301!!!

cel * e * brate:

-verb 
1.  to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities.

But I also liked definition number seven as well:

7.  to have or participate in a party, drinking spree ( of coke zero nightly!), or uninhibited good time.  

We here at the Earnest house are most definitely feeling the need to celebrate.  As I've contemplated the 300th post for some time now, the only thing that sounded appropriate to express how I felt was, "celebrate", or "celebration".  As I mulled it over throughout the weekend, it has done nothing but cheer me and encourage me.  The list of things we have to celebrate is lengthy, and grows longer by the day. 

Top of the list right now:

 
Ruby sleeping with her mouth closed!  This is huge.  This is part of what motivated the surgery (that and the fact that the tonsils were so big they were fusing together!).  She had had a rough night/morning and by 2pm she was past spent.  I helped her find her way to her bed and tried to make her as comfortable as possible.  When I came back a half hour later, I had to take the picture to document the success of it all.  I haven't seen her breathing with her mouth closed, in I don't know how long!  Recovery is torturous, but good health is worth celebrating!!  Cheers to Ruby.   

Our stuff is gone.  Our  SIXTH move is well underway.  And to top it all off, the offspring are thriving, happy and well adjusted.  They are optimistically counting down the remaining 14 days in Korea.  They look to the future and our new "home" with courage and strength.  There is very little complaining that it is our sixth move in twelve years!  Only a wee bit of complaining that there is NOTHING to do now.  Hang on there little offspring, enjoy the calm before the storm!  Hats off to move number 6!!

June 2008

To celebrate how far we've come in Korea, how much we've learned,  how much the kids have grown, how different we are now than we were when we came, I want to give away a "CELEBRATE" banner.  This one to be exact:

 

If you don't have one already, you really should.  There are so very many reasons one might want to hang a "celebrate" banner up in their home.  I know I've left mine up for almost 4 months straight, because every time I went to take it down, I thought of a new reason to leave it up.  

So there you go, my gift to you!!  All you have to do it leave a comment.  Just say "hi", or tell me what you are celebrating right now.  I don't really care what you say in the comment.  Whether I know you, or not, it's all the same to me.  Don't be shy, it's time to CELEBRATE!!!

Let's see how many comments we can get.  I say I'll give the banner away on Wednesday, May 19th.  We'll take all the comments from this post, stick them in a bowl, and let one of the lucky little Earnests pull out a winner.  It should be fun, just the way life is.  

To sum it all up, the blog has helped me over the years look back and appreciate all that we have, all the places we've been, the times I'd forget if I hadn't written them down.  So I celebrate the blog!  

Okay, that's it.  Let's see who I get to mail this banner off to...