Last night we made the baskets for PTO Pizza Bingo Silent Auction. It was a lot of fun and we got most of them done by 7:30 when I left to go back to being Mommy. The Little Man lost another tooth last night as well, he is growing up so fast!
I am really focusing on healthful living for the last several weeks. It may seem like a no-brainer, but its been a struggle. I am even trying to convince the little man to go on this journey with me. He is very active, and he does move around a lot. A lot. I just want him to make the healthy choices. He's skinny now, but I don't want him to lay the foundation to get fat. I know how hard it is to be a chunky kid-from just the physicality of it to the name calling and bullying. I'm almost 40 and its something that stays with you. I've been fat and thin in my life, and I can tell you that the way you are treated when you're thin is much different than when you're fat. Its not blatant, but its there. I know that when you're heavy, you are limited in your choices of what to wear, and some of the things you can do. People look at what you're eating and in some cases, you can almost hear their judgements.
But I digress...the whole healthful living thing isn't about losing weight or going on a diet. I need to make changes to that are sustainable, and are possible for a lifetime. There's something about modeling good behavior for my son.
Today is Tuesday, and I am blessedly free today. Its a beautiful feeling. I do have a ton of housework to catch up on-laundry, tidying up, all sorts of other little things. Making stir fry chicken for dinner, with egg rolls (suprise honey!) and homemade fried rice.
I've been trying to keep up with my scrapping, but I've fallen behind again. (gee what else is new?)I need to order pictures and start getting layouts done. I've been bringing them to work to do over lunch, but I haven't been doing them. Its like a quiet rebellion. I was talking with a friend/fellow scrapper who can be quite insightful and she mentioned that maybe I am just not happy with how I'm doing things right now. Hmmm....there could be a kernal of truth there. What is it that I am not happy about? The fact that I suffer from scrap envy. I look at other people's layouts and wish that I could do one like that. I just don't seem to have the skill or talent...but I keep plugging along.
My main focus is telling the story of my family and what we are doing at that moment in time. I want the little man to have great childhood memories of the everyday.
Speaking of the little man, allergies have woken him up. Back to being Dr. Mommy!
Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity. Margaret D. Nadauld
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