I was listening to a podcast on journaling the other day while I painted the sunroom, and it was talking about how one of the things that makes people give up on journaling is the feeling that they have to catch up, and that you can’t let that get to you—you just have to start from where you are now.
So here I am! Not catching up just starting from now.
Right now I’m at Nathan’s soccer game (the last one of the day, hurray!!) typing in my phone while my face is looking at Nathan, hence any typos.
Yesterday I got up at 5:30 and went for a delightfully therapeutic early run on our favorite route with my dear friend (who is likely moving in a few months noooooo). Then i went home and braided the girls’ hair and sent them off to school and fed the boys breakfast and showered and got the boys off to school and started laundry and cleaned bathrooms and then went off to Conner Prairie with Matty to meet some friends. Matty happily petted every sheep and stomped in every puddle while I had a great couple hours of friend time and then we headed home, both took a nap, welcomed the boys home from school, read stories, Nathan’s friend down the street came over, we had dinner, Neil and I went to the temple while Abigail babysat for us, and then Neil and i wound up the night finishing off the last of Nathan’s week-old ice cream cake while we caught up on Brooklyn 99.
Today was wedging in my run around 3 soccer games (my alarm went off at 6 to go run and i turned it off thanks to the pouring rain). Juliet’s game was cancelled after we got there (boo it was twenty minutes away!!) but at Nathan and Luke’s games we had decent weather and I had a fun time catching up with other parents on the sidelines. Tonight Abigail is babysitting foe some friends and Neil and I have to figure out what color we want for our floors...yikes, do we go light or dark???!!
In general things are really good. A couple weeks ago I was in the depression pit of despair again and everything was sooooo awful...and then voila, upping my dose made the world rosy and beautiful and bright again. I hate that my brain does this but man I’m grateful that it’s treatable.
Let’s see if i can upload a few pics from the last week or so...
Abigail and Luke after their birthday interviews
Neil measuring and thinking about our bathroom (there's a door and drywall up in that first opening now--took out the big cased opening!).
Matty before church, the first day I had my new phone camera and was having fun with portrait mode
blowing out candles--6 years old!
killing time waiting for kids somewhere...maybe dentist? we've had all the annual/biannual exams lately...
family room--finished painting the built-ins, doors, and windows oooh just love this room! floors getting redone at the end of the month!
brothers playing happily together during luke's soccer practice
a gorgeous rainy walk with Matthew--we looked for all our favorite flowers
chickens are getting bigger and bigger--this was a couple weeks ago and they are HUGE now!
Luke being silly in Primary...
Abigail turned 14! and it was Easter!
soccer superhero (with a hot chocolate mustache because it was COLD!)
helping stuff eggs for the ward Easter hunt--thankfully the kids were super into this because that was a lot of eggs!
juliet wandering around the backyard practicing violin
the temple one evening as we were driving home from youth activities
Isaac during Primary--love that cute smile
fuzzy-haired boys on the slide during soccer practice
this kid's personality on the soccer field is the BEST
finished painting these rocks this week--they used to be orange and brown (now I have to do the walls and ceiling).
Bailey boys cleaning up at the Pinewood Derby--Isaac took 1st overall (second year in a row) and Luke took first in his class and third overall.
Matthew doing his very favorite thing in the world--hammering!
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