Jenna and Sarah

Buttons are Jenna’s new favorite thing. Not the kind on clothes, but the kind she can push. She loves to push buttons lately. She’s figured out that when she pushes a button, there’s a consequence. Including the giggling she gets from Daddy when she pushes his belly button. (Sorry, Jay, I sold you out. ) She has figured out how to turn the TV on & off. I think she would do it all day if I would let her. She carefully pushes the buttons on her toys that make music, and then she patiently waits until the music finishes before pushing it again to start over. OK, well maybe not patiently, but she now understands how it works.

OK, I should ban myself from Old Navy. I rarely go there, but today I discovered all the CUTENESS that resides in their children’s department! Really–I don’t think those clothes could be any cuter. There was so much I wanted to buy for Jenna, but I resisted. I was strong (which is more than I can say with regard to the cookie I’m eating right now). $16.50 is more than I want to pay for pants that my kid will outgrow in 2 months, so I will most likely be watching for those pants to go on sale. Oh, little girl clothes are so fun!

May 17, 1997. College graduation. Jay & I both graduated the same day, from the same college. Our families were there and we had a big party at his family’s lake house. We were 22. We’d been engaged for 2 months and would be married in 7 months. It was a happy day, and a happy (but confusing) time. I can’t believe it was 10 years ago! Sometimes people have a vision or a plan around the time they graduate from high school or college of where they will be in 10 years. I have to say that my life is much like I’d hoped. I never really had a 10-year plan, but I wanted to be married (of course, since I was engaged), wanted a good job, wanted to move back to Austin, wanted to travel a lot, and wanted at least 1 kid. I kinda thought I’d have 2 by now, but no matter. It’s funny how close I am to where I pictured myself, now that I think about it. I didn’t think too much about this far in the future at the time though–just wanted to follow where life and God took me. He’s been good. Very good.