If I haven't returned your phone call.....

.....and that list of people who I need to call is growing longer every day. Some of you have even called more than once. And the persistant folks who are going on three times, well, let me give a little summary of the past month.

1) I flushed my cell phone down the toliet. In an act of depseration, I plunged my hand in and shoved it up into the little curvy part of the toliet and I retrieved that darn little phone. And I carefully dried it by alternating it between a bowl of rice in the nights and letting it bask in the sun during the day. And guess what....it works! I just needs a new battery. Then the frugal part of me gave in to the germ phobic in me and I though NO WAY am I holding something that has been in the toliet next to my mouth. And so, I am back to using my old phone. It's cuter any way.

2) Work stress--so, you know what I do. Let your mind go wild with worst case scenarios. Pick several of those and mesh them all together and that pretty much sums up the week I had. I'm already sensitive and a tad emotional....well, this kind of put me over the edge. If Hollywood had a genre called "dramatic comedy" I think they would show up on my door step wanting help writing a script. And for all my social work friends out there...rest assured, I will absolutely protest when they try to cast the social worker as the dumpy middle aged women with a chip on her shoulder.

3) The church I go to had a fire that destroyed the inside of the chapel. See point #2 above. When you have a lot of stress, knowing there is a place to go to soothe your soul is nice. Oh wait, it burned down.

4) Work again. During all my work stress I had to keep all the appointments I already had. I was barely home. Then I had to go to a training. My plans were to call each and every one of you back while I was making the long drive to my destination and back home. Instead I decided to have an emotional break down and cry the whole drive.

5) My car ran out of gas on the interstate. This really has no reason to do with why I haven't been returning phone calls except to say that I am apparently out of it lately (the lately point could be argued...but remember, I'm overly sensitve right now so let's just pretend I am with it sometimes or I just might start crying again).

So, please, forgive my lack of communication the past three weeks. And hopefully we can catch up soon.

God's Masterpiece

Sensing my frustration at her for misplacing yet another item, Grace told me "Mom, I am angry at myself too, but this is just the way God made me....I misplace things a lot."

Yes sweetheart, you do, but I still love you bunches. Thanks for reminding me to accept people for the way they are.

1/2 Marathon

After just under two months of preparation, this weekend I ran in the Poky 1/2 Marathon. Even though it has been a bit difficult with our schedule to carve out time for my runs, it was well worth it as completing the race was such an awesome feeling. It has been over 6 years since my last official race so I was a bit nervous. But, thanks to a lot of good advice from my friend and veteran 1/2 marathon runner Mandi, and lots of verbal support from Jessica, Susan, and Brad, I boarded the bus to the starting line feeling like I was about as prepared as I could be at this point. The highlights of the race for me were seeing the kids and Brad cheering me on at about mile 8 and of course, crossing the finish line.