A Few Good Things To Think About

Feels good to go to the surgeon for my six-week follow-up and hear her say everything looks great.  Go do whatever your body feels like doing.

Feels good to have the air quality decent enough (I check it several times a day) to go for our morning walk.  The treadmill is a luxury I hope to never take for granted.  But there's nothing like a morning walk outside in the sunrise for starting a day off right.  

Good to hear from our older daughter.  I need to be in touch more often.  I get so busy / overwhelmed these days that I neglect the things that ought not to be neglected.

Good that our younger daughter and our grandson made it to the InstaCare the other day.  I hope their recovery goes well and is completed sooner rather than later.  And please:  no bronchitis / pneumonia or any other such complication. 😘

Good that I have confidence that our kids are mostly ok. Everyone cycles through the good/bad/ugly and then back through again.  I'm grateful for good health, for jobs for them all and for hope that they're doing their best.

Good to have the baby blanket for my nephew and his wife finished.  Just have to package it up and get it off in the mail.  My skills are less than my ambitions, but it turned out so soft and pliable. And the little mistakes aren't too obvious.  It might be too old-fashioned for them to use, but I did put my best effort into it so perhaps it'll be ok.

Good to have a few bills taken care of, so very good to have a bit of money coming in.  Not so good to feel inferior to those around us who have so very much more than we do.  But good to be more inclined to contentment than competition. Good to have the vacuuming done and only a little bit of ironing to do.

Not so good that I worry so much about all the people I care about.  I worry about their health, their stability, their hope - you name it, I worry about it.  Worry is one of the few things I am really good at.  Too bad it's not a laudable attribute.

Good to have plans for lunch today.  We had lunch out yesterday on our way home from the U / dr. visit.  Lunch out today and we actually had a burger out earlier in the week.  I keep saying we need to eat healthier and eating out is often not the best option.  But I'll keep at it.

I'm grateful today for a bit of sunshine.  For hope that things will improve, it feels like we've had a bit of bad spell recently with my surgery, The Husband's pneumonia, sick kids, really bad air, no snow (for our water needs this summer) and a host of other things.  I want to feel more chipper about life.