Friday, April 04, 2008

pet peeve #9

list 43 pet peeves and then try to forget about them:

some neighbor who complained to the city about my dogs barking for an hour at midnight, when my dogs aren’t ever outside after midnight and are sound asleep by then!

spending time with carter

it’s been so nice since the time changed so there’s actually sunlight and time to do stuff outside after everyone gets home from work and school. carter started t-ball this spring and we’ve been practicing a lot. he seems to love it and is getting really good. he’s also getting the hang of riding a bike and it’s such a joy to see his excitement about it.

4/4/08 happiness is...

a floor-to-ceiling, third-floor window from which to watch the storm blowing in.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

4/2/08 happiness is....

first of all, i can’t believe 7 weeks have flown by since i’ve posted anything here! the whole point was to find just one thing a day that makes me happy and record it. the good news is, it hasn’t been 7 weeks of unhappiness, just busyness. there’s been much to be happy of and i just haven’t made the time to reflect on it here (which is one thing that makes me UNhappy!) anway, just a few happy things from recent days:
1) carter’s (my 4.5 year old son) excitement at the first steps of riding a bike and seeing him pedal about 50 yards on his own and turning around to see how far he’s gone…and the huge smile on his face at the sight of his accomplishment.
2) carter’s excitement about playing t-ball.
3) uma (our 1 year old great dane) actually showing signs of growing up (and not being a complete goober and menace to our six year old dane, hilde.
4) and last but not least, carter, with hand on mom’s belly, feeling his little brother kicking carter in the hand and “shout whispering”: “i can feel him! i can feel him!”