a life beyond running shoes.

well soccer season is under way.  an opening day and two games and we are in full swing.  opening day consists of kids in the back of pick-ups riding down main street (we don't actually have a main street but it might as well be called that).  it is a lot of whoop-la. i had a bad attitude. apparently it is enjoyed by many.... but not this mom. go rockets!!! go comets!!! little bit was dyno-mite on the feild. he got out there and tore it up.  can't say that there is any resemblance to the kid that played last year.  i am not sure where he went but  apparently he was replaced by a soccer player!! and here is peanut in the goal.  more pics of him to come!!   happy fall.

inkheart . by cornelia funke. same author as the thief lord .  the essence of magic realism. so know going in there is a suspension of disbelief that i enjoy.... there is a clear bad guy. interesting good guy. daughter. interesting secondary characters. lot of books. italy. all for a fun and enjoyable read.  there is a mystery that unfolds as you read about these characters.  i am  not sure i  know what else to say other than that i enjoyed it. it was also a good balance to the other things i had been reading. perhaps i enjoy a bit of escapism now and then.  i finally finished the percy jackson series.... the last one being the last olympian . i have to admit i enjoyed them.  of course, i was not reading them as a mom who will one day have a teenage son (or two).... so the attitude or angst was not annoying to me as a reader.  i was along for the ride of king kronos engaging in a war with the half-blood children of the gods of olympus. ...

i am not sure i even know where to begin. i think i am changed. i don't think i can go backwards. i think i am on a journey..... one that god is working and unfolding. i am pretty sure he has been working on these things for more than just this summer, in fact for years, but i think the books i encountered this summer are part of moving us forward and moving us deeper.  hubbie and i have always had this heart but i realized we have been okay just saying that we could not do it "right now."  i repent. i have been lazy. i have had a hard heart.  my heart does not look like jesus. it is not okay.  i have to move toward jesus and toward others.  he is calling me to himself.....  freedom of simplicity . by richard fotster. he takes the other two books from previous post and grounds them. he completely argues that simplicity is a spiritual issue.  it is a spiritual maturity issue.  it something to be cultivated, practiced, exercised.  i k...

we went into the mission district for a sabbath outing.  we played on a playground, kicked the soccer ball, saw a tightrope walker, ate vietnamese food, had great company, and saw a naked man (peanut asked if it was because he was poor....nope, just san francisco)..... all in a day's adventure out of marin. 

i have to admit.... i didn't think it would be the oakland a's. but the kids had a ball!!! peanut was upset when we left for an inning to go buy hats!  and it was a crazy game.... 22 runs. it will be a shame when they go to another game and there aren't as many hits! showing off our new hats!!!