We had a great week. My son Zach is home from camping. He had a wonderful time and came home with lots of bug bites. He hiked so much that he lost weight this week. Gentry is almost ready to go back to BYU. She has worked for me all Summer and I am going to really miss her.
She enjoyed some down time this week with her friend Chandler. I had to give her a big MOM lecture in that she layed outside at the pool all day this week and got very burned. I wish she would listen to me about sun damage and cancer. Trust me I try trying!
The MHS drill team performed for the first time this weekend at their football game. The girls did a great job and McKay is enjoying her role on the team. Although, I miss all the baseball games since we only have Fall ball left, I LOVE knowing Winter time is spent watching McKay dance. I LOVE going to the competitions, Football and Basketball games, etc.
This little guy raced in his second BMX race Friday night in Farmington. I missed the first time, with my back injury. He raced one race and he had a great start and was leading the race. I started to cry as I watched him. The race was over and Ty had come in first place. This meant he would qualify to go into the championship round. (They take three bikers for the final). My husband saw me crying and that it made me emotional- he is so used to this and I had to just comment that I am not afraid to show how I feel and how much it meant to me to watch him do something that he loves. He went to the final round and won. It was a close race and he was just so happy that night! He is a beginner and so he has a lot to learn.
Yesterday, I went to see the movie, The Help with Gentry and McKay. I have to say that I have not had a movie touch me so deeply in a very long time. I cried often in the movie. I grew up in the South and I grew up in a community that still treated "black people" differently. I remember riding on the school bus and children not sitting beside the boy and his sister who were MIXED. It was still taboo to play with a black child if you were white. I did not understand. I remember how members of my own family did not think it was acceptable to mix the races. I recall when I was 16 years old, I was friends with a boy who I met at my first job. I worked at McDonalds and he needed a ride home one day after our shift. I remember how mad this made my mother- that I gave a black person a ride. She would have been really upset if she knew that I secretly had a crush on Michael Jackson at the time.
When I went to college, my sister had a black boyfriend. My sister had tried to hide it from the family at first. This did not go over well. I have always thought it was wrong to judge anyone for their race, sex or religion. I am thankful that by the time my mother passed away that she had opened her heart. The movie was a beautiful reminder to me that we are ALL God's children, that HE loves ALL of us equally. This world needs LOVE and there is no room for hate. It hurts me to know of the unnecessary pain and suffering that was caused due to complete ignorance.
Tomorrow I am taping the remainder of the MY CRAFT CHANNEL episodes. My car is completely FULL of projects. I know it will be a fun but LONG day. I am so fortunate to be able to do this. It will debut next month and let me say that I'm over the top excited for the line up of hosts involved in the MCC productions.
Have a FABULOUS day!!!!!
