1. the sunrise. that i am lucky enough to wake up each morning and watch the sun rise as i drive to work.
2. patience. i have taken the extra breaths that i needed this week. i have not yelled. i have calmly, repeatedly asked "can you please show me how we..." and over and over recited "oh, i just love the way that you..." these phrases come out in my sleep.
3. re-connections. the internet is an amazing tool and how fun it has been to find and reconnect with old friends from high school. i have wondered what they were up to in this big, wide world. we even found todd's freshman prom date. MMmmmMMMmmm...
4. fridays, professional development, long lunches, three day week-ends.
5. never having struggled when i learned to read. we heard from a man today who learned to read at age 47. he moved us to tears. he read a poem to us. we gave him a standing ovation. it was a powerful moment to witness as a teacher.
6. cats. we have two new barn cats living downstairs. they are skittish and i have just begun to coax them from their crates, but meet Minnie (i call her minnie mae) and Callie (i call her callie co).
7. todd's trains. todd bought himself a train set this week. read more here. its fun to watch and dream up plans for little villages and lots of tracks.
8. bravery. i am proud of myself this week. i went outside my comfort zone and invited two new couples over for dinner this week-end. out of my shell, i faced that fear of rejection that rears its ugly head now and again.
9. commitment. so far, so good. lots of sharon mann, lots of gilad, lots of exercise, lots of repetitions, lots of burning.
10. my biggest fan. mollie chose to sit with me for the entirety of my work-out today. watching, licking my sweat, moving just a bit when she got in my way. she is my biggest fan.
4 comments:
great post! i'm so glad you are hanging in there with those little ones.
i think 100 work-outs by April 1st is a fabulous idea. I'll cheer you on and hope you'll continue to do the same for me.:)
Have a wonderful dinner party, I'm sure it will be great.
Awesome post.
I'll second the reconecting with old friends comment, its been very cool indeed.
I'm sure the dinner party will go great. Have fun!
Hey, sorry I have been out of commission for several weeks.... my computer fried and i got a new one, but am using a new system.... took me until now to get to my old bookmarks with your journal. I'll slowly read back to see what's going on in your world. Happy belated Holidays!
what a great post! so positive.
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