It used to be that blogging was as much a part of my daily life as drinking coffee, but that sure hasn't been the case lately! I'm on the road too much these days--and although I lug my ginormous, heavy old laptop hither and yon, whether I'm traveling by car or by plane (because my husband and I are never home long enough to get my new smaller, lighter laptop loaded and ready to go!), I rarely get around to using it for the purpose of blogging. Actually doing stuff, instead of spending my time telling you about the stuff I'm doing--or stuff I'm thinking about doing, or stuff that I did twenty years ago, or stuff that I wish I had the guts to do--has been getting in the way, I guess. That is a sign, I believe, that life has been very full...and very good.
My husband and I drove out to South Bend over the long Labor Day weekend to visit our youngest son, and also to meet up with my husband's seven siblings and various and sundry members of their families. We always try to get together for at least one Notre Dame home game every season, and this was the weekend everyone was able to make it. It was the 2013 "Pearl-a-Palooza," an event that gets more epic with each passing year. We rented a big house, had a big tailgater before and after the game, and basically just enjoyed being together, laughing, talking, and drinking an adult beverage or two.
We got to see the Irish win their Saturday opener against Temple, handily. During his outdoor comedy show on the South Quad Thursday night, comedian Jim Gaffigan made fun of the fact that we were playing Temple, which is hardly a football powerhouse; but still, it was a W. Gaffigan joked, "Was DeVry not available?" (What a great show! My husband and I arrived a few hours beforehand, after our 16-hour road trip--with plenty of time pull up a good patch of grass fairly close to the stage, along with our youngest son and some other family members.)
Okay, let's see. What else can I tell you about the weekend? Oh, yeah...by now you've probably heard about the souvenir soda cups from the game.
Our son, who is a junior out there this year, thinks the students should just run with it--you know, make t-shirts with a picture of the ND leprechaun's head, arms, and legs poking out of a Fig Newton body, or something along those lines. If we laugh at ourselves, ND-haters won't get any satisfaction out of making fun of us over this unfortunate typo/editing disaster.
Sheesh--typos! They are absolutely the bane of my existence. Now they're the bane of ND fans' existence as well. But you have to pick your battles, and you can't fig about every little thing. Sometimes you just have to put down your dukes, laugh, and move on.
It sure was great to see my baby boy out at Our Lady's university.
It was also great to do some shopping for my grand-babies: cheerleading uniforms for the twins and a polo dress for Little Gal. I'd say we've got them all outfitted for the ND-Air Force game a few weeks from now. That's the next game we plan to attend, out at the AF Academy in CO--which is literally minutes from where our little sweeties live. Papa and I will be killing two birds with one stone when we head out west on that trip.
I almost got a chance to meet up with South Bend native Katrina, whose blog is called "Cedars & Tiny Flowers," but our plans fell through. I'm hoping when we go back out to ND for the Oklahoma game she and I will be able to make it work out. That would be wild to meet a blogger I admire but have only known on-line up to this point.
So you see, life is good. I'm a lucky, lucky lady, and don't I know it. I'm traveling a lot these days to see my far-flung chicks, but I'm fortunate that my husband's airline career provides us with a way to do that without going into the poor house.
That's it for now, but before I go I just want to say thank you to my blogging friend Sarah Therese over at "Footprints on My Heart." Aside from writing for her personal blog, Sarah has also joined other young Catholic women bloggers at "The Catholic Young Woman," and today she posted a great review of Finding Grace on that site. If you'd like to read it, just click on this link:
http://catholicyoungwoman.blogspot.com/2013/09/finding-grace.html.
Again, thanks, Sarah Therese. And thanks, too, for the "Scrumptious Blog Award" nomination! (My cup runneth over!) I will work on that in the coming days. :)
I was following the ND game on my iPod app-- looked like a good one! Congrats on the win. And it's absolutely my pleasure to write the review! It was such a joy to read the book. I almost wished it was longer, lol!
ReplyDeleteGod bless you!
I have missed you! Have checked every morning and am so happy to see you again!
ReplyDeleteOh ... and I love the typo cup.... it's awesome.