November 3 2014

Today I have been reminded how very grateful I am for cars! Automobiles! Modes of transportation.
We get so comfortable with what we have, that sometimes the only way we remember how very blessed and spoiled we are, is when something in the way we live everyday is disrupted.
Today I was reminded how quickly the ordinary can sometimes be taken away, and become even more desirable than it was before.

Let me explain just a little bit. Ford came home telling us that something had gone wrong with his car. He grabbed his dad and out they went to look and see what they could find the problem might be.
Long story short, he has lost a belt and it needs to go to the shop for repairing. I am glad it wasn't something major, especially since Ford hasn't even paid the car off yet! Not that it is ever a good time for a car to break, but when you're still paying for it, it seems to suck a little more, than if it were already paid for.

Anyway....it just got me thinking about, how blessed we are with all the modern conveniences that make our lives so much easier, and how much harder it would be to do some of the things we do without them. Especially now that it is getting cold! I can't imagine having to get places by walking or open wagon, COVERED wagon for that matter! We are just so blessed! In more ways than just cars, but that is the one I thought sof especially today.

November 2 2014

Today I am thankful for the simplicity of sleeping late, waking slowly, having some me time (exercising) and then getting leisurely ready for the day. Then spending the rest of this chilly day with the love of my life. We really didn't do much which makes it all the more enjoyable!
   We visited with some family then on home to hot homemade soup! Yum! GOOD day!

November 1 2014

Let the thankful month begin.
Today I am thankful for something so simple, you most of the time wouldn't even think twice about it.
I am thankful for the random chance to run into someone at a store or place of business that you haven't seen or heard from in forever. The chance to stand blocking the isle and chatting for probably an hour, when it only seems like just a few minutes?
To catch up on some big things and some not so big things, and just remember why you liked talking with these people so much in the first place!
We had that opportunity today and it was GREAT! I wish it happened far more frequently than it does! I miss people face to face, and I need to work on that as much as anyone else, but it sure is nice when we do get the chance to be face to face and don't have to just run, because we are SO busy! :)

This game called life

Let me just start by saying that somewhere in the distant past, I swore I was NEVER going to have children....Today has proven once again as to WHY I never should have had kids!
I SUCK AT THIS! I have no patience and I feel like I don't have enough empathy on top of the fact that I suck at it!
Not to mention, the fact that even though they are "of age" they ("they" being used more or less loosely)  still think that Mom and Dad should or are responsible for them and all things related....
And all of a sudden things I swore I would never be held responsible for, I am all of a sudden footing the bill for. All because I have a not so bad kid...a kid that is not on drugs....now all of a sudden I am suppose to continue to support them, and all of their "not so great" choices, because...well... "it's not "THAT" big of a deal to ME. " REALLY!!!! When did I all of a sudden turn into a foot rug?!
I can see now, better, how it happens SO often! But, let me also tell you RIGHT NOW, that this easy train has reached the END of it's track! I always swore, once I had kids, I would not be that parent that got taken advantage of, and yet...here I am feeling (more than slightly) totally taken  advantage of. But NO MORE! If you don't like the rules of "this" house then find some where else to live, but do it quickly! Because this easy street has CLOSED!
And honestly I could give two ^%#)! less if you like my opinion or not! This is MY home, NOT yours!

Great day!

Today was a GREAT day!!! I finally talked Chet into going for a walk/hike with me!

 It is not something he likes to do. In fact it is something he will try to get out of alt all cost. But today, he finally broke down and went with me!

  I had surgery on Monday. and haven't been able to exercise like I had been, and I feel terrible about it. It must have shown when I asked him to go with me today, because though he never said YES...he still got ready and took me out!
I love days like today, when it is just he and I spending time talking and visiting and getting closer and sharing more things. Which is kind of hard sometimes, because we share everything I can think of every day. Each new day though, is a day born with new thoughts, so each day, there are new things to share. I hope that part of us NEVER grows old or tired!

Thanks Babe for a great day! Let's always remember the great days, they will make the less than great days easier to deal with. And maybe even get us through some pretty crappy ones! I love you! Now and forever!

Wet weekend to proud Mom minute...

Well, it's official. I have finally run a race in the rain! I ran Tulip Festival 5K. I was thinking when we signed up for it..."no problem....it will be close to the end of April, the weather should be getting nice." That's what I thought....and in all honesty, the week leading up to the race was beautiful! I thought for sure it would be great! HA! Mother nature is such a prankster! I am glad though that the wind that was blowing the evening before the storm was gone before the race. Rain is much better than wind any day. I didn't set any personal record for speed this time, but I did better than I expected to do, and that in its self is a personal success! When we finished, we were soaked!

Chet came with us to the race and in my heart and mind I brought along Ford and my Dad. Ford because he challenges me to work harder than I do when I am on my own, (he says it's because his legs are longer...) and my Dad because he was at the finish of the last race I did before this one, and I could hear him ask how I was... I smiled in the rain and said out loud..."I'm tired Daddy, but I'm good" And I was good. Wet and cold but good! :)

  Fast forward through this wet and soggy weekend to today. Monday is and has been for a year or more now, workout with Ford day. At some point Megan gradually started joining us and now on most Monday's we workout together. A few weeks ago, Megan started working out with her long time friend later in the evening than Ford and I, but we are all still working out on Monday :) Today, Shaylee (Megan's friend) asked for some instruction on how to do a couple of the Exercise moves, I didn't hear her at first, so Ford jumped right in and offered her what he and I have learned. In fact even though we had already done our workout, he stayed with them and did almost another half workout to show her the things she asked about. Then spent time answering a few other questions she had. Then I heard him give all the credit to the things he knows to me for teaching and showing him...Made me smile!

Then what really made me smile was when he came up to talk to me about what had been going on and he thanked me again for teaching him and told me he knows now why I like to help people learn this stuff! It is fun and feels good to help someone else begin their own journey! So all in all, between Megan recruiting friends to "come get healthy" with her, and Ford offering instruction, I am having a very proud Mom minute!
Not bad for a Monday! ;)

Ready...

Well, so I am thinking that although the weather has not been too bad, it hasn't been all that great!
So just let it be known, that I am totally ready for it to be spring already! I m ready to take my exercising back outdoors. I am ready to leave the coats when I go out. I am totally ready to mow the lawn again, and to start thinking about what I might want or not want to plant in my garden this year.
I am READY! I should be okay just letting the time tick by, since I know that there isn't anything I will ever be able to do to speed it up anyway, but still I am in essence tapping my foot impatiently! Wishing that spring would be here already. Okay, I even wish summer was here, but I am not THAT impatient! (most of the time)
I am ready to go camping!!! To stay out late because I am off for the summer! To go on a super long bike ride all by myself (unless someone else would like to go)!
I am ready!
Instead though I will sit here waiting and thinking and planning....since I can't really hurry it along anyway!

Please hurry spring! I am ready!