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20{4}40 – The Architect and a Movie

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 Lenten Challenge Following Ann, counting my blessings. 
541. Friday at the end of a very long week

542. Looking forward to a movie tonight with the family
543. Understanding Guidance Counselor
544. Uber sweet, overripe grapefruit
545. Flax seed flat bread with peanut butter
546. Coffee (can I be thankful for that every day?)
547. Seeing a movie – in a theater!
The Architect  (and me, if you look closely!)
548. Picking up The Architect’s friends to take them all to the movie
549. A van full of teenage boys
550. Noticing little girls looking at The Architect and Friends and giggling
551. Watching The Architect and Friends interact with their girl friends (Not girlfriends, girl friends)
552. The Architect graciously inviting DirtBike hang with him and Friends
553. The Friends being genuinely great young men
554. Movie theater popcorn
555. Black licorice
556. Skittles for DirtBike
557. Sour rope things for The Architect
558. Hop
559. Visiting with Friends parents at the designated pick up spot
560. Knowing we have a pretty big ‘village’ of like minded parents to accompany us as we raise our children

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20{4}40 – Bikes, Breast Cancer and Boobs

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Lenten Challenge Following Ann, counting my blessings. 

521. Sunshine
522. Company Bicycles
523. The brilliant idea of painting my bike helmet pink
524. Bike ride along the Trinity
525. A 2.6 pound loss this week
526. Finally getting off the plateau
527. Persistence
528. Buff Chad for teaching me the proper form for planks, situps and pushups
529. Being able to share my [limited] fitness knowledge with others
530. 5K opportunities
531. Promising to walk with a friend on a 5K in May – walk with her, not run for me
532. Rosemary Olive Oil pretzel crisps
533. Fresh haircut
534. New Style
535. Hair dryer
536. Flat iron
537. Christine’s recovery from breast cancer
538. Her last round of Chemo
539. Her looking forward to new, perkier boobs
540. Being able to laugh with Christine about the thought of new, perkier boobs

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20{4}40 – The Architect and Graduation

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The Architect and Friends

481.  The Architect
482. Passion Play for the parish

483. Silly Guard uniform for Passion Play, complete with leather skirt, chest plate and plumed helmet
484. The seriousness with which The Architect considers his role in the Passion Play
485. The somber moment when he says, “Mom, I don’t want to be the one to kill Jesus.”
486. The immediate moment after when he says, “I’ll just let our roles drop for a minute and see just C***y standing there. I can hit him easy and he won’t care.”

487. Graduation from 8th grade

488. Plans for graduation celebrations

489. May Crowning
490. Living Rosary
491. The Architect wanting to say the Hail Mary in Portuguese
492. Husband trying to remember how to say the Hail Mary in Portuguese!
493. Rosary I made for The Architect for his first communion
494. 8th Grade Mass for the Diocese
495. Day trip to the Ranch
496. Swimming
497. 8th grade teachers who are very gracious and diplomatic in the way they enforce the “modest swimsuit” rule for the Ranch trip
498. Anticipating all the parties and fun that goes with launching our kids to high school
499. The Architect’s Friends, who have been his friends since preschool
500. Knowing my kids know Jesus

Lenten Challenge Following Ann, counting my blessings. 

EMail Anglea Pea