Wednesday, September 7, 2016

The normal days

Lots of life has happened because lots of life ALWAYS happens.  I think these past few years has taught me to stop, breathe and continue to play.  Nothing wild and crazy went down over Labor Day.  Clearly -- Mike and I celebrated with our favorite pastime -- eating lots of food -- but overall things were pretty normal.  Here is a quick 5 things that make me happy today.

1. Bedtime routines
We have our routine down pretty tight and that is pretty awesome.  Boyscouts on Monday will throw a wrench in our week but besides that one night we usually have all boys down by 735.  It is pretty money.  

**To those who criticize our early bedtime -- we still have to wake the boys up for school every day.  They are still tired at times but over all they fall asleep easy (besides Cameron every now and then), they are well adjusted, and we only have rare occasions of tears at 620am.**

2. Kitty AND Moo
Jack added Kitty to his collection of stuffed animals that he loves.  I am not going to lie -- it makes my heart melt to have him have his "thing" so I encourage it.  Terrible, terrible parenting i know....

3. The HOG
We ordered half a hog from Lilly.  I am pretty sure that we over paid -- the meat came out to about 3.40/lb BUT from the tiny bit that I have eaten ....I am pretty excited.  Plus, it is still cheaper than the grocery store AND it is raised on a tiny little farm here...by my old co-worker.  Our freezer is officially filled with meat.  To the top.

4. Tuesday morning spin class
Did this make the list last week ... probably.  I have a full blown obsession with spin class.  I can't get there often but when I do I sweat my entire soul out.  I push myself to the absolute edge -- more than once.  I read an article recently about being comfortable with getting out of your comfort zone.  This is exactly what I do.  For the entire hour I am miserable and happy and completely out of my comfort zone.  I walk away satisfied, proud and soaking wet with sweat.  I walk away strong and feeling like I can conquer the world.

5.  The new job
It will still be a MONTH until I start the new gig.  Maybe that this month is the universe helping me to get my shit together before walking back into the inpatient world.  It will be an adjustment -- a HUGE adjustment.  I am excited, nervous and ready for this next step in my career. 

6. Baskets/Bags
This past weekend I sort of created a new system for our household.  I decided to keep every activity in one area of the house.  This seems like simple logic to most but it took me a few years to figure it out.  Life is insanely busy these days so I keep soccer in one basket, boy scouts is in a different basket, swimming stuff has it's own bag.....and that's it for now.  Regardless -- this makes life a lot simpler to keep track of on a day to day basis.  

Enjoy some random pictures from our every day lives.
The bus stop this morning.


Owen asked me to take a picture of his new molar growing in.  YIKES! It hurts me to even look at it.  Before I even took the picture I insisted he take pain meds.  

bahahahaha.  This picture cracks me up.  His face is pissed that I have the flash on and he is completely smushed between kitty and moo.  Last night I found him without his clothes on standing in his crib with a stuffed animal in each arm.  I put him in new pajamas and rocked him for a bit longer (and took this picture).  He was exhausted and not in the mood for camera shenanigans. 

We finally had a paint night!

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