Hello there, well...here I am...on my happy moment blog...going to dig deep tonight folks. Today was a day that I am hoping can direct your attention to being kind to others. "Be kind and friends will follow." I don't know when I first heard that quote, but I have tried to live it each day. I tried to do that in my hospital bed time and time again with each nurse I met back in the day. I tried to do that with real estate agents as I worked on selling my home in California and moving here to Texas. I have tried ever so hard to do that as, for the last month going on two now, National Van Lines has held our personal belongings hostage in a storage facility in California with no driver, then brought our items to Texas only to have some of the most important ones get badly damaged or lost and then tell us there is nothing they can do for us. Today was one of those days that I reminded myself over and over again to be kind. To remember that the voice on the other end of the phone was another human being with possibly a family, with friends, and someone who deserves to be treated fairly. Today my readers I was pushed to the edge of kindness and bordered on rudeness, but I did not cross that line, and I will not cross that line. We are doing everything we can to get answers and to do what is right, but it has been a difficult day. Days like today and I truly do appreciate our family's mantra of "Find the joy." It helps to remember to smile and to go do something fun amidst the stress.
So today the boys were eager to find the playroom less full of boxes and more full of their unpacked toys and legos. Connor was so sweet as he eagerly jumped around and cheered with joy over his Duplo legos being available to play with once more! Joel was happy to find some of his Star Wars Lego kits and began building them this morning.
We didn't get out of the house until a bit later because of lots of phone calls today, but we ate at one of the local hamburger places for lunch. I had a chocolate milkshake (yes, stress eating is something I do VERY well lately) and it was delightful! It was so creamy and cold it tasted like I was drinking a marshmallow concoction that had some dark chocolate ribbon mixed through it. The boys enjoyed helping me drink our dessert as well! We headed home and I had a nice time on Facebook chatting with some friends about events. I am so thankful for the friends that I have. I hope that I can make just as good of friends here in Texas as I did in California. I am so thankful for the friends tonight who have dropped me off at the hospital to have surgeries, who have picked me up post surgery, who have been there for me as a single mom for six weeks and shed tears as we navigated single mom stuff together. I am thankful for the friends who click "like" when I share something that is meaningful to me and are as passionate about certain subjects as I am. I am so grateful for my friends who lend virtual shoulders to cry on because they are not here with me physically but absolutely here with me in my heart.
I headed to the mall and did some retail therapy and saw a goofy movie. How I wish I would have had my dear girlfriends to come with me tonight to continue to talk to and with me do some great shopping. I have only lived here a month so having meaningful gal pals is going to take a bit longer, but I so look forward to our trips to the mall and laughter in the future!
Thanks for reading dear readers. I am so grateful for the happy moments of losing myself in a movie or feeling pretty in a dress. I am grateful for a husband who, without one single debate, sends me out the door for some "me" time and doesn't ask me if I got around to accomplishing my long list of errands I still have for tomorrow. I am grateful for the people who know me, who have read the previous 365 days blog and understand that I KNOW roadblocks like most people should NEVER have to know roadblocks. And that I can get through this...for this too will just be another day in my new 365 day journey I can look back on in tears soon and think, "HOW did I get through that day?!" Pleasant dreams all!
So today the boys were eager to find the playroom less full of boxes and more full of their unpacked toys and legos. Connor was so sweet as he eagerly jumped around and cheered with joy over his Duplo legos being available to play with once more! Joel was happy to find some of his Star Wars Lego kits and began building them this morning.
We didn't get out of the house until a bit later because of lots of phone calls today, but we ate at one of the local hamburger places for lunch. I had a chocolate milkshake (yes, stress eating is something I do VERY well lately) and it was delightful! It was so creamy and cold it tasted like I was drinking a marshmallow concoction that had some dark chocolate ribbon mixed through it. The boys enjoyed helping me drink our dessert as well! We headed home and I had a nice time on Facebook chatting with some friends about events. I am so thankful for the friends that I have. I hope that I can make just as good of friends here in Texas as I did in California. I am so thankful for the friends tonight who have dropped me off at the hospital to have surgeries, who have picked me up post surgery, who have been there for me as a single mom for six weeks and shed tears as we navigated single mom stuff together. I am thankful for the friends who click "like" when I share something that is meaningful to me and are as passionate about certain subjects as I am. I am so grateful for my friends who lend virtual shoulders to cry on because they are not here with me physically but absolutely here with me in my heart.
I headed to the mall and did some retail therapy and saw a goofy movie. How I wish I would have had my dear girlfriends to come with me tonight to continue to talk to and with me do some great shopping. I have only lived here a month so having meaningful gal pals is going to take a bit longer, but I so look forward to our trips to the mall and laughter in the future!
Thanks for reading dear readers. I am so grateful for the happy moments of losing myself in a movie or feeling pretty in a dress. I am grateful for a husband who, without one single debate, sends me out the door for some "me" time and doesn't ask me if I got around to accomplishing my long list of errands I still have for tomorrow. I am grateful for the people who know me, who have read the previous 365 days blog and understand that I KNOW roadblocks like most people should NEVER have to know roadblocks. And that I can get through this...for this too will just be another day in my new 365 day journey I can look back on in tears soon and think, "HOW did I get through that day?!" Pleasant dreams all!
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