MERCY!!!!

It is amazing what kind of influence other people can have on a person. My friend Heidi always shares a good influence for me everytime I am with her. The last time we visited her two things made a great impression and for some of you it might seem like these things are silly but she helped me realize I don't do enough fun little things with my kids. I dont' feel too old yet and I guess I should be more willing to not act so old all the time too. One thing we did at their house we will never forget there were about 11 of us and she doesn't have a huge house but we played hide-n-go seek it was so fun and at first I know Steve and I were like "for real, can't we just watch the kids play" needless to say we like to be lazy. No way could we just watch everyone had to participate and we had to hide about 9 times so every could have a turn to find and we all had so much fun, it didn't cost anything and I bet the kids at least mine will remember that fun afternoon for a long time. The other thing that she did was turned on some music turned it up and danced around the living room with the kids. On my birthday Sierra was playing some music and the kids wanted to tear down the streamers from my party the night before so they tore them all down and then we danced and twirled streamers and wrapped them on heads and just had a good ole time. The song Heidi danced to was Mercy by Duffy and I had never heard the song and wasn't sure I liked it at first but now we listen to it all the time and love it and it is a great song to jam to so for all of you that need to bring a little youth back to your life I will try to update my playlist and add that song then turn up the computer volume, get off your bum and DANCE!!!!! This can be a great workout, after about three or four times of the song I was definetly sweating. Thanks Heidi and Darren for being such great friends and good influences on our family we couldn't ask for better friends.