Randam Ramblings...

I was making our bed this morning (more info on that in just a second) and my mind started wandering to my blog. I thought of how much I like to keep up on it. It's been a fun way for me to keep a journal of our family and of some of my rambling thoughts. And then my mind turned to you. who me? yes you...my readers. I thought of how much I've enjoyed your comments and your thoughts. I thought of how you all make feel validated when I write about how silly I felt for doing this or how happy I felt for doing that.

And then I realized...

I was in that awkward stage of when two people really like each other but are afraid to say anything first in fear that the other person won't feel the same way. But I'm going to be the brave one, I'm just going to say it...

I like you dear readers. I like you a lot.

There. I said it. I feel better.

Okay, so on to another rambling thought today... Like I said, I was making our bed this morning. For any of you that really know me. Like know me so much that I actually let you see my house when it's a mess. You would know that I don't make my bed. I just don't. It has never been a priority. Not when I lived a home. Not when I was at school. (So sorry for that, Kenia Ann.) And not since I've been married. I don't have anything against it. Oh wait...okay, so I did make it while I was on my mission but that was just me following mission rules. It certainly didn't carry over when I got home. I felt like it took too much time when I was just going to mess it up in a few hours anyway. That it until 20 days ago. But let me back up. 20 days ago I was on one of those "I'm going to write down every single thing I want to do and change about myself and try and change it all at once, starting now" kind of days. Are you like that? It seems like I go through phases where I'm totally motivated and I make a list of 67 things that I'm going to change. I do really good for about a day and a half and then realize there is no way I'm going to be able to do all of this so I get burned out and just stop everything. Well, 20 days ago I was feeling that fire burning under me but then had an "ah-ha" moment as Oprah would say. I decided that instead of thinking I was actually going to change everything from keeping the house spotless to studying my scriptures for 30 minutes everyday, I would just choose one. One goal. That's all I gave myself. And guess what? I've been doing it for 20 days without fail.

I've made our bed. every. day.

And I gotta say, I feel really accomplished.

The weather has been a-ma-zing this week. We've been living outside. I love the south this time of year. Blue skies, 70 degrees and new leaves on the trees. (Of course, come July I'm going to be cursing the South but right now, ahhhh, heaven.)

Here's a few photos from our time at one of the parks...

Even thought this picture is blurry I had to put it in. For one split second Maddie was finally acting her silly fun self in front of the camera.

She usually looks like this. Sullen, and staring off into the distance.