Striving

For some reason lately things are getting busy around here or maybe its me, maybe I feel that Preston is growing up and doesn't need me as much as he did as a baby and now I have time to do things that I enjoy. Either way its a struggle. A desire to be needed and a desire for a bit of freedom.

I have been doing things for myself lately and enjoying it, such as I'm still going to the gym 5 days a week in training for a marathon. However I just found out that the marathon is the same day that we are also going to the circus with other families from the moms club that I belong to. Still trying to work that one out with marathon in morning and circus around lunch time. I may have to run as fast as my feet will let me and meet everyone at the circus, stinky and all. Maybe the smell of the elephants will distract everyone from smelling me.

I am on a new committee for the city that we live in, its called community development and its on Wednesday night. It will meet once a month and we will help plan, develop, and discuss what we would like to see the next 10 years for our community. I'm looking forward to this one, I had to call the mayors office last year to be put on a list and they just now called to ask me to join them.

I'm attending a free self defense class offered by our local police next week. We live in a very safe area however you can never be too careful and I just love attending things that our local area offers. I think its important to support local restaurants, city offerings and community events. Especially in todays economy. I think we are lucky that they still offer things for us to do and care about bringing the community together. Eat local people ,you will find out that for the most part the food is actually better than some of the larger chains.

I was offered an opportunity for a chance at a job with wonderful hours however it was going to be a drive and wasn't worth the cost of putting Preston in daycare. It would of been a great job, great hours but just too far. There will be other opportunities. Nice to think that maybe just maybe I still have it, even after being out of the game (work) for 4 years as stay at home mom.

Lots of yard work that I have already started on. Working in my flower garden already. The perimeter of our entire house has some type of flower garden/ ornamental grass/work needed. Mulch has been ordered and will delivered soon to our driveway so that will be a job in itself trying to get that spread out.

Moms club still meeting each week and I'm looking forward to us moving our indoor stuff to local parks now that the weather has changed.

Spring cleaning-started, hate it, have much to do, wish I could hire it out, need warmer weather so I can clean the carpets so they can dry out fast, who started spring cleaning-I bet it was molly maids or some other type of home cleaning service trying to make more money and making everyone feel that this must be done.

Striving is today's word, that sums up everything going on in my life. Transformers-that would be Preston word lately, he loves transformers. I have had to convert 3 of them already this morning while writing this post. Do those things have to be so hard to convert, they come with page long instructions.