No.295: Our Extraordinary Ordinary Life // September 2019 Edition

6:30 AM – Grateful for a good night’s sleep.  I normally wake up about an hour earlier, so I must have needed the rest! 

7:30 AM – Grateful for thirty minutes and 1.75 miles walking on the treadmill. 

8:30 AM – Grateful for breakfast with my little beggar.  She sits at my side and hopes something will miraculously fall from my plate.  Those eyes!

9:30 AM – Grateful for a read-aloud that has the kids calling, “One more chapter!” and a successful science experiment.

 10:30 AM – Grateful to find a way to repurpose old, broken crayons.  I went through our supplies while the kids made Japanese mandarin duck sculptures with Sculpey clay.

11:30 AM – Grateful for her enthusiasm as she practiced reading.  We’re changing everything up again to try to get some reading momentum.  I hope this works.

 12:30 PM – Grateful for a moment to myself outside during our lunch hour. 

 1:30 PM – Grateful for plenty of clothes to wash and dry and fold.

 2:30 PM – Grateful for the lesson that the smallest acts of kindness can mean so much.  My oldest passed on his desk to TJ and secretly moved it into his closet to become a little Lego room.  When he revealed what he’d done, TJ was so excited and hugged both the desk and his brother. 


____ 3:30 PM _____ Oops, I must have missed this one!

 4:30 PM – Grateful that Lucy is almost 100% back to normal, although that means she’s back to her crazy antics and sometimes naughty behavior too.

 5:30 PM – Grateful for reducing food waste with Refrigerator Clean-Out Night.  We fill the counter with all of the leftovers and little bits of food that need to be eaten up and the kids go to town creating whatever they want.

 6:30 PM – Grateful for mild evenings to play outside.  I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.

 7:30 PM – Grateful for bathtime to clean up sweaty heads and dirty feet.

8:30 PM – Grateful for a new book to crack open at the end of a good day.