January is halfway over, February is a short month, and spring begins in March, right? There's a thankful to kick off this week's Ten Things of Thankful list! Moving on....
We had a three day work week! School was already scheduled to be closed on Monday in remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr., then the snow we received on Monday afternoon closed school for Tuesday.
Payback for having bonus days off is the kids are completely SQUIRRELY with the combination of snowfall outside and being cooped up inside due to frigid temperatures. Worth it.
My leaky, 100 year old home has handled these arctic temps remarkably well! Both furnaces have continued to work and the pipes did not freeze.
My husband was out of town all week for work, so double thanks that nothing happened to the house while he wasn't here. I hate having to adult by myself.
My friend Nikki's birthday was Tuesday, and the roads were clear enough that we made it out of the house and out to lunch.
My daughter found out she received two more CALI Excellence for the Future awards for fall semester, bringing her to three for the semester and four over-all. These two were for Estate Planning for Charitable Giving and in State & Local Government Law. She is awesome!
On Thursday, my friend Ceason's husband brought his new motorcycle by school and took me for my second motorcycle ride of my life (the first was when I was 7 and was done very slowly on our street by our neighbor's cool Uncle Bud). I had a hella time getting my leg hiked over the bike (note to self: do something about this), but I didn't fall off! Winning!
I visited my dad this weekend. Due to the snowy weather LAST weekend, I wasn't able to go see him, so I stocked him up on orange juice, bread, lunch meat, eggs, ice cream bars, Pepsi and toilet paper. You know, the essentials. We also went out to lunch on Saturday. It was my dad's first visit to a restaurant since May, and he was craving a good, greasy hamburger!
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| Danna's BBQ in Branson and the burger was delicious and not in the least bit greasy but he was still happy in spite of the look on his face. |
As I opened the back door of the Sequoia to unload the groceries, there was a crash and a 24 pack of Pepsi fell out of the back of the vehicle and onto my right foot before landing on the frozen driveway. This was followed by the SECOND 24 pack that did the same exact thing. Both boxes exploded on impact, there were cans lying in the snow, frozen Pepsi drizzled everywhere, and my foot hurt. It took me some time to gather up 48 cans and two soggy cardboard boxes, but when I finally got all the Pepsi mess AND all the groceries into the house, it turned out that only one can had opened (thanks in large part to my FOOT for taking the brunt of the crash). I opened one of the cans today for my dad and the Pepsi didn't spew out, so much relief that my dad won't have to open each one outside.
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| Wondering if my foot was broken. |
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| Looks like a little bomb went off inside. |
BONUS THANKFUL. The Chiefs won their playoff game against Buffalo. Next, they play Baltimore, and the winner goes to the Super Bowl. GO CHIEFSSSSSS!!!
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| Jason Kelce, Travis Kelce's brother, after KillaTrav's first of two touchdowns. I assume my brother would do the same for me.... |
So many thankfuls, so little time.
I hope you didn't break your foot! If you did, that would make getting your leg over the motorcycle just that much harder. How cool are you, Ms. Motorcyclist?!
ReplyDeleteI didn't fall off the motorcycle, so that's the best I can say about my abilities there! And my foot STILL hurts!
DeleteThat's a wonderful list, except for the possible broken foot. I pray it's just bruised and will recover quickly.
ReplyDeleteI had a pretty good bruise and it is STILL tender weeks later. Ugh! At least I learned a lesson on where and where NOT to put the soft drinks!
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