January 23, 2010

Mission Control ¹

by Wendy • 2010: Memory Making, featured, Headline, My Life As It Happens

Right now my life is revolving around our Texas Fallen Heroes Memorial Ride & Cook-Off.  I eat, sleep, and breath this fundraiser pretty much non-stop.  It’s getting pretty old around this house and with my friends and family.  I’m pretty sure John is ready to shove me into the hall closet and I get the evil eye from Catherine.  While I am loving the experience of planning the event, I am about ready to get this behind me.  I’m way too stressed about how it’s going to turn out and if it will turn out the way I see it in my head.  Needless to say, my blogging and picture taking has taken the back seat.

Today we decided to get out of the house and meet up with our church’s children’s group at NASA Johnson Space Center.  They have a wonderful kids area and a lot of super cool displays.  I thought it would be good to be around some adults that I didn’t feel the blatant desire to spill my guts about how I have no clue on barbecue cook-off rules or that I got burned on a motorcycle at burn camp and therefore I am expert at putting together a ride and big cooking shindig.  So for the most part I spent a few hours talking about other things like: how raising toddlers can tough yet they can be tremendously funny, whether mission control was ‘the mission control, the species of birds that our children were chasing around, church stuff, weather stuff, and recent foreign affairs.  I’m pretty sure all of my friends and family members that just read that last sentence are a bit jealous right now.  Anyway, it was nice to get out of house for a bit and to focus on something else.  We both had major colds, so that put a bit of a damper on us…well, on me.  Catherine can still go 200 miles an hour with a cold.  Me, not so much.  She had lots of fun playing with all of her friends.  I had fun talking to all of the parents that were talking about their jobs at NASA.  Hey…it wasn’t fire related issues.

As far as the Haiti disaster.  I have had a post or two swirling around my head about what it’s like to live and work at a disaster scene.  I will try to pound out one tomorrow.

Here are some pictures from today.