Simple Woman’s Daybook (3.8.10)

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First Day Swim School Tears

Today was Molly’s first day at swim school and she was pretty excited. It was actually an advanced class which she was trying since she hadn’t taken a “Water Babies” class where she would have been in the pool with a parent. The other kids had been going for several weeks and not all of them were as excited to be there as she was.

Molly was quite enthusiastic from the beginning. (She may have been reminded by Livy that candy would be used as a motivational incentive.) But she may need to work on holding her breath since almost every picture I took ended up with her tongue hanging out.

We did have our share of tears though… which came when it was time to leave. A good problem to have. Needless to say, Molly as accepted into the Super Water Baby class!

Winter Olympics

Because I know y’all are in the winter Olympic mood I had to pass this along. I learned via Facebook that Justin Semin is participating in the Polar Plunge this Saturday. No it’s not a new event in Vancouver. It’s a fundraiser for Special Olympics Nebraska where crazy people take a plunge into frigid Holmes Lake. In the process of donating to sponsor Justin I looked at his team’s page and found that Zach Fenton is also on the team. Justin is an old high school friend of mine and we know Zach through Jenny’s brother Nathan. I can’t say we were surprised to find either one of these guys doing something crazy, but we were glad it was for a good cause so we had to sponsor both of them. Feel free to sponsor them as well.

Sponsor Justin Semin

Sponsor Zach Fenton

Hooves and Feathers

I’m not sure what it says about us but maybe we spent a little too much time on the farm this fall. I’m home with the girls without Jenny for the evening and when I asked the girls what they wanted for supper, Livy responded with “Pig meat” (her favorite). Molly said she wants “Cow meat”. We don’t have any pig meat thawed out so in the end they compromised and we’re having cow meat and chicken meat. I’m proud of my little rural carnivores.

Small Successes (vol. 4)

Faith & Family has a regular Thursday meme called Small Successes. They describe it as follows:

It’s important for moms to recognize that all the small successes in our days can add up to one big triumph. So on Thursday of each week, we do exactly that.

I’m trying to put more focus on the positive these days so let me share what went well this week:

1. I started a new fitness program with JR that requires 75 minutes of high intensity workouts six days a week. We are into our third week and I’ve only missed one workout (due to illness). It feels really good to be so active and even better to spend 75 extra minutes a day with my workout buddy.

2. I got our belated Christmas/New Years’ cards out this week.

3. I got my sewing tub out from the back corner of a closet and was re-inspired to make some baby blankets for several friends who have just had new babies. Nothing fancy here – just some flannel swaddling blankets, but something soft & something homemade.