Happy Friday y'all! I feel like this was a really long week. Chris started morning sectionals this week along with the afternoon sectionals. So three mornings a week, he starts teaching at 7:00 am and ends at 5:00 pm. That's 12 hours of teaching.
He's wiped.
Bless his heart. Teaching is just exhausting. Teenagers are exhausting. Pregnant wives with the plague are exhausting.
Oh, I'm kidding.
It was just a cold.
But I felt like I might die.
So this week, I decided to find that one big thing I was grateful for each day of the week. Let me know if you like it. But not if you don't. Only positive spoken here.
Saturday - grateful I can do my grocery shopping now. The first trimester made the whole food thing hard. Even in the mornings. So Saturday morning, I hit both my grocery stores, stocked up on what I needed for the week's menu I made and came home in about 90 minutes. Then I actually cooked every night this week. Whoo-hoo for feeding my family!
Sunday - grateful Chris and I are on the same page with our church search. And that Aubrey Kate seems to be enjoying herself. She just walks right in to the new class and plays like she's been there a million times. Both those things are making this process a little easier. So far.
Monday - very grateful Chris takes such good care of me. I pretty much felt like death. Day three of the plague and it was awful. Raw throat makes it hard to really enjoy reading a book six times in a row. He came home after teaching 12 hours and took over so I could go to bed. He rocks.
Tuesday - odd one here but I am grateful for conference calls while I commute. I get meetings done without having to be in the office with the added benefit of getting paid for driving. Don't worry, there are several other folks on the call so I'm doing a whole lot of listening and not so much talking. Aubrey Kate asking for Elmo or May-may every 18 seconds is more distracting.
Wednesday - very, very grateful for stop and go traffic. It rained a whole heck of a lot Tuesday through Wednesday morning. Rain was coming down in buckets on the way to work. I left early because I knew it would be bad. Still took me almost two hours. Thankfully, I only saw one wreck and it wasn't that bad. I just think everyone was driving cautiously. Which was fine by me. I'll take slow and safe, thank you very much.
Thursday - grateful Aubrey Kate got a good nap in the car after school. We had two days where she was off her schedule and it did not make for the happiest of afternoons. I had plenty of work to do while we sat in the driveway. She woke up in a great mood and I didn't have to work that night. Winning.
Friday - today I am grateful for our mommy/daughter day of the week. This morning we went to Hobby Lobby, then to the fancy park (really, it's unreal) and ended with lunch at Souper Salad. That place is a huge risk for me but I needed a cheap salad. Needed. Kids under 2 eat free which is really a bad gamble on their part. Pumpkin ate two plates of food and a bowl full of grapes. We were there an hour and a half. During which she ate. The entire time. The gamble paid off for me (no glutenation!) but not for them. They lost.
Hope y'all had a good week. Really hope you were able to take some time to thank God and praise Him for the blessings in your life. Even the weird ones. He is the author of every minute of our lives and for that alone, I am so thank full. I would completely ruin it all. In a matter of minutes, undoubtedly.
Much love!
He's wiped.
Bless his heart. Teaching is just exhausting. Teenagers are exhausting. Pregnant wives with the plague are exhausting.
Oh, I'm kidding.
It was just a cold.
But I felt like I might die.
So this week, I decided to find that one big thing I was grateful for each day of the week. Let me know if you like it. But not if you don't. Only positive spoken here.
Saturday - grateful I can do my grocery shopping now. The first trimester made the whole food thing hard. Even in the mornings. So Saturday morning, I hit both my grocery stores, stocked up on what I needed for the week's menu I made and came home in about 90 minutes. Then I actually cooked every night this week. Whoo-hoo for feeding my family!
Sunday - grateful Chris and I are on the same page with our church search. And that Aubrey Kate seems to be enjoying herself. She just walks right in to the new class and plays like she's been there a million times. Both those things are making this process a little easier. So far.
Monday - very grateful Chris takes such good care of me. I pretty much felt like death. Day three of the plague and it was awful. Raw throat makes it hard to really enjoy reading a book six times in a row. He came home after teaching 12 hours and took over so I could go to bed. He rocks.
Tuesday - odd one here but I am grateful for conference calls while I commute. I get meetings done without having to be in the office with the added benefit of getting paid for driving. Don't worry, there are several other folks on the call so I'm doing a whole lot of listening and not so much talking. Aubrey Kate asking for Elmo or May-may every 18 seconds is more distracting.
Wednesday - very, very grateful for stop and go traffic. It rained a whole heck of a lot Tuesday through Wednesday morning. Rain was coming down in buckets on the way to work. I left early because I knew it would be bad. Still took me almost two hours. Thankfully, I only saw one wreck and it wasn't that bad. I just think everyone was driving cautiously. Which was fine by me. I'll take slow and safe, thank you very much.
Thursday - grateful Aubrey Kate got a good nap in the car after school. We had two days where she was off her schedule and it did not make for the happiest of afternoons. I had plenty of work to do while we sat in the driveway. She woke up in a great mood and I didn't have to work that night. Winning.
Friday - today I am grateful for our mommy/daughter day of the week. This morning we went to Hobby Lobby, then to the fancy park (really, it's unreal) and ended with lunch at Souper Salad. That place is a huge risk for me but I needed a cheap salad. Needed. Kids under 2 eat free which is really a bad gamble on their part. Pumpkin ate two plates of food and a bowl full of grapes. We were there an hour and a half. During which she ate. The entire time. The gamble paid off for me (no glutenation!) but not for them. They lost.
Hope y'all had a good week. Really hope you were able to take some time to thank God and praise Him for the blessings in your life. Even the weird ones. He is the author of every minute of our lives and for that alone, I am so thank full. I would completely ruin it all. In a matter of minutes, undoubtedly.
Much love!
Happy Friday! I'm thankful IT IS FRIDAY! I'm thankful for your updates. I hope you are feeling better.
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Love these!
ReplyDeleteAnd I just have to say that even with your tiredness/sickness (so sorry to hear you were sick:() you sound like SuperMama to me! I can't believe all you have going on, with a toddler and being preggo to boot, and somehow you manage to keep everything balanced;) Your hubby is a blessed man!
Hope your weekend is so fun and that this coming week you have lots to be grateful for.