Always turns out as it should
Surrender, Reflection, Om, etc.
Today I got up earlier than usual... as in I was out of the house by 7:45AM to get to an 8AM clinical deep tissue massage appt. But you know what? The Practitioner never showed! I wasn't all that upset. I mean, yeah... I would have loved the work and it would have been a major help, but I didn't get all that upset at all. I left a message at the office and headed back home.
In the time it would have taken for me to get massage, I made and cleaned up after breakfast, helped formulate the rather ambitious to do list for the day and was out the door again with Big Boy to do some grocery shopping so Hubby could get dressed and get Little Girl dressed too.
We did Home Depot. This is where the surrender aspect of my day comes in. Our back.. yard? Foot? spot? patio? That fugly spider infested overly invested in area behind our townhome that just needs something awful. Well, we have done soo much. I'll spare the story... but suffice it to say the sod just croaks no matter what. the ground is crazy tough and the guys who even called us back or estimated us on installing pavers or brick said it would be effing $4,500 to do. fuggetabatit! What did we do? surrender to parenthood and that fact that we will not live beyond our means in this house. Surrender to the fact that our DIY days are not going so well (bathroom is still not done, kitchen barely done.... months on both). Realize WE don't want to be hauling the expensive, time consuming, difficult back breaking pavers ourselves. SOOooooo we just bought a bunch (about 24 cubic feet) of mulch and just turned that space into a play structure area. We hauled it in, we spread it around, Big Boy danced and kicked and said he liked it a lot... and it cost about $45 (after our HD return store credit stuff). Do I love it? Not really. Will it do? Heck yes. Will it make the kids happier in the back yard? seems to. Another play area option? yup. Fit for company? oh, the jury is still out. But we do rid our minds of the pain the butt it was trying to keep a patch of green alive out there... or the bird feeders that attracted rats, .... ugh... on it goes...
Well that whole activity wore out the kids. tantrums, tears, medicine for their head colds and they crash. Then Hubby got to complete the tiling the the nevberending bathroom project and I cleaned kitchen, did four loads of laundry, pruned the ivy and roses out front, welcomed the kids back to the world of the living, did Baby Girl's bath.... Hubby called it a day on the bathroom and so we went to dinner!
got home, put kids down and are now enjoying The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. How very apt. So long and thanks for all the fish!