SP Day 4

Something positive, Day 4. This is a simple one. Today and tomorrow are Ben's days off this week. We've gotten to spend some time together as a family this evening eating, playing, watching TV, and just hanging out. It's been awesome.

SP Day 3

In the midst of our scheduling chaos one of the things we've begun to do is on nights when Ben works, if William has stayed at Mom's that day (which is most days) Ben meets me at Mom's so we can all have dinner together before Ben heads out to work. If we didn't do this, by the time I could pick up William and get home Ben would've already left for the evening.

Well, Ben has gotten off work late the last two mornings. Supposed to be done at 5:30. Yesterday morning it was 9am. This morning it was 8 am. So, needless to say, he's exhausted, and he's sick on top of it. (I know it sounds like I'm whining, but I promise I'm getting to the positive part.) He slept late today because if he didn't he would have been too tired to make it through the night tonight.

The good news is, that even though he slept late, he was still able to make it by Mom and Dad's to have some dinner, hug and kiss on William for a few minutes, and say "Hi" to me before he headed out to work. It wasn't a very long visit, but, it could have been no visit at all. So, I'm grateful for the few minutes we had.

As far as the rest of my day goes, I'm going to have to quote Scarlett O'Hara and just say "Tomorrow is another day."

SP Day 2

It's Monday. While generally not a positive thing, today, it is. No kiddos at school today, in service instead. Non-classroom teachers (such as myself) and instructional aides had first aid and cpr training. This is a great thing to have. Not to mention we worked from 8- 3:30 while classroom teachers had to work from 11am -6pm having parent conferences. We got a 2 hour lunch, they got 30 minutes. So, I got to go to lunch with my co-workers and feel like a big grown up.

Usually, we non-classroom types get the short end of the stick and today it was the other way around. What a great day to spend a Monday!

Now, after I conquer my painfully slow internet connection, I'm gonna play some Sims2 which I LOVE!

Big Shoes to Fill

Something Positive ~Day 1~

Today, amid lots of screaming and throwing fits (and we've got two weeks until we're officially in the "terrible twos"), William made me laugh.

He woke up from his nap just before lunch and I got him out of bed to change his diaper. I laid him down on the changing table and he starts complaining about "boo-grr-s" and wiping at his nose. So, I take a look and sure enough, big ole booger so I use my pinky finger and take care of the offending "boo-grr". I wiped it on to the baby wipe that I'd already gotten out to change his diaper and he about sends me to the floor laughing when he busts out and waves his little hand and says "Bye, bye boo-grr!"

While two year olds may be very challenging, they're darn funny. I think it's God's way of keeping us from killing them.

New Beginnings

Yes, I've started a new blog. Why? Well, I'd have to say I was unsucessful as a blogger in the past and I felt the need to break away from the old and start all over again. So, here is my new attempt at blogging. I'm going to start big. I'm going to attempt a 365.

My family has faced some rather large challenges recently with an unwilling and unexpected job change for my husband. He went from an 8-5 M-F office job to driving a truck hauling salt water for natural gas wells in the Barnett shale. He works 6 days on, 2 days off and works from 6pm to 6am. This has been a huge change and a difficult adjustment for our family.

So, my goal is to do a 365 of something positive that happened every day for the next 365 days. Hubby says that he's only going to do this job for one year, so if I can find something positive about every single day for the next year, that ought to be long enough to get through this job and on to something else. Hopefully, something better.

I know it's ambitious but I'm going to give it a shot. Wish me luck.