Life Is Good!

 Last night it was Landon's turn to spend the night.  Honestly, I was ready for it!  He is so easy----after all, he is 11.  But his staying overnight has been easy since the first time.  

This happened because he asked if we could go to Olive Garden for his birthday, then watch The Call of the Wild (the movie we were supposed to see LAST year for his birthday but I got sick as we were walking into the theatre), then spend the night.  When his folks dropped him off last night (after he had spent the night with Cameron on Friday, then had gone with Grandma Jan to lunch, and he was tired), I thought we were going to postpone because he was upset and crying and just tired.  But he pulled himself together and stayed.  

I am glad he did.

Our plans for Olive Garden didn't materialize.  The wait for a pick up order was TWO HOURS!  We opted for Fazoli's instead.  That sounded like a good choice, but in reality, it wasn't.  He didn't like his spaghetti...but he did eat a few breadsticks.  

The movie?  Oh my.  It was so good.  Harrison Ford was the main human character, at least in the second half of it.  But it was fun to watch, and fun to see how Landon was reacting.  I explained to him (teacher moment) that London usually has non-human characters in his short stories and novels. In this case not only was Harrison Ford playing a main character, but Buck was really the main character throughout the story.  It was fun also to be cheering for Buck when he was stolen from his first owners, when he was being beaten with a club, and when he wanted to be the lead dog for the mail sled.

After Buck was happy in his new home, in the wild,  Gary and Landon were going to watch Dunkirk since Landon is really into World War II.  I am not, so I went to bed and read another chapter in Virgin River, the first book in the series by Robyn Carr that is a series on Netflix.  Gary said this morning that they finally stopped watching at 11 because Landon was drifting off.

This morning? It is 9:00 and he is still asleep.  We are not watching online church services because we don't want to wake him.  He needs sleep.  

Gary has checked on Dotti, the goat who is about to give birth, twice.  No signs of imminent childbirth yet.

I added my Jesus Calling daily post (great message today) and posted in the forum that Rhonda and I use for Joyce Meyer's devotions.  Excellent message from Joyce this morning too.

A cup of tea in my snowflake mug while I posted those two above and added something to the daily DWLZ forum.  

Then I popped a pan of cinnamon rolls into the oven.  I made two batches of cinnamon rolls just before Christmas, separating them into five pans of five rolls each, then encasing them in Saran Wrap and foil before putting them in the freezer.  We baked two pans for Christmas Eve and morning, then another pan last weekend when Cooper and Lynnlee were here overnight.  This pan I let rise on the stovetop as the oven was pre-heating (and about 10 minutes after it reached 350*).  They rose nicely, baked well, and the one I ate was SO good!

Landon just came downstairs and proofread what I had just written.  He slept for 10 hours!  He is raring to go this morning!  On to making some oatmeal waffles, his favorite.

Yes, Life Is Good!