Graces, #17

I really need to do this today. Because the dark cloud found me again this afternoon and for a minute there I thought I was going to dismantle something small. Like an exterior wall.



Somehow managing to completely blow out of the water my new goals for both book reading and blogging. Goal A is Finish a Book a Month for the Rest of My Life. Since making that goal in May I've read 7. Goal B is Blog Weekly for a Year. I'm on it.

Eating Birdie's leftover noodles. In a robin's egg blue bowl. With wine.

Managing to stay at this first weight goal for longer than a minute. Even though the past few weeks everything continues to conspire against my being able to exercise more than 3 days a week. I'm so close to seeing a huge breakthrough that this is endless FRUSTRATING. I wanted to be down another size by the middle of summer and into another set of my old clothes, winking at me daily from the closet. But the children care nothing for my goals. Also, nothing for my sanity.

(This is taking a turn from the gracious... Let's see if I can get back on track...)

Time with friends today. At their house, so I didn't even have to mop! Coffee, snacks, lunch, a craft for the older three, lots of heart-talk. (Such a good morning that I just don't know where the sadness came from this time...)

Plans beginning to sprout in my head for Pea's schooling. We're still a year or so off from really needing to do anything, but I'm convinced of the importance of honoring a child's natural hunger to know. And she is chock-full of questions all of a sudden.