Friday

Well today was a good day.  So I'm exhausted. I'm grateful for lots of things today.

1. I'm grateful for cuddling with the kiddos.
2. I'm grateful for dancing time with Mark. He loves to dance and he is good at it.
3. I'm grateful for people being friendly.  I feel like even people I wouldn't expect to be friendly really try and I appreciate it. People can do amazing things.
4. I'm grateful to learn the hard way never to use your nice paintbrush with the epoxy counter top paint. Oh wait- that's not grateful that's whining.
5. I'm grateful to my friend Bree coming to help me clean out the bedroom to get the house ready for sale.  Danielle asked her to bring some more macaroni and cheese. Not going to lie- that's some amazing mac and cheese there.
6. I'm grateful Andrew is such a patient baby.  He's starting to teethe so he isn't sleeping quite as well but he's still just so mellow it amazes me.
7. I'm grateful for the internet.  I swear google knows everything. every thing.
8. Grateful for this idea: "Oh you left a voice message?  Why didn't you just tape a post it note to the door of the apartment I moved out of six years ago." nice.
9. Grateful that some handy tape healed my phone screen for a little while longer.
10. Grateful to be alive and well.

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Quiet.

these are my kiddos. they are on vacation in New Jersey right now. Danielle will probably never want to go home again.

My house is quiet right now. It has been quiet all week. My aunt is watching my kiddos this week and it is fantastic. I am surprised how peaceful and energized I feel- like I can take it again.
Maybe that is the prescription pain killer and antibiotics speaking. I've had a sinus infection on and off pretty much since I've lived here. A while ago I started getting headaches so bad I would sit on the couch and just let the kids run around all over and do whatever they wanted. It hurt so much. I finally went to the doctor and they gave me drugs. I made a cocktail of over the counter and prescription drugs to try to dull the pain in my head. I just wanted to drill a hole in my face to stop the feeling.
So John made me go to the doctor. Actually I think he made the appointment. Did I ever mention that I have a phobia against doctors? I do. a huge one. It takes all my energy not to cry when a doctor walks in the room. There is nothing worse than going to the doctor. No matter what it's bad news. If you are sick the bad news is that you are sick. If you aren't then you just wasted the doctor's time. I hate finding doctors I like. Plus I'm bossy. The doctor here told me we could try antibiotics again before I get a scan of my face or go to a specialist.
I just want my headache to go away. and with allergy medicine, antibiotics and pain killer, it mostly does.

anyway in good news I have worked out three days this week. and I haven't eaten any candy.

Mark loves to yell. and scream.

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