The End Is Here

Well it had to happen, although I always wish it wouldn't!! After a wonderful fun filled summer, school starts this Friday. I really am excited in a wierd sort a way. The class is all ready - new locker tags in place, all the pencils are sharpened and the bullentin boards are done. Michele has been a big help in getting it all ready - what will I ever do without her. David moved this weekend to Arlington Heights which is about 7 minutes from our house. We get to see him on a much more frequent basis which I love. Also with his job, he might be gone for an extended period of time which means I will have to go over and take care of his "woggie" Bear. I love that dog, but love him so much more when all the fur stays at David's place. This Thursday is Michele's 25th Birthday. I love that my sister Susan has started the tradition of posting things we like about the person who is celebrating a birthday. I have been making a mental list of things to put on Michele's B.Day list. Here they go in no particular order:
THINGS OF LOVE ABOUT MY DAUGHTER MICHELE:
1. She is always kind to everyone and as far as I know never been mean to anyone (even her brothers who often made her life a living Hell!!)
2. The way she gets all teary eyed when she goes into Sam's Club and sees the old people giving out samples. She thinks they should not have to work - we tell her they probably enjoy it.
3. That she brought Nathan into our lives - he truly loves her and respects her and that makes us so happy.
4. What an amazing teacher she is. I sometimes listen to her listens in Young Womans and I wonder who this child is and how did she get to know so much.
5. How she loves to read. She always has and if she has a book, you will find her with her nose in it.
6. How organized she is. I though I could always make Martha Stewart look like a slacker, but Michele can organize circles around me.
7. How she loves watching stupid kid movies and television. I know she would not want everyone to know but she loves Nick at Nite and watches it when she thinks no one else is watching her.
8. What a righteous young woman she it. She makes going to the temple a priority in her life and always strives to do the right thing. She will have a Christ centered home.
9. HOw she loves sports - especially football. She knows more about the players than most men. She wanted to be part of the male part of our family and knew this was the way - so she reads everything she can so she is informed and knowledgeable about the sport.
10. How she loves politics like her father. She is also very well informed and she will have lively dicussions with her father about world and current events.
11, She has promised to come and visit me each June and help with the pageant.
Finally, she will make a wonderful mother. She has read a lot about mothering. However, she has so much love in her to give to Lincoln and other children that they are going to be very lucky children to come to the Devlin Family
THINGS I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT MICHELE
1. She turns off her cell phone. I have NEVER in my life done that, even at church it is on vibrate.
2. She is leaving to follow her husband to grad school. While I am happy for this decision they have made, it also makes me so sad to lose my best friend. I think I'll get a dog to replace her!!!