Encouraging

Apparently we're all posting updates, today! I was so glad to see updates from Heidi and Patricia in my inbox. Ladies, a word of encouragement: even if we're not doing as amazingly well this week as we have hoped to, I think it shows an amazing amount of fortitude that we all got on here and posted anyway!!

That said, it must have been something in the water this week, because I didn't do so well either. Well, let me clarify. I had some progress. But I have had to be very forgiving with myself.

I was too busy being sick to want to serve others. So, I didn't. Except my family, which I originally said counts. I guess I will have to count it as progress. Or at least blissful complacency, since I already take care of them anyway!

I was too busy being sick to be joyful. Honestly, I spent most of the week being grouchy and inaccessible. My poor children.

I was also too busy being sick to be very positive. Are we sensing a pattern here??? I'm guessing from the tone of my post, you can guess that I was not feeling very positive this week.

Thankfully, a beacon in this dark abyss of sinus pressure: my sense of humor stuck. It's just about the only thing getting me through a time of snotty-icky-cough'y-yuckiness. I'm ever so glad I have been working on keeping things light. I will prevail!! This next week will be much better. I can already tell. My nose is feeling much more clear, and the baby went to bed at a decent hour tonight!! HOORAY.

My long term goals went pretty well. We're back on our budget and headed for home-ownership. WOOT! And, I am taking in a meal to a friend this week.

Again, as we part, my joke of the week. Not a 'laugh out loud' joke, but it still made me smile:

A man whisks his wife away from their children and messy house, for a weekend at a coastal resort. They're walking along the beach, hand-in-hand, when a beautiful, buxom, bikini-model- type blond goes strolling by. The man is careful not to look too closely. But his wife, at seeing the blond, bursts into tears. "Why are you crying?" asks the man of his wife. She replies, "Because my body will never look like that again." The man sweetly and sincerely takes his wife in his arms and says, "Neither will hers."