no way but onward, no day but today

Hey

So last night, I had some fun over at Ben's house and it was fun hanging out with my friends and we went to the park, did some ridiculous things as we ALWAYS do in public =P Though there weren't too many people out and it was only 5 too. The sun sets so quickly nowadays. Me and marco were talking about it and how you always feel like it's crazy late even when it's only like....5. Like right now I feel like it's 11 at night. It's only 7:30 =P But it's been a crazy weekend. Full of...things that are just exploding all over the place =P. My friends got me Taboo and Disney Sing It. I don't know what i'm going to do with Sing It =P They're a little crazy sometimes but I love them all =) I really didn't need presents though. I remember someone last night said something about being happy and I said I'd be happy if there was no presents and we just chilled together. And it's true. And i'm sure it is for a lot of people. Me and my mom were talking about it today, it's really hard to get presents for people after a while. Like we're getting matt a present now and I just hope we don't spend it ridiculously and we get him something REAL and USEFUL. Because lately I've really been feeling like God's given me the wealth i have to give to others. I'm trying to save up for a missions trip in...July? Eagle Bay =)

So last night when we were all home from our outings and whatnot, we all sat down and took a picture with the cake that we had bought. It was apparently the one with the most ACTUAL cake cause you know these days when you buy a cake you don't really buy cake, you buy icing and filling and all the cheaper mousse and it's like oversweetened and whatnot. Well it didn't have too much cake =P But it was alright. My mom said it's like the ONLY time we ever take family pictures. Well one of the rare moments =P Me and my sister have developed poses that don't require us to smile =P And so for the majority of the pictures we had weird poses. Like look at one another and point and make squished up faces =P It was fun. And then afterwards they sat us down and the 4 of us kind of talked officially about my mom's condition and the surgery. And it wasn't like it was sobering on my birthday to hear it but more like....I don't know...i valued sitting like that. The last time it was the 4 of us like that...the situation was less pleasant. And i realized that the situation we were in now had brought the family closer. My parents were getting along much better. I was starting to become more active. And my sister...well she's in Kingston but still.
And it's such a miracle that we even know about it because usually my mom's normal doctor wouldn't have allowed her to take a mammogram and she wouldn't have found out about it but she went to her doctor she hadn't seen in 6 years and it just happened that she let her take a mammogram. PTL =) indeed

My sister left tonight. I had planned to go shopping with her but my mom persuaded me not to go because she had a lab report to do. And I guess I wanted to talk to her about some stuff but we didn't the chance. I guess i'll see her in a couple weeks but it's always nice having her home. She's such an epic influence =P Well I should be off. Waking up early tomorrow.

p.requests:
- Trust in the Lord
- Mother
- Discipline for myself

-Chris