good friends that call you at 10:30 pm because they know how bored (and bummed out?) you are and come over to play games. great friends that call other friends so we'll have 6 which, just, makes games that much more fun. best, though, is the the husband that lets me sleep in until 11 because we stayed up too late...Additional Happies: Summit's favorite song, the song that then, thus, made us happy … [Read more...]
That God is for me, not against me
August 22, 2008 by · 2 Comments
if you were anything like me when you were a kid, you always seemed unappreciative around Christmas time or your birthday.I'd open, like my dream gift, and just look at in in awe. I'd be reminded to say "thank you" like I was ungrateful for my gift or something, but spoken words were never my forte. My sister would be screaming her thanks and freaking out in ecstasy and I'd be trying to mimic her … [Read more...]
Thankful
July 10, 2008 by · 3 Comments
I wonder how many people blog for sanity? I know I do, somehow putting my feelings out there for anyone to read is freeing! The strangeness of it strikes me sometimes...I was in Wal-Mart today and as I was walking down the condiment and coffee aisle I started to cry. I wasn't like this before I had children, now it's like my body wants to make up for years of being deprived in the emotional … [Read more...]
My Little Happy Things 3
April 24, 2008 by · 2 Comments
-the flowers that I procured from my nice neighbor are still beautiful mysteriously after almost 6 days.-My fever is gone. No more of the "freezing hot" and "burning cold" sensations that my 8-year-old self named thus.-my lawn is mowed.-there is a Dora the Explorer that is her in China or something that was oddly interesting when I had a fever. I learned how to say "slipper", "Grandfather" and … [Read more...]