Day 56

Presenting happy moments in bullet form tonight....

• Took Joel to day two of camp and he showed us around and taught Connor some of the fun stuff he had been doing the day before...brotherly bonding...totally adorable!
• Shopped at Target...the whole thing is just one big happy moment for me folks....AND Connor didn't have a melt down and behaved the entire time so BONUS happy moment there!
• Went to my first appointment with my new Rheumatologist.  Now, when I left my previoius one, I cried my eyes out and we hugged, so this person was going to have a VERY tough act to follow!  But she was amazing and sweet and had the same exact ideas about my treatment plan as I did...AND they were able to draw my blood IN the office instead of me heading to a lab, so I feel SO SO blessed to have found this doctor!  Connor was with me and asking questions and telling people "My poor mommy is here because she is sick!" Bless his little heart, it is so hard to describe something that you can't see and is such an abstract disease.  So when I told him Mommy had to go to the doctor he asked, "Are you sick or do you have to just get some shots?" I told him, "Mommy is sick all the time but this doctor helps me be happy and be able to play with you guys." Good enough for a 3 yr old to grasp I hope!  So YEA for finding a very nice replacement for a doctor that I will need for the rest of my life!
• We went out to dinner and did Taco Tuesday with some neighbors and their grown up children tonight.  Joel and Connor had a lot of fun playing on other people's phones and we enjoyed adult conversation.  We are hoping to do it next week as well...such nice people and good food!

Hope all of you are enjoying your week wherever you are and whatever you may be doing.  I want you to know that my life isn't all roses and sunshine.  I feel weird posting happy moments sometimes when the world is falling down all around me.  Some days almost EVERYTHING the entire day goes bad, or I feel so yucky I just don't want to do anything at all but get in bed and never come out.  BUT, I blog the happy moments of my life HERE so I can keep moving forward with a smile and knowing that there were joyful things about my day.  Finding the positive, even in the gloomiest of days (which wasn't today...today was a pretty good day lol) is really important to me.  But I just wanted to share that I DO have really rough moments, I HAVE had some truly horrid things happen since I have moved here, but I cling to the good and get in bed and what do you know? I made it to the next day, and maybe that one isn't as bad as the previous one!  So if you are having a difficult day, or a hard night...just...Find the Joy.  It IS there, I promise :)  Night all!