Operation Sanity

You know that time ...

from about 4-ish ... till your husband gets home?!? Attempting to make dinner, kids are insane, the dog needs to go out ... my patience is running thin and I'm close to losing my mind ...

I have started Operation Sanity and it's been a grand success.

The Y Childwatch is open from 4:15-7:45 every afternoon ... it's free ... with a membership, which I get for free because I work there, kinda like they are paying me to be sane, ha! I've been taking the kids when Matthew gets home from school. Grace does well with Matthew there, they play and play, while I get in some awesome cardio ... endorphins flowing, and in turn I don't lose my mind. We get home, I have the energy to make dinner, to be a good Mommy, to let the dog out ... I am far more pleasant.

Operation Sanity ought to aid in my ultimate weight loss goal as well ... I'm feeling great this week, working out lots, eating right ... I am looking forward to getting on the scale Saturday morning ... been a while since I've felt that way.

On another note, today is 10 years ... 10 years since I was at Starbucks in Huntington Beach, CA, signing with my friend Vicki, while we were "practicing" our interpreting skills, I was in my last semester in college ... and a handsome Filippino man walked up to me and asked me if I was Deaf? I replied with No, I am an interpreting student ... we talked for nearly 3 hours, exchanged email and were engaged 10 months later ... TEN YEARS. I can hardly believe it.

Thank you Lord for the Y, for Childwatch, for the chance to workout in the afternoon and renew my energy. Thank you for my husband, that he decided to approach me ten years ago, for Your will being done in our lives ... Blessings abound. You are so good to me. Amen.