boy" to stay little forever. Of course then my thoughts would turn to my 2 sweet daughters and I would think "and they are moving on with their lives" and the tears would flow! I don't do change well, especially when it's not a welcome change.
Sunday was a BEAUTIFUL day! Seriously, I couldn't have asked for it to be any better...sunny & 70 degrees. The service was nice and then Pastor called the Confirmation kids forward. I could feel my emotions starting to churn. Austin was first and Pastor asked for family & friends to come forward, which meant: Parents, Godparents & Austin's Mentor. During the blessing and prayer for Austin, we were asked to place our hands on him and that's when I felt the tears starting to build. Even now, I get choked up thinking about it. Pastor gave us each a chance to say something to Austin and I just said "I love you and I'm so proud to have you as my son". When we sat down a couple of tears did fall, but Jay squeezed my hand and I did good after that. I thought the Pastor did a great job of relating to the kids during the sermon, even interacting with them.
Austin's party went well, and all too fast it was over. Sunday night we were ALL in bed early. Yesterday I was dragging all day long. I just had zero energy. I checked emails and downloaded the pictures, and ran an errand for Jay (who was finally in the field WOOHOO!). Then we went to Austin's very last junior high track meet. It was a beautiful night for the meet. Jay went back to the field after Austin was done running and I tried desperately to stay awake to wait for him to come home, but by 10:15 I felt numb and as if I was falling asleep while walking, so I called him and said I was sorry, but I had to go to bed. I slept so hard that when I woke up around 3am to go to the bathroom, I had no clue what day it was (I hate when that happens).
Today I'm feeling much better and am ready to tackle the upcoming Graduation party. Although, I know it's going to be an emotional couple of weeks.
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