In Which I Find My Cheery Side Again

First of all, thank you so much for bearing with me in my winter discouragement yesterday and not just telling me to get over myself :) I was hesitant to publish that post because I felt pretty negative, and, while I want this blog to be about my real life, I don't want negativity to steal the show. I thought maybe if I put my frustration out to the internet, it might help. And I don't know if it was publishing that post or if things would have changed anyways, but yesterday was a much better day. If the past few weeks have been murk and mire, yesterday was cheerful tulips. So why are things looking up?

I always tell people that I'm a "really bad stay-at-home, stay-at-home parent." I am an extrovert. I like to be out doing things with my kids and I thrive when I have that kind of schedule. For me, a day at home needs to be a rare treat and not something I do for days on end. Yesterday, despite the fact that Rachel did not go to preschool again, she and I did some errands in the afternoon. (She coughed so hard she threw up in the morning but was back to her normal self after that -- eating, energetic, and happy. I didn't want to send her to preschool but I figured she was well enough to do errands with me.)

Before we left, Rachel declared "Big Elephant crying" 

and proceeded to feed him some tuna!

It was so nice to just get out again. I even treated myself to some Starbucks. Yum yum yum! Rachel enjoyed her free cookie at the grocery store. I will be so sad when my kids are too old for the cookies. They make grocery shopping so much more peaceful.

After school it had warmed up enough that I finally gave in to Sam's request to play on the playground for a bit and I stood around talking for about twenty minutes with some other moms. We all rejoiced in the fact that we weren't freezing (much!).

In the evening we went to LOGOS. I table parent the Jr Youth and we had a great, funny conversation. And then after supper, Sam vacuumed, I drank two cups of tea and talked, and Rachel played. And to top it off, Dave and Tim were twinsies :) It was so great to be at church and visiting with some of my favourite people again. We've all missed our LOGOS nights. And I got enough leftovers that I don't have to cook supper tonight! Double yay!!!

And today I'm getting my hair cut and some highlights added. Triple yay!!! Unfortunately I have to take Rachel with me and it's a two and a half hour appointment. My hairdresser cuts hair out of her basement and has a playroom so it's not as scary as it sounds, but it might still be interesting times.

After that, it's the weekend! And it's supposed to be above 0C on Saturday. Hallelujah!!! Can you tell that this extrovert just needed a HUGE infusion of people time and that I got it? :) Happy weekend everyone!