I'm pretty sure I was never as silly and giggly as my daughters have become. Maybe it's a sister thing. I wouldn't know much about that. I grew up with all brothers. I remember being pretty giggly with my friends, but that was not ALL THE TIME. My girls can completely entertain themselves just repeating lines from a movie/cartoon/commercial/whathaveyou...for hours. It seems each time a particular line is repeated, it becomes more hilarious, until they are rolling around in hysterics. And at that point anything said or done by anyone around is just as humorous.
Anyway, at least they're not fighting--at the moment. That will be in about 5 minutes.
Heavenly Father must have a really advanced sense of humor...sending me 4 daughters. What the heck am I doing with 4 daughters? At least I did have 1 son. Poor lonely little guy spends a lot of his time these days either playing Legos or Lego Star Wars X-Box.
It's raining today. It was absolutely freezing, too... like 45 degrees. I know, I know...I can feel the pity from here. You must feel so sorry for us Arizonans. It's February and we are suffering down here with a weird cold snap disturbing our usually sunny and 70 degree weather. Some how we'll get through it. I made stew for dinner to fight off the chill.
I've decided that since I can not change where I live (our house is now worth about $60K LESS than we owe on it), the only thing I can change is my attitude. So, from now on--even though I dread the coming summer vehemently--I will not whine or complain.
I will look for the beauty in the cactus, sunsets and mountain vistas and ignore the brownness of the desert and utterly depressing lack of trees. I will enjoy the feeling of fresh air while I have it and smile at the sunshine. I've got about 3 months until I will no longer be able to deny my children regular visits to the pool and will be forced to wear a swimsuit in public. In that 3 months, I can do my best to make that coming day a bit less dreadful by trying to lose some weight. And then I am determined to be happy and content with myself regardless of any horrible torture my mirror sees fit to inflict on my delicate psyche. I will.
There...it is now made public and I must hold myself accountable to you...my virtual reader out there in the blogosphere. Whoever you are...now you can rest assured not to have to read any more whining, sniping anti-Tucson blog posts from me. I will hold my mouse high and march my typing fingers forward in positive, upbeat blog posts full of witty humor, amazing insight and the occasional funny kid story.
This is my promise to you...the blog visitor.
2 comments:
I don't think you always have to be positive. I find much humor in the negative and mundane. That's real life. Not all the goody goody happy mask us Mormon mommies think we need to put on. If you read my last post, it was mostly mishaps and unrealized expectations for the day. When I read it now, I think it's funny. I think you are hilarious, and believe it or not, there are lots of things I miss about Tucson. Chin up and all that!
Thanks, Alicia. I do my best to never wear the goody goody happy mask. But I could do with a bit more positive outlook. What do you miss about Tucson? I'd be interested to hear...
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