I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just bought my tickets to go see Harry! I think I'm going to start crying here in a minute! They're not great seats but I had to take Ann Catherine to Lowe's for a class for Girl Scouts (they made a cute little skeleton - us girls even figured out how to use a real hammer and nails between us!). Anyway, by the time I got home, the tickets had already been on sale for an hour and most of the good ones were gone. But that's OK because Tanya thinks she's going to be able to get us backstage!!!!! What in the world would I do backstage? I think I'd be so blown away that my words would come out sounding really stupid (if I could get them to come out at all!). I'm not normally speechless or in awe in the middle of celebrities - I live in Nashville and can't seem to avoid them! You just learn to treat them like normal people and move on (secretly thinking it's cool you got to at least see them though). But I wouldn't act weird. But this is Harry we're talking about here. I've had a crush on this man since I was 12 and Dad started playing his music at home. I think I'll be one of those girls meeting Elvis for the first time and all they can do is sob. How pathetic is that! Look at me - I'm rambling and not saying anything at all. It's already starting to get to my brain!

Almost Done!

Good news! Nanny just called and said she had just gotten through taking Ann Catherine to the doctor. He said her arm is healing really well and he took off the cast and put her in soft splint! She still has to be careful not to play on anything dangerous on the playground (which is pretty much everything!). But at least we're at the end of this second broken arm journey and she'll be OK to have her bouncy birthday next month. And, of course, that means that Mommy and Daddy should be getting the bill for all of this just in time to start buying Christmas presents! Whoo Hoo!

Help! I'm Raising a 7 Year Old Teenager!

Don't get me wrong - I love my daughter! She's kind, sweet, loveable and so helpful to me with Will and around the house. But lately, she seems to have TOTALLY hit teenagehood! And it scares me to death. I remember what I was like as a teenager and I'm not sure that I can raise one of those! She has started to become moody and angry and sometimes has a hard time controlling her emotions. She screams at the top of lungs when she's mad, goes stomping off to her room, slams the door, throws things around. She cries at the drop of a hat.

You know what scares me the most about this? It means we're quickly headed towards.....puberty. AAAHHHH! Just saying that word creeps me out. But honestly, when I think back to when I started getting all the "privileges" of becoming a woman, I wasn't too far from her age. Most major changes starting appearing when I was 8 and 9. So, with the fact that her 8th birthday is right around the corner, I guess I really shouldn't be surprised.

Honestly, though, more than anything it makes me sad. It makes my heart break just a little bit. When did my baby grow into a little girl to further develop into a really big girl? Worse yet, when did she start teetering on the fence towards pre-adolescence? I'm not ready! There's a reason I never could teach kids this age at church - I didn't like them! They talked back too much! I couldn't figure out how to deal with them! Maybe I need to start buying books on loving your adolescent. Maybe I need to start finding books on the five love languages to children you just really would love to strangle at times (not that I really would).

And maybe I need to start begging for my mother's forgiveness. Watching Ann Catherine change makes me heartbroken to think of what I put my mother through! No wonder she hid in her bedroom and cried so much when I hit adolescence!