Metaphors
PJ walked outside this morning into the brisk cold, looked all around at the freshly fallen several inches of snow and said, “It looks like the whole world is covered in vanilla ice cream.”
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I did not realize when we adopted this dog that I would have just as many stories, photos and as much money flying out of my pockets as I do with my kids.
This past Saturday at the neighborhood sledding party, Lucy just could not get out of the way of the old fashioned tobogan, the metal and wood variety.
So she got shaved down and all stitched up at the vet ER. That pink cast/bandage makes her feel pretty. The cone, not so much.
Erika
I just realized today that Erika is the one person, next to my kids, who I photograph the most.
And since today is her birthday, I would like to show you a few of my favorites. It was a hard decision, there are so many.
Happy 36th birthday beautiful girl!
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I usually don’t do New Year’s resolutions, I’m not a believer in them. If I don’t stick to them, that just makes me a failure at my own game, why would I do that? Everyone knows I like to win, so setting myself up for failure is plain’ol silly.
Seeing that I have found myself sluggish, unmotivated and angry at the end of 08, I went hole (or whole) hog into resolution crazytown.
My 09 resolution list:
- Only drink 2 cups of coffee in the morning (this one is going well)
- No drive through coffee in the afternoon-good for the environment and myself (this too is going well so far, but just give it time)
- Lift weights 3 times a week (I can’t believe this one is even on my list, I have been lifting since I was in college, even while pregnant and somehow it fell off the to do list in the past year, what the hell)
- Go to Yoga class once a week (this is to help me find my calm center…wherever that is and NO I have not gone this week)
- Be less angry (Yoga was suppose to help me with this, deep breathing too, but there are just moments where I find myself in a tail spin, gritting my teeth until my jaw hurts and wondering how to keep four kids that are spread out like a paint splatter and a dog all together while skating at the park in -7 below windchill with my toes and fingers tingling with pain from the cold, can you feel the anger?)
- Only drink on the weekends (I made it Monday night, there is nothing more to say)
- To JUDGE (this seems to be the only resolution that is really working for me, it even has its own sound affect when I do judge something, that of course comes after me saying very loudly JUDGEMENT 09!
So I am going to say this, I HATE resolutions, people who do resolutions are idiots (JUDGEMENT 09!), they never work, you always fail…hold on, I need to get my fourth cup of coffee.
How is that for an angry, over caffeinated, hateful, judgmental morning? Off to the drive through Starbucks for utter success today, oh and I better put out my wine glass for tonight.
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Today we went in to see my dad’s Oncologist and hang out with him while he completed his 5th round of Chemo.
On the 19th of December, he went in to the hospital so they could run a battery of tests (blood, bone scan and CT scan) to see if the Chemo was working.
The good news of 09 is that there are no new caner lesions on his bones and that it has not spread to any internal organs.
After watching him go through the worst month of Chemo to date, it was nice to see a smile on his (and my mom’s) face and a little ray of hope shine through the air.
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