Happy Thanksgiving!

  

Yesterday was a vacation day for me in order to catch up on some things. The most difficult thing about working away from home is keeping up with my home! It was beautiful crisp November day and it even snowed just a tiny bit to put me in the Thanksgiving spirit!

I took my son to DMV to get his permit and he passed his exam!

I had time in between dropping him back off to school and picking up my youngest so I did a little shopping and found a cute throw rug for the kitchen marked down to $5. I made a lasagna for dinner and picked a beautiful arrangement of dried flowers from my yard to brighten up the kitchen.

The best part of my day was when each one of my older children came home for the start of Thanksgiving vacation. There is no greater feeling of contentment then being at home to greet them. I work long hard hours and I am so grateful for my job and the work that I do. I love that I can get dressed up every day and I love working with people, but I love being a mom to these amazing kids!

 

 
I really didn’t want to do my workout today. It’s dark, it’s early, it’s cold.  I kept thinking of the results that I will see next week and how far I’ve come.

I got it done, another day complete!

They Grow Up So Fast.. They Really Do

   

I have officially crossed the bridge to the other side of “they grow up so fast”.

I remember parents who had older children sympathetically laugh when they would tell me”to hang in there” or “they grow up in the blink of an eye”.

Nope. They don’t. At least not until they go to kindergarten.  Or maybe it’s Junior High.  And your oldest child grows the slowest.

I hate when people  tell you this when you’re experiencing those tearful trips to the grocery store when you’re most defiant child puts his hand out of the cart in the pickle aisle and you literally catch jars just before they break all over the floor.  Or when he licks the handle on the Coke Cooler in Wal-Mart because it’s shaped like Coke bottle.