Jen and I got to experience a new and exciting first this weekend.


First weekend home with a sick baby.

It sucked.

To say the least.

While Jackson wasn't suffering major illness, he was snotty, drooly, whiney, teary, and clingy all weekend. I know what it's like to take care of somebody, for an extended period of time, but not like this.

When I had to take care of Jen during her sickness she could tell me what hurt and I could do my best to help. Jackson couldn't. All he could do was cry and push away whatever we put in front of him to feed him or for him to play with. You just feel helpless for the little guy because you don't want him to be hurting like he is but you have no idea what to do.

It took a big toll on Jen, because she had to deal with it for 2 days longer than I did. Kudos to her. She's a trooper.

Also in an interesting turn, Bugger (my new name for him because I picked a lot of his boogers this weekend. i mispronounced it once and a nickname was born ) has become a daddy's boy.

At every turn he wanted me and me only. It kinda drove me nuts because I wasn't used to it and I had things that I thought were more important to do.

He quickly let me know otherwise. ;)

From washing the dishes to cleaning my room to putting up clothes there was a yank on my leg hairs letting me know that somebody was there and wanted to be picked up.

I respected my wife a lot more after this weekend for knowing what she puts up with everyday.

It also made me love the stinker more. Never has he just come up to me and cuddled for an hour without squirming or running off or ripping my eyelashes out. He just genuinely wanted to sit with me and be held.

The two of them had me at their mercy on saturday afternoon as there were several good games on and Bugger had finally fallen asleep on my chest and jen had the remote across the room.


sigh...

all in all it was a good time. we skipped church for the first time in forever and watched movies and made bacon and eggs.

back on the slow boat of christianity for us.

I have discovered the new posts name


You may read it and it's inaugural post

here ------> http://wetalkinboutpracticeyo.blogspot.com/

Well, I haven't really blogged about real life in a while... because i've been super busy. Also Texas has gone 2 weeks without an arrest... this takes away a lot of my blogging fodder ;)

What's gone on lately for the Moores.

This last weekend my best friend from High School came in with his wife and stayed with us while they were visiting his family. Matt and Kristen Tonne are some of the best friends that my wife and I could ask for. They are sweet and godly people and every time I'm around them it's a blessing. I could not have asked for my best bud to have married a better girl. I love waking up early on weekends and cooking for Jen, and I got to do it this week for them as well and it was a good time had by all.

Jen recently came across an old friend of ours who we hadn't seen in church for a while. The last thing we knew she was dating a guy who was attending another church and upon not seeing her, we just figured she was attending church there still. 2 weeks ago she showed back up @ CHBC and Jen earnestly asked how she was doing... not just casually. And got an earful! The girl had been walking in some things unglorifying to the Lord and had hit bottom before showing back up to church. Jen agreed to start meeting with her and after a week of several people's prayer and effort this girl gave into the Lord's calling and surrendered her life to the Lord early this last sunday morning. I know that's been exciting for her and she's doing her best to be a good friend and mentor to her. She's also doing a great job raising my future linebacker. He's healthy and happy. I know she loves what she does and it makes me happy to be in a position to let her do that?

Jackson is doing .... well what can I say.... the kid rocks. He's such a happy baby and every day when I get home from work Jen says "who was that?" and i hear a coo followed by some rapid pitter patter of feet and hands hitting the tile to get around that corner. Whenever he sees where I am he stops smiles and high tails it to me and burrows his head into my chest when I pick him up. It's one of the greatest feelings in the world I could ever have. We're not walking by ourselves yet... but we can crawl with the best of them ;)

Everything's been pretty busy for both of us lately (which would explain why I've only blogged about article stuff.) I really think I'm going to start a separate blog for sports stuff. Why? This one needs to be about my family and what the Lord is doing... and while I'm absolutely passionate about sports... they need to be separate. I have really been thinking about why I love college sports so much (specifically college football) and if I obsess too much about it. The answer is "Yes. I do obsess about it too much." But I wouldn't be a fan I wasn't. But I've also given thought to what I could do if I could do anything in the world... and to be honest... if I could do anything in the world I would be a College football writer . While I'm not going to drop my job and pursue that as a career, I want to start taking it seriously as well as cutting off my sports blogging from my personal and spiritual life. It'll kick off sometime next week. I'm taking submissions for the title. It turns out "Every Day should be Saturday" is already taken by a Florida Gator blogger. I thought I was original. crap. So something catchy and sporting will be appreciated.


Well that's it for now. I hope the Lord finds you all well.