Catch up (ketchup?) time!

So, I have slept between now and last Tuesday, so I'm going to have to sort of wing it.  If I remember it happening that day, it must be something for which to be grateful.  Here we go...

Wednesday:

• Compassionate school-folk
• Bravery
• Political debates, and good company while watching them
• Spaghetti (yum!)
• Acceptance by new people

Thursday:

• The fact that I don't have to cut Sebastian's hair
• Flower garlands
• Caring adults, especially ones that ignore your "I'm too stressed out" tears
• Sleep
• My cat

Friday:

• When the timing works out just right
• A night off
• Clean house
• Friendship, true loving friendship
• Forgiveness

Saturday: 

• The culture of viola school
• Group lessons that include pushups!  (Only with my son....)
• The little posse of violists
• Taking my mother in law to Ikea - she was in heaven!
• New silverware

Sunday: 

• Playing cards
• Letting the kids play
• Hot tubs
• Church support for The Great Pumpkin Patch
• The church I am in, the denomination and this particular church

Monday:

• Others who realize how silly Columbus Day really is.
• Babes Chicken
• Cousins playing
• Good dentist check ups
• The health and safety of a certain Noah-boy

Twisty Tuesday

Yesterday I had planned on getting a lot of housework done, making a schedule, then taking Sebastian to viola.  None of that happened.  Still, I've got to be grateful for what was yesterday.

• Doctors who act silly
• Sebastian took Karma to go potty.  How sweet is that?
• Viola accessories
• Wonderful friends and their questions
• (Ok working on this one)  Being grateful for being scared.  Means there is importance to it.  

And....random picture of the day:

10-1-12

How about I blog from this side today?

1.  Being close enough to your kid's teacher to be able to send an email that  only contains the words "Sorry about the puke."

2.  Brilliant ideas

3.  The lady in the grocery store who was talking on the phone and  said "crack is whack" as part of a serious conversation.

4.  My kid can pee in a cup.

5.  Supper last night was very yummy.  And all orange, by accident.  Curry and butternut squash.

Time to party!

Yesterday we had a birthday lunch for Karma.  Well, let me back up, first we had church, THEN we had a birthday party for Karma.  Nothing big at all, pizza buffet, grocery store cake (long story there), time with friends and family.  It was good.

The List:
1.  Eggs (see above about the cake)
2.  Sad goodbyes, but only because we're able to get so close to others that we have sad goodbyes
3.  Silly little quotes that make you giggle.
4.  Friend/family
5.  Baked potato pizza.

Karma Rose

Oh yeah, bogo!

Forgot to do this yesterday, so it is a two-fer.  Woot!

Friday:
1.  Sticking to my guns while parenting.  It is so gosh darn hard sometimes but I'm proud that I did it.
2.  God, specifically how God puts us where we're supposed to be.
3.  Being on time (um, rare)
4.  Polka dotted dresses
5.  Potential new friends - or at least people I know at the school.

And the random photo is....

Christmas last year - photo taken by The Amazing Chera

And for Saturday:

1.  You know when you write a weirdly rambling vulnerable email and you don't know how the other person will take it and you sort of just decide "oh well, already sent?"  Yeah, I like the last part of that a whole lot.

2.  Bright yellow/green safety shirts.

3.  My limes and their mystery purpose.

4.  Discussions of great importance surrounded by silly gossip.

5.  Trust

Nephew and I, pretending to sleep <3 p="p">

Almost forgot

Yep, almost forgot to write this tonight.

• Karma wanting to take her (huge) dollhouse to bed with her.
• The very, very last scene in The Avengers - it makes me giggle
• Love, the kind that is understanding, compassionate, changing, and real.
• Sebastian's caring for his sister, especially if she has napped.
• Surprise gifts 

And, the random picture of the day - 

Gratitude list, morning after

My apologies lovely reader(s), I was out late last night having a wonderful time.  So here is The Gratitude List, twelve hours late.

• Familiarity and that feeling of love that comes with it.
• Sebastian getting his homework finished before we even got home, even though "it wasn't fair."
• Emails that make you smile.
• Ok, I have been trying to get some paperwork finished for (literally) years.  Um, like 10 years - it is for a change of name and address for a bank account.  I have finished said paperwork!  Now to mail it...
• Karma licking the peanut butter off of the celery.  

And, as a bonus, a random picture from the archives

Our best attempt at bluebell pictures, 2010