Happy Easter!
With my mom just getting home from the hospital yesterday, our Easter celebrations are much different then what we normally do. Instead of cleaning the house all morning, waiting for family to come by mid afternoon, we lounged around the house for hours.
When we all finally got motivated, Mom moved to the living room chair to read and get a different view. I had the pleasure of cleaning dishes and watching Lifetime movies as Dad cooked our very early dinner. See, Christopher had a hockey game to go to with Greg and Jeff, so we had to have dinner around 2. Which means as I'm writing this blog, I'm thinking about what I want for a snack.
Once dinner was ready, the family sat around the living room and ate. We all got to chat about silly things and how Dad has to put Mom's walker across the room at night so she doesn't go explore without help.
The new type of holiday though? I enjoyed it. Everyone is relaxing now, and I haven't gotten out of my leggings/ tshirt combination. Part of me is sad that I wasn't able to get a bit dressed up at some point in the day, but the other part of me is completely fine with being a bum all day.
Now we are just waiting for some family to come over for coffee and cake that my dad made. Funfetti cake. My favorite cake. Can not wait.
Hope everyone got to spend this holiday with the people they love and enjoying some wonderful food.
Tomorrow I'm going to an engagement party. I personally can not believe I have come to the time of my life where I will be attending engagement parties and bridal showers. Where I will be having to buy wedding presents and pretty dresses instead of what will survive a crazy college party.
When I dress up in my cute dresses, I almost feel like I'm playing pretend. The "formal" night on the cruise made me feel as if I'm a child in an adult body never understanding the proper way to act because she hasn't grown up completely. But I like this whole trying to become an adult thing. Part of me feels as if I will start to get the hang out this growing up thing, eventually.
I know that the child in my will always be there though. Just check out the picture in the post below where I'm dressed up in a beautiful dress but making faces along the way. I'm totally fine with that.
Thanks to my wonderful work schedule this week, my list of things I need to accomplish before my trip seems like a mountain when it really is just a bump along the road. Packing, laundry, nails, calls to all sorts of places, and packing again, I don't know how I'm going to get it all done.
But I just have to remind myself, I will be in Miami on Friday morning as everyone I know heads to work. Does that make this all worth wild? Yes, yes it does.
And while I am nervous about this whole cruise thing due to my wonderful health issues, I'm so excited to be able to go on vacation with some of my favorite people and spend my days in the sunshine.
Sunshine makes everything better.
I'm very proud of all that I accomplished today. The list of activities was long; health things for work, cruise things, packing, cleaning my room.
While that list may not seem extensive, I often get side tracked and leave half of said list "to do tomorrow". And we all know how that story goes; tomorrow the items never get accomplished either.
Anyway, upon taking a "Wellness Review" to see how healthy I am, the computer generated that I am 54 points out of 100. Thank you machine that calculates my well being after some simple questions that either require a "yes" or "no" or pick between 1 and 5.
I'm going to try and be more positive though with this health thing. First, I don't have the pressure of $500 charge because I didn't get something accomplished. Instead I got it done months in advance. Second, after the cruise, I'm going gluten free. I'm lucky enough not to have an allergy like many people I know who have to go gluten free. Instead I'm doing it for my health and fingers crossed, it'll make the inflammation go down. Also after the cruise, I plan on working out more. I may not join a gym, but I don't think it's really necessary to join a gym to be healthier and work out more. First, spring is almost here and I'm going to try to get back into running. And I really want to try Yoga....I think the whole stretching your body and learning to breathe correctly is a wonderful way to destress.
So this is my promise to myself, to become healthier starting mid-March when I return from my trip. It's my body, why don't I try to start taking the best care of it possible?
Yesterday was an amazing day.
When I left work at 4, I did not need my jacket in order to keep warm. Instead, I felt the warmth of spring being just around the corner.
And I could not be happier.
I can not wait until I can fill my room with flowers from the garden again. When I can wear t-shirts and not freeze. When I can open the windows and not have to reach for a blanket to keep warm because warm air is coming into my room.
Spring! It's coming people. Get excited.
