is it spring yet?

i just lost my 6th consecutive game of Carcassonne.
yes, it's sad, i know.
when we first got it i won all the time, but Nu has a new strategy that's just killing me.
i HATE losing!!!
he must feel sorry for me because he didn't even sing his 'loser song' this time.

this morning started out with a rush trip to the grocery store for eggs at 8:00.
man, it was cold today! i can't wait for spring.
i went dressed in shorts, no socks, an old red shirt, vest, and green toque, with very wet hair and no eyeliner (!).
now, it's not normal for me to go out looking like that, and i found myself formulating explanations in my head on the way there..."i didn't have time to do my hair this morning...my only jeans are in the wash...i borrowed my husband's toque so my head wouldn't be cold..."
then i laughed and realized that i have no one that i owe an explanation to (in the area of odd appearance anyway) and i can go out looking funny if i so please! so my cashier did not get a 30 second explanation of my wet hair and unshaven legs, just a "Good Morning" and a "no, it wasn't raining when i arrived." maybe i'm growing up.

the moose has been such a banana boy lately. he was looking in the banana cupboard this morning while i was out shopping, but there were no bananas there, and the second i got home he rooted around in my bags til he found them. i think he's eaten 3 or 4 small ones today. yikes.
he's also been taking 30-45 minutes to go to sleep, crying his way there, lately, which is driving me nuts and making me pray fervently that this will stop by August when i want to move him into his sister's room. yikes again.

church was so so good this morning...our pastor spoke on a passage in Acts, and focused on the need for urgency in our evangelism, in word as well as in deed...he reminded us that if we really believe in hell (which he pointed out is in fact in our bibles, contrary to popular belief!) we should feel an urgency to tell others about the way out. he also spoke on freedom, not as the world sees it (free to do as you please, may it lead you ever quickly to destruction) but as the Word shows us, in Christ. he spoke on the me-centered gospel that is ruining our churches and convincing our generation that they should 'make-up-their-faith-as-they-go'...a kind of create your own ending story where the world revolves around us and not God. then he spoke on the fear of God and the need for more of it. awesome awesome stuff. it feels so good to be part of church where it seems the leadership is standing firmly on God's Word, not watering it down, not blatantly misinterpreting it, not using it to prove their points. we are blessed.