Right Now

Starting the new year off with a fierce head cold/pink eye/sinus infection totally sucks. I started to not feel good the day after Christmas and I am just now yesterday feeling MUCH better and still not 100%.

I had the song lyrics "red solo cup, you fill me up" stuck in my head for days. It was quite irritating. Now they've been replaced with "the rhythm is gonna getchya" (and I have NO idea where that came from!). Definitely not an improvement. And what is worse is that unlike LBR I don't get to hear the entire song in my head. Just those same lines over and over and over. For days. Ugh.

Yesterday was a totally rockin' homeschool Monday. I went to 6am Pump Up, and then for the next 5 hours we rocked our homeschool day. It was also the first day of this new year that I managed to get in both a meaningful personal scripture study AND family scripture study. For the reason for this see number one above.

We are having the craziest winter weather that I have seen in my now 10 full years in FF. Yesterday it reached 50 degrees and the sun was shining. We have very few patches of snow here and there. At about 1:30 I let the girls go outside for phys ed. I let them stay outside until 3. I figured I'd better take advantage of this strange occurrence.

While the girls were outside I corrected two of Miranda's writing assignments. She is super fancy now. She sent me her assignments in a google document, had me grade and comment on them and send them back. I did not get to use my red pencil.
I think that may have been her point.

I made lasagna for supper (dinner for you California friends and family) last night. It is my Grandma Raynor's recipe. I have only made it 1 or 2 times before in my 20 years of marriage. It has always seemed VERY time consuming to me. Lately I have been craving it. It was a hit and just as yummy as I remember. I think it is the fennel in the Italian sausage that triggers that food/flavor memory for me.
Does that ever happen to you? A smell/taste/sound trigger a childhood memory?

I am loving my OLW. I really had intended to do a whole separate blog post about it, but here it is. This year my one little word is FAITHFUL. Past words have been More and Less, Balance, Forgive and cannot remember the other one or two. Anyway, faithful is a perfect olw for me this year. I KNOW what works for me in my life. It is not some mysterious, unattainable formula or something that I am still trying to figure out. I KNOW what to do. So why don't I do it? All the time? Consistently? So this year I am striving to be faithful in all things. Okay, I do have much more to say about this so maybe I really do need to give it it's own blog post.

Good thing I got up at 6am to write. And about that. Writing. I know it is something that I am supposed to be doing. Regularly. I have just had a hard time fitting it in. Heavenly Father has been trying to show me the schedule that I can follow to fit everything in for several years now. I am weak and willful. 4am is really hard for me. So I am going to be getting up at 5am to write before 6am class each day. Ugh. Hadn't intended on putting that out there for everyone to see.

Derek has returned to work after 8 weeks off recovering from shoulder surgery on November 10. I did enjoy having him around after he quit moping and whining....so the last week or so really over the holiday season, but I think I was really craving our routine. Pretty sure that is where the awesome dinner (lasagna, garlic bread and salad), and rockin' homeschool day came from.

Today is Miranda's World Premier of her library commercial. She says that it will be available on You Tube tomorrow. I will post a link. She is not letting me come to the premier. Shocking, I know. I can't wait to see her utilizing her Ninja skills.

I am always amazed (although I don't know why) at the power of gratitude. Every time I really focus on what I am thankful for I can see so much more clearly the priorities and the good things in life. This year I am participating in this project started by my sister Christine and her bestie DL. I was intending to just do the one letter a month for twelve months, but everyday I can think of someone else to express my gratitude to. I don't think I will ever make it to a letter a day like Christine but once a week just may happen. Check it out. Gratitude can be life altering.

That's it. That's my right now. Unless you really want to know that right now I am going to go eat a bowl of Post Raisin Bran with almond milk. Now that is really RIGHT NOW.