So, I've been looking forward to "falling back" and getting an extra hour of sleep since school started. For my boys, if it's dark when they're supposed to go to bed, they put up less of a fight. And by less, I mean marginally, and even then...not really. Anyway, I was so pumped about sleeping in this morning. That was stupid. At 7:30, the sunlight was streaming in my window and both boys were jumping on my bed. I growled for an hour, then gave in and got up.
Because I was exhausted and the victim of a rude awakening by my darling children, I was a total grouch. As we were walking through the parking lot, towards children's church to drop B off, and we had stopped for the fifth time so someone could tie their shoe, I growled, "Thank God we're going to church this morning, 'cause I sure do need God today." They both looked at me, knowingly, then (in a not so quiet stage whisper) I hear, "I think Mom needs God everyday." Awesome. I'm glad we're all on the same page.
I'm an emotional-ish person. Yeah, newsflash... I love how there are always video montages of new baptisms and people sharing their new found faith with others. It never fails to make me tear up a little bit, and today it was even more touching. There was a whole family who, one right after the other, were baptised, and came up out of the water just grinning with happiness. You could literally see the joy oozing out of their pores. Usually, I try to nonchalantly wipe my eye, but today I couldn't. It was almost full-fledged tears...and I wasn't the only one. The lady in front of me was bawling, and her husband had wet cheeks too. It was such an amazing video. It will stay with me for a long time.
After what seemed like 6 hours of N blogging for HIS homework (it was closer to two hours), I dragged them out of the house and to Kid Kountry again. Remember my whole vow to exercise every single day for the month of October and November? Um, yeah...that didn't go so well. It started off solid, but I kind of fell apart. SO, I decided to restart it. Today. While they ran around and caused a commotion, I mean played football. On the playground. Correction, the PACKED playground. They played, and I walked around the little path surrounding the park for 30 minutes. THEN, we hit the open fields for some real football throwing and I hit the path around the pond for another 20 minutes. It was a slower pace than what I used to do regularly, but I still did 3 miles and it felt good to get back into the swing of things.
While I have some free time, I intend to use it wisely and start a workout regimen again. Are there any particular things that work best for you? Motivators, quick workouts, etc? I've thought about hitting the gym after the boys get on the bus, but maybe Pilates would be a better "wake-up" of sorts. I'm not sure, but I know that I don't like how things are right now.
Oh! I'm also counting down the days until I get to go hang out with my dad for the weekend. This trip will be solo, followed by a trip with the boys the next weekend for Thanksgiving. This is, hands down, my favorite time of year. I can't believe it's here already!!! Have a great week, y'all!
Aubs
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