Family

Today is one of those days. It's the day when I'm surrounded by babies and pregnant women, and I'm related to every one. There's crying, fussing and stinky diapers. So, is this something I really want? Am I really ready for a person to take over my life like this? Am I really ready to share Mark?
Then I stand back and watch this huge beautiful family. How can I not want to add to the precious love and joy in front of me. This sacrifice provides us all with something beautiful. Something we can all share. Someone we can spend our lives with.

Weird Dream

This one might be a little hard to follow, but this dream was so crazy I have to write it down so I’ll remember it. 

I was lurking around in the usual spy get-up, typical black tight pants and long sleeve shirt, this was one of those good dreams where your body looks awesome in said clothes and you can do all the cool athletic tricks that spies do.  I remember a trap door in the ceiling of a warehouse or something, and going through it into another world, I was outside and it was dark, and later in the dream I think going back through the trap door it was up in a tree…  Once through the door I started sneaking around in a “compound”, very spy movie-ish.  Then I started killing people!!!! What!?!?!? And I wasn’t just shooting them, oh no, no weapons for me; I was killing them with my bare hands. Of course I was killing them quietly, breaking necks and such. (Am I the only one that sometimes gets a little nervous when the chiropractor adjusts their neck?) And of course my Doberman was following me around, and of course since I didn’t have her ears done she wasn’t quite as fierce looking as I needed her to be, but she was there giving me her love all the same. I warned you this would be loopy!!  So now I’ve realized that I have a target somewhere in this compound, the president…no I’m not dreaming of killing O’Bama, when I finally find him, he’s some huge fat old white guy. So how I assassinated this mysterious president, who by the way, has really sucky body guards!! I was watching down the hall from me, he was there talking to one of his lackeys, where should I hide, I need a good spot to ambush him; I’ll lean on this wall and think. Score!! The wall opens and I get to find his secret study. So me and Kendan, aforementioned Doberman, crouch in the corner closet of the study waiting. He comes in and sits down and starts writing a letter.  I sneak up behind him and notice he’s holding a knife to his gut, so all I do is just push him over…mission accomplished.  Now it’s time to run!

Now comes the running away part, this part is way more complex I only wish I could do it justice, I know already that things are going to be left out. So Kendan and I take off across the lawn into the trees, up the tree, through the trap door and into the warehouse.  Next, me and my cohorts, yes apparently I have accomplices, are trying to sneak around in public places. “Oh, crap there’s a camera! Don’t look at it, the facial recognition software will catch us!” So now Candice and I have gotten into her car, and we’re driving away, still running, don’t want people to catch us for spying and killing. She starts following this truck with ramps and we just drive up on it. We get out and get into a silver jeep, you know, because Candice’s little green car was too noticeable, and off we go. (Candice, maybe you have a silver Jeep Cherokee in your future, or something.) For some reason our bosses think we can go to our homes for the night, we’ll be safe there just for tonight, until they can get us on a plane out of there.

So I’m home, I’m standing in my living room and I start hearing this thumping sound, I look out the window and there they are; lots of ninjas, in the back yard, on the roof, everywhere. Crap! They found me! So Mark and I stand there watching and getting ready, yep Mark is now an accomplice too, my friends and family are so loyal!! :D  Mark suddenly pulls on this really weird mask, grabs a sword (we have swords in several rooms in our house), calls himself Drake, no idea where that came from, and runs out the back door to take on the ninjas. I run to the bedroom and there are two chick ninjas in there. I’m so scared at this point I can feel myself starting to twitch in my sleep. Suddenly I have a mace in my hand (yes we have one of those too, even though I have no idea where in my house it is) and I start slinging it at them. Here comes the gross part… I was able to clobber one of them over the head with it, there was this awful popping sound, yep it was the sound of her skull popping…and then I woke up.

I went to the bathroom, luckily that woke up Mark so he was able to cuddle me the rest of the night and protect me from mace wielding Jen. I know for the most part this isn’t that crazy of a dream, we all have flying dreams and super power dreams, but all I can hear all morning is that popping sound.  I’m afraid I’m going to burst out crying or screaming any minute.

When I went back to sleep I remember we went back to running for our lives, in airports and such. I can’t remember if we got caught but Tanner gave us away at the airport by standing there looking at a surveillance camera in a daze…but of course everyone (everyone being Candice, Tanner, Cousin Michelle and Mark) made it on the plane, except me, the plane actually started turning away from the platform as I walked up to it. Somehow this airport was in way up in the sky and if I'd have stepped out I would have fallen, so instead I ran away. I have no idea what happened to the heroic Dobey though. Somehow I got stuck in the bathroom with some crazy chicks and was whisked away into a dream with lots of snow and cliffs.

Now that I’m done writing this and am once again haunted by this sound I think, “Why the heck do I want to remember this?” I think it might exclusively be for remembering my husband’s sword swinging alter ego Drake!

Love you!  Hope everyone has a wonderful Friday!!

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