Ten days of 10 thoughts on 10 subjects…
…..Things I Can Do Without. Forever.
1. cooking rice.
2. burning cooked rice.
3. sweeping things under the rug.
4. being lied to.
5. current gas prices.
6. not being listened to.
7. mayonaise.
8. laundry.
9. listening to Firework.
10. pollen.
Ten days of 10 thoughts on 10 subjects…
…ME.
1. I am behind. On everything. My to do list. My laundry. My project list. My cleaning. You get the idea.
2. I am shrinking. I have lost 14 pounds so far. 5,678,405 more to go. It’s been slow, but sure. The scale is creeping in the right direction.
3. I am baby smitten. I am savoring each milestone big and small, sloppy wet kiss, chubby cheek, and early morning feeding. Five months have already past. Knowing this is my last little one is a teensy tiny bit sad.
4. I am sleepy. The kind of tired where you want to sit in the corner and go fetal. The kind where you want your dentist apt to come so you can sleep in that comfy chair. The kind where you’ll take a nap anywhere. A N Y W H E R E.
5. I am happy. Down to the depths of my soul. I am happy.
6. I am grumpy. {This is beginning to sound like I am listing off drawfs.} Number 4 is fighting with number 5 and number 4 is winning. Pray for my sweet family.
7. I wish I had more faith. I question. I lack trust. Shame on me.
8. I want to make a difference. Some days I really wonder how to do that and if I am.
9. I am impatient.
10. I am blessed.
Ten days of 10 thoughts on 10 subjects…
…LIFE.
1. Live offensively, not defensively.
2. Leave your baggage by the side of the road. No matter what the cost.
3. There is nothing quite as precious as the first breaths.
4. Mine has been turned quite upside down in the last 2 years. I didn’t see it coming.
5. People can sure mess with you. My Jesus is bigger.
6. Forgiveness to those who don’t ask for it is the toughest.
7. “Make God your audience not people.”
8. Live a good life.
9. Dream Bigger.
10. The good days. The bad days. They all fit together and become beautiful.
Ten days of 10 thoughts on 10 subjects…
…CONFESSION. Def. An admission or acknowledgment that one has done something that one is ashamed or embarrassed about.
1. I washed the same load of clothes 3 times this week before they made it to the drier mildew free.
2. I started my gym membership in tennis shoes that don’t fit me and ended the week with a blister the size of a silver dollar. Now I am hobbling around unable to walk well. Who does that?
3. I really want to dance all fancied up on a roof top in NYC under the stars to some fabulous old classics.
4. I love watching Tori and Dean. Home Sweet Hollywood.
5. I spent $25 at the Dollar Tree today. I Kinda find that ridiculous.
6. I have watched the Wedding Planner too many times to count. Yeah I heart J~lo. I’m serious.
7. I love Bubble Yum.
8. I didn’t think I would struggle with turning 40 this year, but truth is I am. I don’t feel 40 and I don’t want to be 40 and I don’t want to look 40 and I don’t think there is anything I can do about it.
9. You wouldn’t even believe how dirty my kitchen is.
1o. I dance in the car, sing in the car, dance and sing in the car, and have been known to pull over with the kids and have a street dance party should the right song present itself.
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Ten days of 10 thoughts on 10 subjects…
…ON GREAT BABY FINDS.
1. Best ever. So glad I own it!
2. One word for you. Sophie.
3. Laundry Monster.
4. Anything Zebra Print is fabulous. These are no exception.
5. So is anything cow print. We got our ours for half this price because it was last years model. It has the same cover, that’s all that matters, right?
6. Oldie but Goodie. A Must Have.
7. Fire Safe.
8. Some peace of mind.
9. These will last forever.
10. My baby laughs aloud.
Ten days of 10 thoughts on 10 subjects…
…ON THE GYM and my GLORIOUS NEW MEMBERSHIP THERE.
1. A place full of the possibility of great change.
2. I feel like I’m walking into Cheers because Mary, the dear sweet lady ,who works the early morning shift at the front counter says hello and goodbye to me everyday… calling me by my first name. That’s some good customer service. If she keeps being this nice I might have to break out and hug her daily.
3. Men should not wear spandex. No exceptions.
4. There are “RULES” posted on the wall. Number 11 states “There will be no loud or strange noises while using the equipment.” I can’t help but wonder what incident occurred to warrant this rule.
5. I think I just MIGHT have watched too much Biggest Loser in my day because sometimes in my head I have a phantom Jillian screaming at me.
6. I wish they would not allow the news on all the tv screens throughout the gym because while it may be informative, I find the news incredibly depressing and it ruins the little bubble that I want to live in while I am there.
7. One of the funniest episodes of friends ever…”I wanna quit the gym…~Chandler”.
8. The gal who signed me up told me that if I refer a friend, who signs up, that I will receive a 2 night 3 day vacation. No gimmicks. Uh huh…sure. Anyone wanna test this? I’ll take you on the “trip” with me.
9. This morning I discovered my stomach muscles are completely non existent. Perhaps that 10lb 6 oz baby I just gave birth to had something to do with this.
10. My gym has a hot tub. HA~LE~LU~JAH.
Ten days of 10 thoughts on 10 subjects…
…ON HOMESCHOOL.
1. If you would have told me four years ago that I would be homeschooling one day. I would have laughed at you.
2. Be prepared to live in your house. One piece of advice that I read before I began was that you are going to USE your house more than you ever thought possible. Made sense to me, after all it is called HOME SCHOOL. In preparation for my first year of homeschool, I was warned to clean like the queen herself was coming to stay. I didn’t. I am not sure that it would have mattered that much, even if I had. I went from rarely being home in my pre-homeschool days to being home almost all the time. We live in our house, love in our house, laugh in our house, and get it all kinds of dirty, broken, and destroyed by the end of an average day. We combat this with chore charts, meal charts, pick up times, and clean up times. For better or worse, it is a joint effort between the kids and my husband and I.
3. I used to search for the perfect system, curriculum, role model, or book to tell me how to homeschool correctly. It doesn’t exist. It’s up to you to search out the information, figure out what works best for you and your family and then roll with it. What works for one is not going to work for another. It’s going to take time.
4. “Homeschooling is a lot of work, if you do it right.”~says a homeschool mom I met one day. Reminds me of the amount of discipline required to enter and succeed in this world.
5. Learning should be FUN. Laugh daily.
6. Take advantage of all the resources around you. I have read articles about the rise of the number of homeschooling families in the last decade. Some articles suggest it is as high as 36%. There are so many great websites, blogs, families, books, groups, etc. Use it all up. Soak it all in. Ask questions, constantly.
7. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13
8. Study your children while teaching them.
9. There will be days it will make you cry. I promise. Keep going.
10. If I had a dollar for every time someone said “you homeschool? I could NEVER do that…” I would take all that money and I would buy myself Disneyland and homeschool right in the middle of Main Street U.S.A.
