The Help and a Double Date

I read The Help what seems like a long time ago now.  I knew at the time that I wanted to see it made into a movie.  Today I got to see the movie!  I was able to arrange with Ms. Shareen (a teacher that Layne and Jacob had at Primrose) to babysit.  She came over to my parents about 2:45 p.m. and we left to see the movie.  Mom, Dad, Matthew and I all got to go together.  

I cried in the movie.  The book was moving - but it really got to me seeing it on the big screen.  Miss Hilly Holbrook is evil, just pure evil.

We even went and had pizza again after the movie so we could talk about the movie.  We all loved.

The kids had a great time with Ms. Shareen, of course.  They were playing Wii when we got back and they were all very gleeful in telling us that "Joshua is better than Ms. Shareen".

We made it to church this morning.  Not sure how Joshua ended up in the service and not in Sunday School.  I got there a little trying to make sure I had everything for my meeting following the service.  The first thing that Joshua asked me was if I had brought a snack.  (I had not)  Imagine his surprise when he heard that we were going to get bread (it was Communion Sunday).  He was getting so anxious to "go get bread".  I must have heard 3 times "Mommy I want to get bread" before I had to tell him that "this bread is not a snack - this is Communion and part of the service".  He was bummed.  He got his "bread and juice" though.

Had another scare this week with running water in the upstairs bathroom.  I was upstairs getting laundry done and heard running water.  When I went in to the bathroom someone had put the stopper in the sink and had left the water running.  It was just about to overflow when I got in the bathroom.  I turned off the water and used my really good Mommy voice to ask which child had been last in the bathroom.  I heard a quick reply from both Jacob and Layne "Not me" but didn't hear from Joshua.  I looked down in to the living room and Joshua was fidgeting.  I asked Joshua if he had left the water running.  I got the typical Joshua grin and a "No, it wasn't me" response.  I told him to come upstairs immediately and clean up the bathroom and drain the sink.  While he was stomping up the stairs I hear him ask "How did you know it was me?  I tried not to smile".  Oh, good grief.

Had wonderful news on Friday from my favorite nurse at Norton Hospital that assured me that Susan is still with us.  The Susan we know and love.  What a blessing and answer to prayer that conversation was to me.  She is never far from our thoughts and always in our prayers.

Will have to update on the 10th Birthday of Jacob and Layne another day.

One trip back from Knoxville with everyone (I think after Aunt Dee's 80th birthday party) - Grandma, Papa Jack, Layne, Jacob and Joshua - we stopped at MacKay's Book Store in Chattanooga.  Right before the bookstore there was this sign almost covered with Kudzu that referenced a Confederate Cemetery.  We drove back and there was a cemetery with mostly unmarked graves of 155 soldiers from General Braggs' Army in 1862.  It was an interesting find.  I had to take a picture - so here you go: