Lots for which to be tHaNkFuL :)

Wednesday - World Thinking Day was fun, and I was proud of our troop. I am VERY thankful for having such a great co-leader. I didn't feel too swell, so it was nice that I had another adult to help and take the lead!

Thursday - I had my hair appointment, and I love the color and having my eyebrows waxed :) I just feel like a new woman every time I leave my hair stylist!

Friday - We had a fun day! I dressed in GREEN and was quite the shamrock loving lady!! We had a yummy green read and feed. AND, I was REALLY excited and thankful for the 35--yes THIRTY-FIVE--kids who came to the Fall Cheer intro meeting!!!

Saturday - Thankful that I went to the doctor! And, she gave me heavy duty antibiotics (2000mg a day!), so hopefully I will kick the sinus infection AND bronchitis before my trip to Vegas!!

Sunday - Going for my first motorcycle ride of 2012! It was so lovely :) I freaking ADORE driving my motorcycle!!!

Monday - My massage today :)

CRAZY headache today

So, today I woke up at 3 a.m. hacking up a lung and sweating with a fever :( I ended up staying home, one of the FEW days I stay home sick ever. (probably why I have so much sick leave accrued!)

ANYHOOT--later in the afternoon, when I wasn't spiking a fever anymore, and my coughing was controlled, I had a MONSTER headache, that I thought MIGHT go into a nasty migraine. I am THANKFUL FOR EXCEDRIN MIGRAINE and that it kicked that headache to the curb.

I don't know if this is TOM headache, or being sick, maybe sinus-related? SIGH. NO MORE SICKY...PLEASE! I gotta heal so that I am healthy when I go to Vegas, since I have so much planned for there!!!

Monday!

I am thankful for the fact that we only have 10 more school Mondays until SUMMER!!! How cool is that??!! And, this is going to be one of THE best summers, I have ever experienced!

Thanks!!

Thursday- I am thankful for surprises. I can't tell the surprise right now, I will share it in a couple of weeks, but BOY OH BOY...I LOVE SURPRISES!!!!

Friday- Fridays that our little one comes home are SO MUCH FUN! We had Papa Murphy's, played around and just enjoyed each other!

Saturday- Thankful for good times with friends :) We went to the Oyster and Prime Rib Feed at the Elks, which I am starting to feel like a regular at the Elks, since we have been going to all of their feeds lately!! It was good food, but even better, I love being there with our good friends! I love how we all get along, which I think is unique :)

Sunday - Today we headed up to Oroville for a special Girl Scout celebration of 100 years! It was fun, and I love that my co-leader and I get along so well :) We drove up together, and we planned out what we are going to do for World Thinking Day which is this next Wednesday!!

A backlog of thanks

Friday- Read Across America Day!!!!!!!!!!! This was so much fun :) I totally dressed all wild and crazy, and I wore two tutus! That's right, not one, but two!!! WAHOO :) So, cutest thing, I had a little kid at the elementary school ask me if I was Dr. Seuss's wife, which I took as a COMPLETE compliment :)) I took the NHS kids down to the elementary school, and we had so much fun, reading with the kids, eating lunch with the kids, playing at recess with the kids (watching my big high school kids jump rope and play dodge ball was a BLAST!), and how proud my step-daughter is of me :))) That means so much! I can't wait until the day when she is the big kid going with me down to the little kids :))

Saturday - I am so greatful for my honey. We had such an awesome evening Friday night. I love that he is my best friend, and that we have so much fun together.

Sunday - I did some writing. I am thankful for my gift of creativity. I love writing, and I go in bouts of not writing much. I am not talking about my blogging, but rather the novel I am working on, and some poetry.

Monday - I love my Kindle Fire :) Love it! I love all of my applications!! I had thought about buying a new laptop or an i-pad, but I LOVE my Kindle Fire, which does everything I want and need! I never thought I would enjoy reading books on it, as much as I do!! I just finished a book in less than a week.

Tuesday - I signed up my little one for softball--my favorite sport of all-time. This will be her second year, and I can't wait for her to play this year :))

Wednesday- FOR SURE EASY...Our induction ceremony for National Honor Society was tonight. I love this night :) It is such an honor to work with these kids, and see how proud their parents are for them!!

Thursday

I am thankful for a family dinner out! My little one asked if we could eat out, which we sincerely hardly ever do...

So we went out to El Portal, which is a new Mexican restauarant in our town, which seems to have a plethora of Mexican restaurants. Well, let me tell ya...FABULOUS dinner!! Great food :) Fun place.

We had a fun dinner :)))) I love it when something happens spontaneous, and it's PERFECT!!

Love it! THANKFUL!

Leap Day!

I am thankful for Leap Day! It's just a fun and quirky day with a genuine necessity for our world. I had fun teaching the kiddos about it today; they were all fascinated :)))

Perspective.

Today- Tuesday
I am thankful for EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE! Today Frieda Soury, a Holocaust survivor, came to my 8th grade classes. She is an incredible woman. She is so inspiring, humble, and full of hope and understanding of this world. I am so honored to have met Frieda, and this is the second time she came to my class. I feel so fortunate. I am so proud that my kiddos met her! Their questions were so honest and thoughtful. YUP, days like these, I LOVE BEING A TEACHER!!! I laughed. I cried. My heart felt the love in the room. WOW!

I did ask her what she was most thankful for, and she said: "My health. I don't think I am doing too bad for 83. I am thankful to be alive, and sometimes I feel sad because I don't know why I am. I am happy that I have had a good life with good family." Later she also told the kids that she has always appreciated clean sheets, warm water, food, and a bed, since she did live without for so long.

FOREVER thankful, I am.

Monday

Monday - I am thankful for my Girl Scout troop, and my co-leader! We had such a great meeting on Monday! It's such a rewarding gig :)) I appreciate that I get the chance to work with these people!

Thanks!

I recently have read TWO articles about people who are more positive and the direct corelation to their weight loss efforts! It does make sense :)

I am thankful! I am thankful that I have found it easy to find thanks for the great things in my life.

Saturday
We had our third annual Healthy Heart Event, and it was WELL attended! And, we had TONS of fun :)) And, an added benefit was that I rocked the calorie burn, and am feeling the sore muscles BIG time today!! It's such an honor to be a part of something so positive :))))

Sunday
That I made a really good decision today! I was irritated with a few things that TRULY are out of my control, and not anything I can change. However, I could easily have made a bad decision like eating something, anything I could find in the house. BUT instead, I went right to the gym, and I ended up having one of THE best runs I have ever had!!! I guess that anger can fuel into something REALLY positive that benefits me in the long run :) And, I really felt better after my run, so I am thankful for making a positive choice and for feeling what can happen when I choose to take of myself!!

Family FUN :)

So,I went and did my workout after school, and my little one plays on her Kindle Fire, and she is totally into watching "indoor tennis" also known to us as racquetball. When I was done working out, I took her in and taught her how to play. She had a blast, which meant I had a blast :)) We did laugh a lot. At the end she told me, "That's an awesome workout! So much fun!!" And, she even told me that she wants to have her birthday party there now. We will see. GREAT way to start my weekend off :))))

THANKS!

Thursday -
That I have a really good friend who I can talk to about health :) He is so knowledgable, and so inspiring, and I can talk to him any day!! YEAH!! We had a great talk this morning about protein, carbs, how many calories I shouldbe eating, etc.

Wednesday
I am excited for my cheer season this next year, and we are going to go to a different cheer camp this year at...Great Wolf Lodge!!!! HOW EXCITING!!!!! I realize that my summer is going to be a blast!! SO MANY FUN TRIPS AHEAD FOR ME!!!!

One of the greatest inventions ever: Antibiotics!

SO THANKFUL that my antibiotics are kicking in and that the infection in my tooth is going away! I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER TONIGHT than even this morning!!

Taking care of me, thankful :)

My thankfuls for today are two things related to taking care of myself!
1) I had a massage :) I needed it. MAN, it was so nice, and boy I could feel my sore muscles from lifting.
2) I also talked to my endodontist today, and he thinks I still have an infection in my tooth, and now that it has had a root canal and rubber filled in above it, it has nowhere to go :( SO, he gave me some heavy duty antibiotics, and he hopes it will clear it up, and that I won't have to have surgery in the end. SO, I am thankful for the medicine, and hopeful it will do its job!

Saturday!!

I had a great Saturday :)) Lots accomplished and the best part was a birthday party at Breadline!! We are close to the Little Family, and so we are included any many family events, and last night we celebrated Laini and Grammie Marilyn's birthdays!! SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!! We bought Laini a tool set--being practical since she is going off to live on her own in a few months!! And, we bought her a 24-pack of toliet paper!!! TEE HEE--inside joke :) But, it was pretty funny carrying that into the Breadline!!! LOL And, I also got her a super cool water bottle!!

I am thankful for the incredible people I have in my life. LOVE.

VERY THANKFUL!

I am very thankful that I had a half-day today at school, and that this is a three-day weekend! BOY, oh boy! I really REALLY need this time!!!! I am looking forward to working out these next couple of days, and I am going to try a new workout class tomorrow, so long as I feel OK. And, I have a few little things I would like to focus on, too.

Thursday??? How can it be already Thursday?

So, today as I was driving down to Wenatchee for a root canal, I was thinking about all sorts of things!

FIRST--I was remembering when I commuted DAILY (Monday through Friday) from Leavenworth to Ellensburg to go to college to earn my HS English teaching degree. Those were crazy times! Then on the weekends, I worked up on Stevens Pass, so I was on one of the two major passes in our state seven days a week!! So, today I was feeling thankful that I don't have to commute to work or school or anything. I know how old that gets, and it feels like such a time waster. I did always listen to books on tape, and one full year, I organized an INCREDIBLE car pool, so that was cool because on days I wasn't driving I did lots of homework! BUT, overall--those years of driving, I DO NOT MISS! I then was thinking about when Ricky used to commute over to Twisp every day for work(M-F), and how I am so APPRECIATIVE he doesn't do that anymore either!! MAN...and to top it off, at least back in those days, we were not paying what we pay now for gas!!! I don't envy ANYONE who has a commute!

SECOND--I was thinking about how when Rick and I first started dating, and I was still living in Leavenworth, I would stay the weekend up here, and the boys and I would get up on Monday morning and drive back home before school! That seems so long ago!!! It was 8 years ago...sheesh, time flies when you are dancing your butt off! I feel very thankful that I found a teaching job up here, and that I took the chance to move here. I have such a good life. GOOD FAMILY. GOOD FRIENDS. GOOD JOB. GOOD.

V-Day thanks and the day after!

TODAY- WEDNESDAY
I feel most thankful for the changes I have made in my life. I have done some momentous things lately.
1) Taking care of me!
2) Choosing to DELETE someone from my life, who is filled with venomously consuming HATRED. Talk about liberty!!! (see #1)
3) Observing behavior in others that I don't want in myself, and have been working hard to not have, and so seeing it in others truly highlights WHY I don't want it in my life at all and why I want to keep working on keeping it at bay!! (see #1)
4) Trying new things :)


SO--for Valentine's Day, I felt lots of reasons to be thankful :)))

I wore a tutu to school!
My step-daughter was so proud of her creative Valentines--she chose them off of Pinterest, and all I did was buy the supplies and supervise!
We had a family V-Day dinner! It was scrumptious and just awesome! Then we played some Wii--all of us :)
AND, I am really proud of Ricky for thinking about what I would want...things related to being healthy and NOT chocolate or flowers (which I don't want on V-Day!!) or a stuffed animal, but instead two packages of expensive workout socks (he knows I hesitate to buy them), and a TURBO blender! I have a great smoothie maker, that makes individual smoothies, but I wanted a blender like they have at the gym :)

2 things 2day :)

I am thankful that the weather WAS SO BEAUTIFUL today :)) I feel like Spring is in the air!!! I was in Chelan for a meeting, and OH MY GOODNESS...sooo beautiful. BRIGHT blue sky :D

And, tonight we are, according to my 9 year-old step-daughter, celebrating Valentine's Eve :)) TOO CUTE! She's totally into it this year. She has always liked it, but this year is something else! First, she told me that she has a Valentine this year--a sweet little boy. So, we have a special outfit for tomorrow, and tonight we are doing her hair in rollers, and we painted her fingers really cute--pink with a silver French manicure.

SO fun and pretty day :))

THANKFUL, indeed!

Thursday- Reading--I love to read! I love it when my students give me ideas of books to read. I VORACIOUSLY consumed The Hunger Games trilogy in a week! Now, I am on book two of the Maze Runner series!! HOLY SMOKES! I am so glad I have a Kindle Fire!!! ***completely, separate comment, I did download ALL of my music from my i-pod onto my Kindle Fire, how cool is that??*** Anyhow, I love that when I finished the first book, I could download the second book right away, and start reading, and not have to wait to get to the library or store!! AWESOME series!!!!

Friday - MY SPINNING class...OH MY GAWSH! It was such a blast!!! And, such cool people in the class :))))) Then it was 80s day, and I loved it when one of my little MS students said, "Oh my gawsh, you look like a high schooler!" It was just a great day! After school we went and sold Girl Scout cookies, which our little one has a goal of selling 200 boxes, and she sold 70 in just two hours :) I am so appreciative of the people who support her! And, boy what a difference in her...she used to be so shy! Then we went home and had our Family Friday Night!!! LOVE PLAYING board games with her :) Yahtzee is our favorite!

Saturday--I am thankful for friend time! We went to the crab feed with our best friends, and we had SOOOOO much fun :)) The food was fabulous, and the friendship is SPECTACULAR :)) We made some exciting summer travel plans!

TRULY the highlight of my night: After watching THE cutest couple dancing all night--the gentleman is 77. They stopped at our table to say hi to Ricky, and I said, "You guys are awesome!" Clyde said, "Well, when you have been dancing with your partner as long as we have been, you just dance right." I LOVE IT!!!! What a sweetheart :))

Sunday--I am thankful for family time! I love all of the time we spend together :) Today we went to the movie, and we just always have so much fun together! Then when we came home we finished our valentines which was a blast! My favorite part of that...when my step-daughter said, "I'm pretty sure these will be the cutest valentines at school!"