One evening after we put the kids to bed, Randy told me he was going to go out to find Saturn and wondered if I wanted to join him. I told him that I would join him, if he just so happened to find it. Then I went on half-heartily sweeping the floor and folding the clothes piled high on the couch around me. I think I may have even started feeling a little sorry for myself and my little earthly existence where laundry and daily chores often pull me down like gravity.
Just a few minutes later, he came in to inform me that he had found it and wondered if I wanted to see it. "Sure" I said. I pulled on my jacket and followed him out into the chill night air. It's always interesting to look at a little dot through the telescope. Even if it is just a little dot of light, it usually shines a little brighter in the telescope than it does to the naked eye. It's still just a little dot though-big deal, right?
He had to re-adjust the telescope for me because the earth had spun Saturn right out of our view. This big old earth, it just keeps turning. Finally he found it again and I looked into the lense. I let my eyes adjust and prepared myself to be amazed...kinda, but not really. Nice. Then I gasped! This was different! Was it real? I was actually seeing a beautiful round planet with rings around it! The rings totally took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting it. My heart beat faster. WOW! I stood there for a long time, feet on earth, gazing into the heavens, until the earth finally spun Saturn right out of my view again.
A lot of old thoughts flooded back into my soul as I straitened up and stepped back from the telescope. I looked up to Saturn again and just saw the light of the planet shining down on me. I had viewed it for the first time and I asked myself how many times have I seen it in my life but not realized what I was seeing? I wondered how many people in the history of the world have ever viewed this inspiring sight? Not a picture but the real thing, rings and all, shining in the chill night sky.
My steps felt a little lighter as I walked back to the warmth of my house, with my life and my laundry waiting for me. I silently thanking my husband for pulling me away for a minute and helping me to lift my eyes, my heart and my soul.
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In other news...
We went shoe shopping the other day. All of the kids, without exception, are growing up.
The bunny still hasn't had any babies. We're beginning to wonder if she's gonna have any at all. We'll keep you posted.
I added a sidebar twitter gadget-thing to my blog. It's not for social networking. It's just for a tool to use when I want to give little updates (about baby bunnies, etc.) or write something on the blog but don't want to do a post about it until later or never... whichever is first.
Sometimes I look at my better half and I know from the bottom of my heart that he is my "better" half. No question. Where would I be without him? He encourages me in all the right things. ♥♥♥
School is over in less than a month. {all together now}... YAY!!!!!!!
My 5th blogiversary came and went without my noticing it in April. After 5 years I guess I still find plenty of stuff to blog about. Crazy...
There is a bag of chocolate chips in the cupboard from December. I have now been chocolate-free for... 4 months, 7 days, 7 hours, 40 minutes, and 50-some seconds. I don't even think about it much anymore. Honest.
If you have read this entire post, you deserve a BFF award. It's true.
I get the" BFF" from my daughter. She's that age, you know.
All for now (until June 1st).
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Love, Alison
