The Good:
Everything here is green and beautiful; rolling hills, lush vegetation, green grass
Planting strawberries for the first time
Jake’s cute smile and laugh. I love it! I am so in love with this kid. He is just so sweet and cuddly and patient. I just love him to pieces.
Abby saying cute little things and getting so excited over everything she sees. When we go for walks she likes to come home and tell Peter what we see, “I taw a bunny robbit!” She says it with these big eyes and deep little voice. So cute!
Emily enjoying books and loving to tell jokes. Also, she likes to tell me great little facts, like last night, “Mom, do we live near a beach?” Me: “Nope.” Emily: “It’s a good thing because then baby sea turtles might see our lights on and follow our lights to our house instead of following the moon to the ocean.” Yep, that would be one of the hazards of living near a beach.
Going for walks
Breyer’s chocolate brownie ice cream
A Mary Higgins Clark murder mystery novel
Barbequed hamburgers
Friends that call or send an email to make sure I'm still alive
Pete’s call schedule for next year
Enjoying my kids
Kids going to bed
Emily’s dance recital and her looking so cute in her costume
The Bad:
Wanting to do more things with the house than I have money to
The dandelions that, if left undisturbed, grow to be at least 4 feet tall. No kidding. And I’ve got a few that are already off to a good start this season.
I worked in my yard Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, and when I looked at it Sunday, I couldn’t even tell that I’d done anything to it. It would take me days to get it under control with the amount of humidity and rain we have here.
Spit up, laundry, crying in the night, my girls out growing their shoes too fast
Poop. On Jake’s clothes. On my clothes. Barely missed the couch and got all over the blanket instead.
Saturday call
Missing family
Knowing that the deer and squirrels will eat the strawberries that I just planted
The Ugly:
Seeing Peter after working 15 hours, then spending 7 grueling hours in the OR before losing the patient, trying to sleep 2 hours in the call room, then getting up and working 13 more hours. He looked terrible, poor guy.
Cramming 2 car seats and a booster seat in the back of my Saturn SL1
My wardrobe
My bathroom bathtub tile that I want to replace (see #1 under “The Bad”)
Me with 3 kids at church
My lack of patience at the end of a long day
I had cookie dough for lunch yesterday
Running through the parking lot to my car with my three kids during a terrible storm, tornado sirens blaring, dark as night, crashing thunder, lightening, crazy rain and wind.
Awesome. J
9 comments:
I love this post, Heather! However, I disagree that cookie dough for lunch is an Ugly - it should totally go in your Good list! :)
I can so relate. I had chocolate chip banana bread for dinner.... Yuck, Pete' schedule sounds grueling for both of you and the weather is scary! Good luck!
Oh my gosh I loved reading this list of yours! We have so much in common. I ate chocolate chip cookie dough (without the chocolate chips) for lunch yesterday, what a coincidence. And my garden is getting eaten by something, I don't know what. But I did see a skunk in my backyard once...
I wish there were no "ugly" - at least there are lots of "good"!
um, I'm with Dominoe! Cookie dough for lunch helps with Ugly #1-8 it also is good for Bad #1-10 and Good #1-20. (thanks for the tip about the beach. Phew!
Hang in there. The ugly and the bad will eventually take care of themselves. Besides who ever said cookie dough wasn't good for you (besides all those health nuts out there)? We just had eclairs and cupcakes (yes, everyone had both) as a snack.
I still think that money should grow on trees but then again, I would have to plant a money tree and would have to have money to buy it and an actual non-gravel yard to plant it in!
ps how in the world do you fit all the seats in your saturn? That in itself is a miracle for sure!
pps I miss you
Oh how I love this post! You are so great! The best part about this is that I know if I could just find a way to get up there, we would spend the entire afternoon laughing together about everything! You are so much fun and POSITIVE! Loves to you! I'm so sorry about the tornado siren rush to the car. NOT FUN! Oh, and I'm REALLY sorry about 3 kids in church alone. I can relate to the 3 kids...just not the alone part...yet.
Just keep looking at your good list, and remember how precious your kids are. That sounds endlessly obnoxious when you frazzled and missing your husband but there's good in everything.
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