1. Only 3 more weeks until we’re with our extended family! Cannot wait!

2. USA winning last Wednesday and making it into the Round of 16 in the World Cup! USA USA USA! Hope they beat Ghana tomorrow to keep the dream alive!

3. Possible team sponsorship for Caelie’s team from a local bar! Fingers crossed!

4. Spending quality time with my older 2 kids yesterday at the beach. My brother was supposed to go with us but that didn’t happen. That’s a post in and of itself!

5. One of my good friends is finally done cleaning and decluttering her house and is rejoining the world of the living!!!

1. Soccer tryouts almost over – 2 more nights. Been up there every night this week since Tuesday night!

2. A “last lunch” with friends today (kind of like a “last supper”) since school gets out next Wednesday.

3. My mom calling and saying she’s coming next week for a few days and then will be taking one of the kids back with her for their “week with Nana and Pop”.

4. Once soccer tryouts are done and we have the meetings next week we will be done with soccer (and even tennis) until the end of July!!!! Looking forward to a much needed break!

5. Being able to spend those days alone with each kid last week at Busch Gardens. It meant alot to each of them I know and it meant alot to me too.

1. Going to lunch today with a friend.

2. Fun night tonight planned up at the fields – soccer conditioning for the kids, then an adult soccer game where Sean and our neighbor are playing in and we (plus neighbors gf – who I haven’t seen in too long a time) get to watch.

3. Only 13 more days of school left!

4. Both my older 2 kids have been tested for advanced math this past spring for next school year. Fingers crossed!

5. Soccer tryouts are in just over a week and then we can take some time off from soccer!

SO many things to be thankful for this week!

1. Finally had dinner with a great friend Tuesday night. Found a new beer for the summer (Landshark with lime in it), got to catch up with what’s going on in each others lives and had lots of laughs (as usual). Love you girlie!!! Bowling night a must!

2. Finally watched Sex And The City the movie (the 1st one) with a friend on Wednesday. About 15 of us ladies are going out that Friday that the new movie comes out to see it and then have a night on the town. So my friend and I had to be prepared.

3. Sean is now getting paid to coach!!!! Yay!!!! It will help us out immensely with 3 kids playing competitive soccer. It will almost pay for all 3.

4. Sean is going to be the coach of Caelie’s team next season and it’s going to be awesome. So many parents from her team have emailed me, called me or said to us face to face how much they appreciate him and everything we do for the club. You don’t know how much that meant to both of us!!!!

5. Only 17 more days of school left!!!! Woohoo!!!!

6. This weekend is going to be another fun one. This morning I had muffins with mom at the kids elementary school and met some of Kieran’s friends and their moms who live in our same neighborhood! So he’s now got more neighborhood friends to play with. I’m off in a few minutes to meet some friends for lunch (celebrating one of our friends getting her nurses cert. – or whatever it’s called). Then tomorrow Caelie has a sleepover here and Tristan has a friend coming for the day. Sunday is Kieran’s end of season soccer party. Fun fun!!!!

7. I can’t imagine living anywhere else but Florida!!!! The weather is perfect.

Life is good!!!!!!

SO much to be thankful for this week!

1. Great friends and a fun day Wednesday filled with lunch at a new place, Sangria and lots of laughter! When school was over my friend and her kids came over and the kids played outside. This seems to be coming a regular Wednesday thing.

2. A weekend filled with family, friends and soccer! We will be living on the fields literally all day tomorrow and some of Sunday! All 3 kids are in the same soccer tournament with their competitive soccer teams so we have 6 games tomorrow! And Sean is even coaching a younger girls team (one where we don’t have a kid on it) to help out. So we will be at the fields from 7am until about 8pm! No breaks!!!!! Sunday will be a bit better but not much! Depends if all of their teams make it to the finals on Sunday at 3:30! Wish us luck!

3. Tonight is my last night of working! I made the decision a few weeks back, talked to my supervisor who is AWESOME and who completely understood – moreso then some people I know and are supposed to be friends and I even have the option of going back when I can. After the fact though I found out all the crap that’s been going on with Sean and his job (that he’s been keeping form me because he didn’t want him and his job to be the TOP reason I left mine) and that reinforced my decision to leave. Plus the fact he could be gone most of the next 6 months for work – that was one of the biggies as to why I left in the 1st place.

4. The weather here in Florida has been gorgeous!!!!! SO ready to have weekends of no more soccer (after this one of course) and BBQ’s and friends over!

5. After today only 32 more days of school left!!!! Bring on the summer!!!!!!!!

1. Thankful both Sean and I were able to go to Kieran’s Citizen of the Month breakfast this morning at his school. Caelie’s old 4th grade teacher came just to try and recruit him for her class next year. Which is good because we loved her when Caelie had her!

2. Thankful for the kids elementary school and that we know many of the teachers there (and they all love our kids!)

3. Thankful for my new job – even though I still have days that I’m not sure I can do it. Once I get started in my shift though that all changes and I have so much fun shopping with these people. And I get 3 days off in a row next week (including St. Patty’s Day).

4. Thankful it’s the weekend and we only have 1 kid in a soccer tournament this weekend which means 2 games tomorrow (and they don’t start until 3pm) and 1 definite game on Sunday (which doesn’t start until after 12) and if they win they go onto the final later that day.

5. Thankful for a full week of friends next week – hopefully meeting a good friend for dinner (ahem Jenn), going to a St. Patty’s day party during the day on Wednesday with another friend (and meeting more friends there) and drinking green mimosas, and having lunch with yet another friend on Friday! I feel blessed to have these people in my life!

6. (I know it’s thankful for 5 but I have 6 so there!) Making plans to go to NJ for a week this summer and staying at our extended families house! Cannot wait to see them!

I feel like now that I have a job I can actually say that and mean it. LOL Although once my training is over I’ll no longer be working Monday through Friday – I’ll be all over the week.

So yesterday I did nothing all day. And I so needed it. As I said in a previous post I was feeling a little down. Between no sleep, Aunt Flo coming for a visit and missing my kids I was a bit depressed. And what I found (after reading the AWESOME book Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom) was that I wasn’t letting myself feel emotions that I knew I should be – I kept pushing them down, thinking to myself I had no right to feel that way. And normally I’m one to feel an emotion to the top and in full force and then let it go. But since working this new job I’ve been making myself feel guilty for things like missing the kids bedtimes (which I still at some point get to at least kiss them goodnight. It’s not like our usual 10-15 minutes with each kid, but at least I get that much). Then I kept telling myself before every shift “I don’t think I can do this”. That didn’t help. I was more afraid of getting the bad calls – the ones with the nasty people. And since I’ve been taking live calls every night since last Thursday I’ve only had maybe 2. So I told myself to stop worrying and just have fun. When that call does happen, and I’m sure it will again, deal with it then.

Yesterday was a day for me to mourn in a sense. Not sure if that does make sense to anyone but myself, but it was a day I needed. I literally lay in bed all day reading. I did get up for about an hour, make some banana bread and do some laundry. But for the most part I read the entire book Tuesdays with Morrie. And it was the perfect book for me to read at this time in my life. I’ll go into more detail in another post another time, but I highly recommend this book. Warning – you will need a box of tissues next to you while reading it.

And here’s my thankful for 5 for the week:

1. Being able to talk to my best friends (near or far) about anything and everything. And I talked to them this week which put a smile on my face. Love you gals!!!!! (and you know who you are!)

2. Knowing that even though my bedtime routine with the kids is changing, on the nights that I don’t work we will make them even more special now.

3. My hubby – who supports me through anything and everything and puts up with my bi-polar mood swings!!!

4. My kids who I just adore and put a smile on my face each and every day. I am so proud of them!!!!

5. All kids progress reports came home with flying colors and awards: Tristan can now apply to be in the National Junior Honors Society because his grades are so good; Caelie has her Odyssey of the Mind competition for school tomorrow and has also had her science project chosen to move onto the next round (whatever that may be); and Kieran not only turns 8 tomorrow (which I just realized could also be why I’m so weepy) but was also chosen as Citizen of the Month!!!

I’m glad that after 2 weeks of basically crying everyday I can still find the positive in everything! (And I knew a full moon was upon us – I just knew. If the moon can affect the oceans and the seas and the rivers with it’s pull, you know it HAS to affect us as human beings considering we’re made up mostly of water!!!! I can always tell when it’s going to be a full moon – I feel off.) (Maybe I should start howling-LOL)

I normally do this at the end of the week but decided to do it today instead.

1. My neighbor who came through for me and gave me his desktop computer all souped up for my new job! Thanks!

2. My parents who came down this weekend for the night to give me their 17 inch monitor for my new job. Thanks!

3. My dad and Sean for installing the new microwave we bought a few weeks ago. It’s been 3 months or so without one and I’ve missed it! (And now I keep forgetting we have one again to use – LOL).

4. Tristan’s and Kieran’s report cards came home Friday with flying colors – Tristan has 5 A’s and one B (and made the honor roll again this marking period) and Kieran had all E’s except for 2 S’s! Caelie didn’t get hers because she was home sick. We’ll see hers this afternoon.

5. The weather finally getting back to being Florida weather!!!!! That cold spell sucked!

This week I am thankful for:

1. An old high school friend who out of the blue not only sent me a Christmas card, but also put a Starbucks GC in it as well just for me. It came on a day that was crappy for me so it gave me a huge smile! THANK YOU!!!!!

2. A good friend here who I finally talked to this week after far too long a time of no talking (because of our crazy schedules) who told me she was proud of me for doing something that needed to be done for myself and my family and to stop hurting. No one had said that to me and it made me feel good! THANK YOU!!!!!!

3. My kids who teach me new and exciting things everyday. Everyday is a new adventure with them and I love it!

4. My husband who is always there for me no matter what and loves me unconditionally. And who knows I need a serious break from a few things and is helping me with that! Even going as far as changing my Facebook password so I don’t go on there for a while. One of the things I need a break from.

5. Tomorrow is the kids last soccer game for three whole weeks! YAY!!!!!!!!!!! And last nights practice was the last practice for 2 whole weeks. Yeehaw!

1. Thankful for my new friend and workout partner. I know for a fact that without her there’s no way I would have worked out as much as I did this past week! Today makes #5 of working out! Last night I so didn’t want to do the C25K program, but because I knew she’d be up there at the fields with me, I did it. (And today we might be adding on 2 more friends to workout with us.)

2. Thankful the situation with Tristan’s soccer team has been resolved and Sean and another dad from the team are now co-coaches!

3. Thankful it’s Friday! This week FLEW by!

4. Thankful I will be able to see all 3 of the kids soccer games tomorrow – not so sure about Sunday though.

5. Thankful everything went well last week with Sean’s surgery and he’s doing AWESOME!!!!! Much better then what I expected for what he went through!