At this moment I am

… tired.  It’s a P.A. Day and because of this stupid cold and congestion, I am up before 6:30 a.m. again 😦

… grateful for all of the ways that Mr. KB has made improvements to our house that help things (and me) work and organize better.

… sad.  This has been a difficult week and things just have not been going the way I want or need them to.

… determined to fix the things in my life that are not working and make them better.

… smiling at the sight of my youngest two offspring sitting at the island and having their morning bananas.

… pleased with the outcome of Parent-Teacher night for my older two smalls.  There are some things to work on, but nothing insurmountable.

… nervous for Pax and Deacon who are each testing for a  new Tae Kwon Do belt tonight.

… happy that since we installed our new pellet stove that we’ve been able to keep the house warm without using propane.

… looking forward to having today with the smalls and trying to come up with a game plan so everyone has a good day.

… grateful to have another day to fix my mistakes, change my ways and make headway in my dreams of personal transformation (not physical – that’s too lofty a goal for me today).

… digging deep to find some inner-calm to help carry me through the hard moments and help me not take my frustrations, anger and disappointments out on others (honestly stated, I suppose this would mean my kids, since we do not have a family dog).

… hopeful that I will be able to transfer my iPod music to this laptop and get iTunes syncing, up and running without losing all of my music.

… excited to play and help our kids learn how to play our new (to us) piano that we adopted earlier this week.

… sore from this random hip/thigh joint pain (that is NOT connected to getting old, thankyouverymuch!) and thinking that maybe it is time to consider losing some weight to see if that helps.  Only just thinking of considering at this point, people.

… almost in tears and cannot for love or money figure out what my damage is.  So stupid.

So, that’s how I am at this exact moment in time.  How are you?

Manners, people. It is all about manners. And smiling. Manners and smiling. Together, they make a lot of the wrongs in our world, right.

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