10-8 Grateful

I am grateful today that I got to sleep in until 8:30!  It was glorious!

The kids were out of school for a Teacher Work Day and so we didn't walk...we slept!

The rest of the day has been a high stress blur, so sleeping in was essential!  Sleeping in and not exercising also makes me miss my walks.  I love that I miss them.

Tomorrow is a regular day, up early and definitely no sleeping in!

In other news:

• The weather is spectacular.
• My skin is so dry.
• My husband walks around saying things like "You should be grateful this stupid dog barks at people in our family and our friends, but not strangers."  Funny but wrong.  Astro barks at strangers too! 
• I have so much dang laundry to put away. Three giant baskets full.  No one has any clothes in their dresser I am sure.  It has been rifled through a million times as people dig around for certain things.  A mess.  I will have to refold it all.  Or maybe I will just cram it in a dresser and act like it was already wrinkled.
• Made soup this morning to take to school for the teachers.  I still have dishes in my sink from this morning.  They will still be there in the morning cause I am not doing them tonight.  
• Last week, I worked 57.5 hours.  That is ridiculous.  Seriously. I am part time. 
• I did not have Bible Study today since the kids were out of school.  My house looks like a tornado hit it since I didn't clean up for Bible Study.  Missed Bible Study and my clean downstairs.
• My boys are sitting here watching the Yankees/Orioles and talking about how they hate every Yankee that picks up a bat and approaches the plate. They are definitely Red Sox fans. 
• However, Harry is also very disgusted with the Red Sox Managerial candidates.   And also miffed that the Celtics lost to some Turkish team in a preseason basketball game. Sometimes it is better not to have all that information.  
• My skin is getting rashy again. It is pissing me off. 
• I was sporting some smaller jeans this weekend.  Thank you Connie! 
• Connie is having hip surgery on Wednesday this week.  Let's all say a prayer for a perfect surgery and a quick recovery!  

That is all.  I am going to bed. 

10-7 Grateful

Alright, alright...I know I am a day behind now, but I am going to catch up and do two posts in one day!

Sunday, October 7th....grateful for a house full of boys that are happy with waffles for dinner!  

Chip lost his game on Sunday, but they played them hard.  The game ended in a tie and had to go to some crazy Texas tie-breaker and the other team pulled ahead.  They played well but with those breezy temperatures I was happy to head to the house!   Grateful for heat too!

10-6 Grateful

I am supremely grateful for FLEECE!  Warm, cozy, toasty fleece!

Yesterday, I was blessed enough to be outside all the live long day! I got to watch Harry in a great cross country meet.  I think there were 3400 kids there from all over the area.  It was a big one!  The temperature was dropping all day.  Harry ran great (even though he never thinks so)!   It was a race PR for him.  He did 3.2 miles in 21 minutes and change!  OMG!  So proud of him!  Had just a great morning out there dashing all over that course watching those kiddos run with my friends.  It was fun!  AND I took about 600 pictures!  Can't wait to go through them and see if I got any good ones!

Next, it was time for baseball.  Chip's first baseball game was supposed to be at 4:00, but didn't start until 6:00.  The temperature continued to drop all afternoon.  By the time it ended about 8:00 p.m. my teeth were chattering.  I mean it was dang near COLD!  This was the first game for Chip's fall team and it was a good one!  It ended in a tie!  Chip played great!  Pitched awesome - fielded several balls - made some great catches - hit good!  It was a good showing by the Eagles!  And the other team had some awesome tunes blasting from a boom box!  Sweet!

We had a little time before his second game to go home and get more clothes.  I grabbed fleece and it was the best!

Second game was good right up to the last inning when it kind of got out of control and we lost, but we were contenders and that is really something we can live with.  Chip had another great game even battling the chilly, windy conditions!  It didn't end until almost 11:00 p.m.!  Had such an fun time out there with our baseball families.  We have a great group of parents and kids and that makes it enjoyable even when the conditions aren't so good.

Today, we are back in baseball mode!  First game at 10:00 and it is going to be 50 degrees! Can't wait!

Have an awesome, blessed day and I hope you have lots to be grateful for yourself!

10-5 Grateful

Today I am grateful for the following:

* It's Friday.  Enough said.

* My sweet Chip's big smile when I picked him up after school and he was busting to tell me he got a 100 on his spelling test and an unbelievable 105 on his Math test.  You know, we are genetically challenged in math, so a 105 is definitely something to celebrate!

* Harry remembering that I was not feeling good and the first thing he said when he walked in the door from school was "Hey Mom, how are you feeling?"  Sweet boy.

*  Feeling better.  Thank goodness.

Tomorrow we have a cross country meeting in the morning and two baseball games in the afternoon.  The weather is going to be spectacular. Nice and cool.  Can't wait!

Hopefully I will have some pictures to post in tomorrow's post!

Happy Weekend!

10-4 Grateful

Today I am grateful for good news from my skin biopsy.  The results showed that I had inflamed skin that had been scratched.  Doesn't seem like you needed to take a plug out of my arm to determine that, but I will take it. There were some complicated medical terms for inflamed and scratched, but the gist was that it was not much of anything.  The doctor said it was good news since it ruled out it being anything bad.

I am to continue on my high dose antihistamines until next week when I get my stitches out.   Rash feels much better, not itching at all.  I think it is definitely working.

That is good and I am grateful.

Very grateful.

You know, today has been kind of a crap day for me.  Work is crazy.  Super crazy.  I don't feel very good either.  Spending a few minutes thinking about what I am grateful for is an excellent exercise. It was easy and it made me feel better about my day.

Tomorrow is Friday!  So grateful for that too!

10-3 Grateful

Just slipping in under the wire....it is after 11 p.m. and after a whirlwind day of work, emergency fill in for Hubby to take Chip to baseball practice, dinner and more work I am heading to bed.

Today, I am grateful for...

• That crazy throw to first base not hitting my little Chipster in the head while he was getting a drink by the dugout. Just a matter of inches.  Man, that would have hurt.
• Coffee.  Lots and lots of coffee.
• Sleeping in till 6:30 in the morning!  Woo Hoo!  Can't wait!
• Chilly temperatures heading this way!
• Afternoons talking with my boys about their day.  It is the best.  Even when it is about how hard PreAP Physics is or getting a page by page summary of the latest Big Nate book.  

Now, I am going to go lay my grateful weary head on a super soft pillow and get some sleep!

Good night!

10-2 Grateful

I was going to write about what a long, long day this has been.  Work is killing me.  Seriously.  But you know I am doing the grateful thing. Today I am so grateful that I get to work from home.  I put in probably nine hours of work today, but because I am fortunate enough to work from home, I was here to see my kids off to school, run to the gym for my session, pick my little Chip up from school, hear about his day, greet Harry when he got home from school, make dinner and even do a couple of loads of laundry.  All while still at the office.  It is good to work from home. 

Working from home also means I don't actually pull anyone's hair out of their head.  A couple of times today, had I been in physical proximity, I may have just done some hair pulling.  Saved from myself. 

So today I am grateful not only for my job, but for the fact that I get to do it from the comfort of my own home, surrounded by the people I love.  I'm a lucky girl!