Cinqo de Mayo

What do the Latin people celebrate today? I think it is called Cinqo de Mayo.   I believe it is intended to commemorate a battle sometime in the past and it has grown to become a celebration of their heritage.

Wait, now that I think of it this is just a Mexican celebration and doesn’t involve other Spanish-speaking countries (are they called Latin countries or is that not proper? I ask because I was challenged on that recently so…). Regardless, it remains Cinqo de Mayo.

So happy Cinqo de Mayo to everyone, no matter where you come from.

It is Monday and it has been several days since I wrote anything here. Been busy with other things but no really legitimate excuse. My goal is to write every day but every other day would be okay.

I plan to get a lot done this week. There is outdoor work, what with the warming weather and all the havoc caused by the ugly winter we had. There is indoor work as always. There is my main project (and burgeoning company) that needs a lot of attention this week. There are the major indoor projects that have been on the list forever. I have to take the Explorer in for some warranty work this week. There are a lot of youth baseball things going on- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I have to get the boys out and shopping for Mother’s Day and I have to think about our anniversary and my wife’s birthday (a big one) coming up fast. I have to win my ongoing battles with the birds who continue to attack our windows.

In short, I have a busy week like so many people out there. I hope that it is a good week, a productive week, a week that I can look back at with some level of satisfaction when it is ended.

I haven’t talked much about politics lately but, never fear, I will. I will get back to it as there is a lot of stuff going on and I trust not much has changed in terms of the direction of our country since I last wrote about it. I still worry greatly about the future for us, for our kids.

We had a pretty nice weekend although there was some of the usual family drama- that’s a given. I wish sometimes that my boys might be a bit closer in some regards. It has to be tough to have a twin. If you are both boys or both girls then you likely have some or many of the same friends and that can become an issue of course. We experience a good bit of that friction and it is getting more pronounced and becoming more of a visible issue as these guys move into teenagerland. Nothing new there I suppose, just need to be calm and have a bunch of patience…!

Just got back from dropping the kids off at school. Amazing how the years slip by; seems just a short while ago they were at Joy Community and our lives were a good bit different than they are today. Not necessarily better or worse, but different.

I’m older now. Safe to say we likely all are older.

I hope that the coming week is a good one for all, a good one for us, a great one for us. And I hope that we have many, many years ahead of much of the same goodness, of much of the same greatness.

No matter how I may come across at times, I love life and I love my family and I love the chances I have been given.

I don’t plan to blow it either so please pray for me.

And I will indeed do the same for you my friends.