And this.

Posted today on a Facebook Mom's group. Perspective continued.

  

update: The outpouring of stuff for this lady has been insane. In the last 2 hours, there's been almost a full house full of furniture offered, for free. See, PEOPLE ARE GOOD!

note: Although writing the post below did put a smile on my face and make me feel much less grumpy, it did not in any way help this large pile of work on my desk go away. Perhaps my next post should be something about 'setting priorities', cuz God knows I have some issues getting what I need done when I need to do it.

work schmurk. blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Perspective

I was having a grumpy day. I have tons of work to do and very much don't want to do it. It is tedious and boring and makes me want to pull my eyelashes out of my head one by one. Poor poor me.

So, in the vain of procrastination, I went onto Facebook. Here I am, scrolling through my News Feed, and I get to this post made by a woman who is in a Mom's Group that I sometimes attend (OK, twice... I'm not much of a joiner). She writes:

ISO coupons for food. We are short and need a little help with food this week.

Can you imagine how tough it would have been to post that amongst 'friends'?

And then, once again, I am reminded how good I have it. Yes, building a database makes my eyeballs bleed. But my belly is full (too full probably), I have a roof over my head, my family is healthy, and my babies are happy.  What do I have to be grumpy about?

So, I say be grateful today. Take a good look around and realize just how good you have it.

"The happiest people don't HAVE the best of everything, they just MAKE the best of everything."

Playing catch-up

after two fab back-to-back vacays, so no time to post, but here are a couple pics for your viewing pleasure:

Toe-tally Trash Talking!

I am at the salon getting a luxurious pedi, and all is well with the world. Except of course for the fact that I am currently presenting my nasty leper-esque bug bitten legs and ankles to the nice lady doing my toes. And although she was very nice to me when I pointed out, just in case she might assume me to be contagious, that they are just big bites; there was a great deal of convo between her and the other toe-doers seeming pointed at my growdy polka-dotted legs. I know they are talking smack, but in fairness, I would probably do the same thing. It does look horrid! Hopefully pretty toes will detract from the oh so hot scabby kid at camp look that I have going...

The only thing worse than practically translucent lily white skin is practically translucent lily white skin covered with big red wounds. Smith Mt. Lake, eat your heart out. This hottie is headed down for vacay!

"When I grow up, I want to be a Clinical Data Manager"

said no one EVER.

ugh. It's yet another one of those days. I feel like I'm running around like a chicken with her head cut off, yet I'm accomplishing absolutely nothing. Work is still piling up and I've been on the phone with IT 4 times today. Laundry is insane. Unpacking still needs to be done. And I desperately need a pedicure and an eyebrow threading. I don't know where the time for any of this this is going to come from. (Yet I sit here writing a blog post. hmmm.) Basically, I'm over all of this and would like a personal assistant, a pedicurist who comes to my office, and a new job please. (Of course I must be able to said job in my PJs and preferably not work very hard...)

The good news is vacay numero dos commences this Saturday, and I am actually fully off from work for this one! (I "worked" when we were up in CT, which didn't amount to tons of work, but did add a little stress to a wonderful, but jam-packed trip.) We are headed down to Smith Mt. Lake to spend the week with Brad's fam. Supposedly Brad is fully off too, although I'll believe that when I see it.

Before Saturday I would like to accomplish the following:
complete the weeks worth of work looming over my head
lose 20 lbs
eyebrows & mani-pedi
buy fun new vacay outfits
find an incredibly flattering bathing suit
perfectly pack our stuff in an organized manner that even Martha herself would covet
wash all laundry from last week
get the car washed
miraculously get tan (to cover up the 47 red blotchy bug bites all over my lily white legs)
learn to dive

wish me luck.

ISO a vacation from my vacation

6 hour late night trip home with 2 babies taking turns crying/screaming for the better part of 4 hours somehow serves to negate the relaxation benefits of vacation entirely.

Discombobulated and cranky today. My very long, very daunting to-do list is plaguing me.

I feel the only reasonable response to all of this is to take a nap.
Thank god for babysitters and working from home.

Love this card making app

Sent this to Michelle and Danny for being such wonderful hosts to us!

Fabulous chevron wrapping paper wrapped house warming gift to follow as a proper thank you sometime soon. Contents yet TBD.

It's 6:30.

Dinner time for Annie. But she's at GranNee's.
All this found time.
Quiet house.
Violet's napping. (Sleeping out another tooth, I think.)
So many things I should be doing, but instead I choose Facebook, HGTV, and a glass of wine.
THANK YOU GRANNEE!

My stoic little cowgirl

Living the life on GranNee's farm!
(Real cowgirls keep their smiles to a minimum... gotta keep em guessing!...)

And Mommy/Violet bonding time in the almost too quiet Annie-less house!