Helping

I feel so good when I can help others, which I guess I do what I do for a living. I might not be able to make a difference everyday but I can try. I feel like I might have made a difference today.

I am reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. It is really making me think and has certainly come to me at a time when I need it, with all the changes I've been through this year. The number one priority is to think positive, happy thoughts.

Laugh

Laugh allowed, laugh aloud.
That's all:)

Blue Jacket

I looked at what I was wearing this morning and I was in all black, gray and white. So I decided to wear my blue jacket to add some color to my day (even though I wouldn't be wearing it all day).
I actually surprised my husband with his birthday present this weekend. He usually guesses correctly what I have bought, even if he hasn't asked for it. How DOES he do that? But success this time!

A Memory, a Smile

Two of my students were talking today about their favorite breakfast - sugar on toast. So I shared the story about how when I was in 6th or 7th grade I was spending the night with a friend. We stayed up really late, of course, and snuck into the kitchen to get the ingredients for sugar sandwiches - white bread, butter and sugar! I can't imagine eating one today.

2 out of 2

Today's positive thoughts are:
-there was no throwing up in the house today
-I reconnected with a friend via Facebook
It was a good day and now it is time to go to bed. I think I will stop and get a Starbuck's tomorrow on the way to school.

My positive thoughts for the day.

I've been so stressed and down. I have a student who is the most challenging I have ever had and I lack the training to deal with him. But he is not going anywhere, so I am only going to think positive thoughts. I will not let it ruin every minute of my day.

So my positive thoughts today were:
-the telephone is wonderful when you get to talk to your long distance family that you miss. I did that yesterday.
-I have the ability to remain calm in my classroom even when things are not calm around me.
-I have students who get such joy out of little things (like typing a word wrong on purpose to watch Word fix it automatically). So I need to emulate them.
-My treadmill arrived today, so I hope to walk away my stress.

I CAN do this every day.

Transitions

So Seattle it is.

I survived our beach vacation. Oh, the long days of sitting by the gulf with life long friends and drinking a beverage of choice. The biggest decision of the day being "do I make sandwiches for the guys and walk from the house to the beach with them?"

Then it's back to reality: Finding and job, selling a house. What's my priority? My husband says both, hm.... I can only stand so much of either at one time, so I do a little of one and then work on the other.

My oldest son has left for his own adventure in Argentina. His blog notes a lot of the feeling I have, but of course his adventure takes a lot more courage. What he has left behind is a lot of stuff I have to make presentable in our "pristine" house.
My first task - finding what he brought home that smells like cat pee!