Showing posts with label book club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book club. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Good Things

After all that heaviness I thought I should spread around some goodness.
Since my last post (or because of it, and all of your help) 
I feel like I've had a break though. 
 I feel like I've literally broken through to somewhere better.  I am better and everything else seems better too.
Sooo here are some good things.

Book Club
One of the top five best things for my soul. (I think it's number two after being spiritual and before being in nature,  good art and breathing in babies/my husband (cause he is the man your man could smell like.))
Books, friends, great food, laughter and a good amount of silliness (that would put fear in to any poor husband who happens to be around).  
Who needs to drink to have fun?  Not us!

Baking Bread
Made some with my boys yesterday and enjoyed the experience. (I typically leave baking till the late hours of the evening to avoid doing it with them,  I am not one of those moms that loves to bake with her kids, it would make me pull out my hair if my hands weren't so much messier than usual from baking with kids!)
But this was good!
Fun and tasty.
They made really interesting shapes and then we had warm buns with honey and hot chocolate for lunch.
Mmmmm.


Going to the Park.
Hiking through the snow and finding animal tracks.
Sunshine on my face.

Really Playing with my Kids.



Snuggling with my Honey.
He has this new shirt that feels so cozy and safe.
It has snaps that are just like the ones on my Dads shirts when I was a girl.
I love it, and him even more.


Job Charts.
I made some for the kids and they love it!
Every time they do a job they get...wait for it...
a check mark.
When they have five then they get a sticker.
I know, exciting hey?
I made one for me too. It only has five things on it.  
Read scriptures
Dishes
1 load of laundry
(that means folded and put away)
Engage with the kids
Dance
I'm pretty confident doing this every day will make me feel way better and freed to be able to do way more fun and interesting things as well as giving me some sense of accomplishment every day.

So there are some good and wonderful things that I am so happy about and grateful for.  Life has all kinds of good things in it and I just have to let my self see them and make them happen. 


Thursday, November 25, 2010

A Busy Day

My day was very busy but I loved it.  I just canceled the cable (we had the really amazing deal for 6 months promotion.)  Even though I really really miss it I think it's one of the top five best things I could do for our family.  I've started making lists again, and getting so many things done!  Here's my list for today.

To do today: 


Play school-check 


clean my room-check


vaccume and dust said room-check


wash bedding and remake bed-check


lots of dishes-check (but there's still lots, oh how I dream of the day when we have a dishwasher)


make fancy bread for book club-check


stew for supper-check


tomorrow's supper in slow cooker-check


bathe kids while cleaning bathroom-check


book club-double check


prepare veggies for tomorrow-I decided my company can help me with it when we get home tomorrow evening more time to visit that way


lay out kids clothes-they're not so much layed out as in the dryer but they are clean and I know where they are. 


Not bad hey?  It's like my mind is free again.  I can think and plan, make lists, have ideas. It's wonderful!


Also, need a cure for the winter blues?  Get a couple of friends, a book you'd like to read and some yummy book related food and you've got yourselves a party!  Stay out late enough and you'll be telling all your best non book related stories and laughing the ugly laugh (you know the one where your face goes all funny shaped, you can't see and you're wheezing and crying, yes that one (it's so Healthy!))


Watch for our next book choice and read along with us.