Monday Ramble #1 (Last Weekend)

Here's a breakdown of the past weekend by numbers:

21 - stickers it took Raegan to earn her trip to the zoo
9 - people who went on the zoo trip... 5 adults, and Jax still managed to run into a fake campsite

9 - chigger bites on my feet and legs... plus one on my finger and one on my FACE. Ew.
0 - chigger bites the kids got. Yay!
20 - packs of fruit snacks consumed in two days
1 - ugly llama fed by four brave kids at the zoo

2 - plastic swimming pools bought to entertain the kids

20 (or so) - smoke bombs set off to make the kids happy
1 - number of times Lacey tried to light more than one smoke bomb at a time
3 - different parks played at over the course of three days

4 - amazing, beautiful, high-energy, loud, fun kids... who are going to have a well-documented summer/year if the past weekend was any indication ...

Thankful Tuesday #2

Today... I'm thankful for ...

A great weekend with my best friend... her family... and our other good friends. Just having fun.

As always, my gorgeous and amazing kids.

That I developed a love for reading at an early age. I love books. :)

The grandma who taught me to read when I was little.

That work has slowed down, calmed down, our office is organized... even though the slowness makes me nervous! Oh, and that we have real internet at the office now! I never fully appreciated it until after trying to run four laptops off a Mifi for a week.

Being appreciated by people who matter to me.

People who truly care about other people.

Thankful Tuesday #1

In an effort to kick-start this blog and give it some sort of direction, I'm going to try to match up each day of the week (probably four-ish days/week) with a certain type of post. I've got the Thursday Rant down. And Fabulous Friday. Tuesdays are going to be my "thanksgiving" day - a list of things I'm thankful for that particular day. The rest you'll just have to anxiously await. :)

So today, in no particular order, I am thankful for...
* Two beautiful, healthy, smart, funny kids.
* People who still love me when I'm definitely NOT being lovable. Especially when they're not required to.
* That we got a printer/copier/scanner at work, even though it doesn't work yet.
* That I wasn't left for dead by the printer/copier/scanner delivery men when I let them in the old office to see if the old copier was there for them to take. (It wasn't, in case you're curious.)
* Raegan's BFF Anna and her mom/my good friend, Sherry.
* That our office is finally starting to come together. My amazing staff, who have taken the transition and new-office-craziness and my disconnect from work due to those things in stride. And a boss who makes sharing an office tolerable. I won't say good, because we're only one day in, but my attitude about it has definitely improved.