August 29, 2014

Feel Good Friday

There’s a lot of crap in the world, so let’s talk about things that made us feel good this week…because it’s Friday – and that’s reason enough. It’s easy enough to focus on the things that aren’t perfect or on drama, but it’s not worth it. So my feel good friday….

I (finally) planted stuff in our salad table last week and there are already lots of greens coming up. It helped that we got a lot of rain for the first few days. I felt like such a gardener failure this year, with our raised bed only producing veggies that volunteered (either from our compost or from last year’s planting), so the salad table makes me feel better about it.

I had a Norwex party and I was nervous about it because I didn’t want it to be boring or for people to feel like they had to buy anything. It was really interesting (and convincing) though, and people actually wanted to buy stuff. I kept reminding them that they didn’t have to buy anything. Home parties always make you feel like you should buy stuff. I just really like the Norwex stuff that I’ve already bought and can’t wait to get more.

I haven’t been getting road-ragey even thought traffic has been TERRIBLE now that OSU classes (and all schools) are in session. I listen to blogs in the car using SoundGecko and it’s awesome because normally I’m so behind on the blogs I like to read.

We left Jenson with our neighbor for a little over an hour so we could sub on her husband’s volleyball team. She’s due in November (with a boy!) and has done lots of babysitting, so we weren’t worried that she couldn’t handle him, but we were really glad that it went so well. They just hung out and played. It was an iffy time of night for him (butting right up to his bedtime), so it could have gone either way. It’s the first time we’ve left him with someone other than one of our family members (plus his sitter and Braxton’s mom, who are like family).

My co-worker reiterated how much he likes a new pair of pants that I have (he’s gay, so it’s not inappropriate). He thought I was wearing them one day, and was disappointed when he realized they weren’t those ones. Then it got weird because he said he thought to himself recently that he wished he looked like me – or that his pants looked as good as mine – or something like that. It was a nice sentiment (and I knew what he meant), but I still told him it just got weird.

I’ve gone to the gym a few times this week. That’s a big difference compared to other weeks! I think I’ve done a plank every day, even when I don’t go to the gym.

Family naptime. Jenson has been falling asleep when he nurses after I get home from work, and we all end up napping in the bed for a bit. Extra baby snuggles is always good.

Lo got flowers for me – just because. That’s always nice.

And him.