Randomness

Random thoughts that have been in/through my head in the last 24 hours.

- It was an ABSOLUTE blessing to work from home yesterday. I accomplished a great deal in regards to work AND I was able to do a few house tasks on my lunch hour that made the evening more enjoyable. I found myself in a more pleasant emotional/mental state in regards to my patience with Jeremiah and my feel for the whole evening. To top it off I wrote my boss a thank you note this morning telling her what a difference it made in my week to have the flexibility.

- Speaking of flexibility, I'm really excited that John will now have a little more flexibility in his work schedule, possibly allowing him to stay with us until Monday morning. I'm also really proud of him for even being willing to ask about it! I'm not sure I would have predicted his willingness to do this in the past.

- I had an interesting epiphany while I was scrubbing my kitchen floor on Monday night. I look in the dirty bowl of water when I was done and felt a great sense of accomplishment because I had cleaned so much gunk up, but at the same time I was disappointed at the fact that I had allowed it to get that dirty to begin with. Then, I had an interesting thought wondering if this is what God feels like with each of us. He is disappointed that we get so dirty with sin but yet his love can wash it all away! I guess I've been doing some deep thinking this week.

- On the theme of deep thinking, I've been trying to think about my life as a journey. This has led to a variety of other thoughts, like how I know I get annoyed if we are traveling and don't have a plan or something goes wrong. There is certain to be more to come in relation to all of this but for now "Journey" if my new mindset.

- Now comes my dillema for the week. I'm getting tired of eating the same things over and over! Does anyone have any great tricks for cooking for 1.5 people and keeping it easy? For example, hamburger comes as 1 lb. and many of the seasonings that go in it are for 1 lb. That's hard to downsize. Any great ideas out there?

The way the weekend looked

We had a great weekend! Because Thursday night was a late night for us, I opted to give Jeremiah the Friday night treat of a movie. We've never really done this and I thought he would probably be old enough to start making it a fun thing to do. JT arrived home a little after 8.

With no obligations for the weekend, we had decided to do something fun as a family on Saturday. Our original plan with 80 degrees forecasted was to go to the local forest preserve park for a picnic and playing. A morning thunderstorm sidelined that plan but I had a great time with my boys at a Children's Discovery Museum about 45 minutes from us. It was so nice to spend family time and feel like we were in a somewhat normal situation for just a few hours. We also enjoyed a walk, dinner together at home (that hasn't happened in a while), and to cap off our level of spontaneity, JT and I gave the cat a bath at 9:15 p.m. on Saturday. It was a spur of the moment decision, but again I have to say that I even enjoyed that because it seemed like something we would have done on any old Saturday night.

Sunday brought me some time for scrapbooking. It's been so long. In fact, I had not even printed pictures in a year. So, I ordered pics and also organized some in hopes of getting some pages put together soon. This was one of those many projects that was on the "When I'm Done with Class" list that was quickly replaced with the "When the house is ready for sale" list. We also played outside and took a few minutes to sit at our picnic table and all have ice cream together. Ahh spring!

It was wonderful......and then it came to a screeching halt at about 5:30 when John needed to prepare to leave. I think the Sunday night departure was worse having had such a great weekend. I tried to be happy to have had the time we did but I wanted just a little more. I wanted to curl up and watch a few Sunday night shows with my husband. I wanted normal. More on this later!