So this New Year's resolution was not supposed to be a monthly thing but that is what it has become... Good intentions, I promise. Things are back to what feels like normal around here. The kids are both doing soccer and basketball and Hunter is also doing boxing. That leaves no evening unplanned. Some evenings are spent speeding from one practice to the next. They love it this way and to me it feels, strangely... normal. We are back to spending our Saturdays watching soccer games and going to Kid's Night Out (which means date night for the parents) and Sundays relaxing and watching football. This normal feels good. So without further ado...
Sept 1. He tries to ignite a passion for reading in the boys by setting an example.
Sept 2. We can communicate without speaking.
Sept 3. He can handle things on the
homefront if I'm not around.
Sept 4. He is getting into the new soccer team even though the circumstances are not ideal.
Sept 5. He was patient with the new kids at soccer all weekend long and it paid off.
Sept 6. He still loves me even with a red nose, constant sneezing and allergy sniffles.
Sept 7. He is on a roll with cleaning out inventory.
Sept 8. He appreciates when I work hard so he doesn't have to.
Sept 9. He is appreciative of his daily wake-up.
Sept 10. He almost never says no to a sleepover.
Sept 11. He realizes the importance of Date Night.
Sept 12. He realizes the importance of Football.
Sept 13. He appreciates and is supportive of my cost-cutting.
Sept 14. He is a great teacher but can accept some criticisms.
Sept 15. He pushes the kids to do better.
Sept 16. He is flexible when he needs to be.
Sept 17. He humors me.
Sept 18. He puts in a lot of effort to be supportive of the boys equally.
Sept 19. He cheers on my victories right along with me.
Sept 20. He plans for the future.
Sept 21. He can successfully ignore my compulsive need to redecorate.
Sept 22. He makes room for everyone on the bed to watch TV together.
Sept 23. Sometimes we can read each other's thoughts.
Sept 24. Watching him with my niece, giving her his undivided attention, makes my heart melt.
Sept 25. When the kids are gone, we can just relax at home.
Sept 26. He is happy to spend Sunday watching football, just the two of us.
Sept 27. I love how he does something sweet but still expects me to notice.
Sept 28. He was understanding of my bad mood.
Sept 29. He played Hunter in Dance Dance and lost and that was
ok.
Sept 30. He fights for my time.
So if you look very close at the photo above you will see that in my freshly painted window sill are small little footprints. Not we do not have any animals at the house right now. So this had me wondering and saying aloud... Are You Kidding Me?? We apparently have some kind of small rodent (raccoon, etc) that has decided to move in while we are not there. And if that is not bad enough it decided to walk on my freshly painted window sills because this is not the only one... I have several sets of prints.
And this is our first FINISHED room!! Yeah! This is the breakfast nook and isn't that color awesome! I just love it. I am not sure who had the brilliant idea to paint the whole house... yes, all 6500 sq ft but that person was CRAZY! I am tired of painting. But then I look at the FINISHED room and I am happy so I continue to paint and paint and ... well, you get the idea. By the end of the week I think we will have several finished rooms.
The boys went out with us today and Brian and I had a surprise for them. We found this fusball table at a resale shop yesterday and so we got it and took it to the house. We told them they had to go out with us today to do some work but this is all they did all day (except play soccer over the pool where the goalie had to be on the diving board. Needless to say, they were fishing the ball out of the pool with the net most of the time...) And anyone that knows Brian knows that he could not even keep a secret for 24 hrs... He told the boys last night once we got home :) It has been a good week and I feel like by the end of this week we will see some PROGRESS!
