Fully Alive…Ready to Smile

posted by erin on Sep 9

Ten what…I don’t know, things that are in my head today (and this post has taken me 9 1/2 hours to write…see #10).

1.  My little girl started Kindergarten yesterday!  I cannot believe it.  Here she is today marching excitedly to wait for the bus for the very first time (we had to drive them yesterday)…

She could hardly stand still as she waited.  She was just glowing!

I was a little misty eyed as I watched her go up the steps and not even turn around to look at me.  Sigh.  The independence is just blooming in that child and I’m not sure if I’m prepared : )

At least she thought to look and wave after she found her seat.

2. We are frantically trying to get our house in “for sale” mode.  We’ve had the taper in to fix up some “less than perfection” on the ceiling and now I have to HOPEFULLY not repaint my whole ceiling.  We’ll see when the paint dries.  I’m not holding my breath.  That would make me very unhappy to have to do that.  Besides, I ran out of paint.  Ack!

3.  We actually already have 2 parties interested in seeing our house and it’s not even up for sale yet.  The first showing is on Saturday.  This is a good sign of things to come.  Bring it on!

4.  Yesterday we started cleaning up our basement and sorting through the HUGE pile of boxes that was once actually a pile, but has migrated.  All the stuff that we were NOT going to unpack, but…you know, “oh, which box is such-and-such in?” and then you open it up, rifle through it, find what you need and leave it opened with half the remaining contents spilling over (well, maybe YOU don’t, but I did).  Do that over and over and it’s a disaster area and a huge job to clean up and reorganize.

5.  On that note, I’ve decided to get rid of all our baby stuff.  That was a momentous decision.  And probably a bad one.  Isn’t that when someone usually gets pregnant (knock on wood, fingers crossed, prayers sent up to heaven and anything else that will keep me from getting pregnant right now, sorry Jer!).  I went through my girls’ baby clothing and pulled out the stuff I want to keep.  Talk about reminiscing!  If I ever get pregnant again (on purpose or by accident) I will buy new stuff.  I just can’t keep hauling it around from one house to the next.  It’s too much work!

6.  I think I’m getting a cold.  Ick!  I got 3 hours of sleep the night before last and 5 yesterday.  I’m tired.

7.  Ella had her first ballet class tonight.  Yay!  She was so darn cute in her little body suit and ballet slippers.

8.  I have started up jogging again.  And not by myself this time.  I know I posted about my run the other day and it felt so good to get out that I decided to get back into it regularly and I’ve dragged my darling friend Shelley along for the ride (run) kicking and screaming!  She is hilarious.  She agrees to be my jogging partner and then is incredulous when I say we are running in the rain.  If we gonna do it, we gonna DO IT!!!  And besides, it was misting, not really raining.  Felt really good, actually.

I am so impressed by her.  She has never really done the whole jogging out of doors thing (she’s a treadmiller) and by the second time out we made it 1.6 miles.  I know I could have said a mile and a half, but let’s face it people, 1.6 miles IS further than 1.5 and every.single.step.counts!!!  I don’t know yet if we have a goal, but we have decided to go out at least 4 times a week.  I’m not sure what we will do once the snow flies.  I guess we’ll see.

9.  I found my scale yesterday while repacking boxes in the basement and I decided to try it out.  BIG mistake!  Apparently there is something wrong with it and it’s not showing my true weight, ahem, and so I threw it out.  That’ll show it!  : )

10.  Now I’m drinking wine.  ‘Nuf said.