Children's Museum and more!

The kids and I are visiting Chris's parents in Indiana right now and we're having a great time! We went to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis yesterday and the kids had so much fun! It's huge, and we only saw a fraction of it during the 3 hours we were there. We'll have to go back because it was a definite hit with the kids.










Here are a few random ones from throughout the week





Claire is going to be a princess for Halloween




Sorry for overloading you with pictures. This is partly for Chris because he is really missing the kids (and me, of course!) and he wanted to see what we had been up to.

What can we do?

I'm sure that we all know people who are struggling right now with whatever trials are in their lives. Often times I feel helpless or just don't know what I can do to help anyone else. Or I'm just so consumed with my crazy life that I think that I don't have time to help anyone else. I wanted to share with you something a very good friend of mine told me when she was trying to figure out how to help a good friend of ours who was dealing with some pretty stressful things in her life. She said:

"I was so heartbroken knowing that Stacey had been going through such tough times and had been keeping it locked inside for so long. I thought "what can I do to help her?" In all reality, there was nothing I could "do" but support and show her all the love I could. Unfortunately, I could not be there for her to lend her my shoulder. But there was something I COULD do. I was inspired! I looked around me...I saw a neighbor who had shut down, she seemed in some kind of turmoil or pain. Normally I would have looked the other way, but I said "what if I could make a difference? What if she really needs someone to talk to?" So I did it. I went over to her house yesterday and asked her if she wanted to come over, talk and have a glass of wine. We have never done this before and I am so glad I asked. Turns out, she did need someone to talk to, she broke down about her son being in Iraq, her Mother-in-law dying of cancer who will not make it past this week and her husband who just lost his job with the LPGA. I had no idea. She was at rock bottom and told me that I saved her."

I was so touched by what she did, and it really inspired me to look outside of myself and find those people who are struggling, and be a friend. I encourage everyone else to do the same.