Quick Takes Friday

1. About my Wordless Wednesday post, let me splain something to you.  I went to a homeschool seminar a couple months ago, and the lady giving the talk explained that God gave her a microwave and a crock-pot for her first two children.  The microwave child did everything fast but produced shabby work.  While the crock-pot child took FOREVER to do anything but had great work.  I have determined that Logan is my crock-pot child.  He does nothing fast...except run to play an electronic, which I am not happy to admit.  He will draw a whole battle scene on his math page before he even notices number 1.  It.drives.me.crazy.  Rory is my microwave child.  She finishes everything at super speed whether she understands it or not.  I have to be on the ball of checking everything of hers right when she's done because half the time she doesn't read the directions and just writes something down thinking I'll take a gander and that's it.  Sometimes she gets away with it.  So if those two are the microwave and crock-pot, you're probably wondering what Kaelyn and Marley are?  Pressure cookers.  Kaelyn waits until the last minute to do anything and then explodes to get it done.  I don't know if Marley's that way, but she has the exploding part down.  
2. My living room is coming along nicely.  We now have pillows that are a matching blue to the ottoman and rug.  It's hard to explain, but I think it looks good, and the designer friend does too.  We still haven't painted.  This week's weather would've been perfect, but I couldn't pull it off.  
3. Chemo went really well on Friday.  It was the smoothest it's ever gone.  I don't know what it is, but I think we're just into a groove and know what works.  We also have our chemo traditions which include Fritos and Diet Coke (which will be changing since I'm off sodas) and Chick-Fil-A on the way home.  I don't know how those got started, but I do feel a little bad about snacking on bad food like Fritos when everyone else has almonds and healthy snacks.  The nurse even commented on my healthy snack of almonds on Friday which made it worse that I still had the Fritos and soda too.  She did say that some people were bringing in MacDonalds and eating it there.  I think that would make me sick...or more sick.
4. I have still not decided on quitting Thirty-One or Carmel.  I think my decision is getting more clear on Thirty-One, but I want to make sure before I say anything.  
5. I had a GREAT day on Tuesday.  Seriously...it was a pretty awesome day.  We got school and chores done.  I made pancakes for breakfast AND cleaned it all up.  (Kevin normally ends up cleaning up my messes in the kitchen)  It was a beautiful day, so the kids and I spent the afternoon at the park, hence the monkey bars videos.  And I ended the day at the gym with my two favorite classes.  The kids had good days too which always helps.  I'm grateful that I was so aware of my good day that I could shoot little thank you notes to God all day long.
6. I contribute my good days and experiences to my "showing up" for God.  Part of my Carmelite Aspirancy is to read the Liturgy of the Hours every day.  More specifically I'm to do my morning prayers, half hour meditation, and evening prayers.  I have been having trouble with this, so for the past couple weeks, I've been setting my alarm an hour early.  I do my morning prayers, and I was sending a half hour with Jesus, but then my hair happened.  Now I do my morning prayers, spend as much time as I can meditating until I have to do my hair, and then finish up the meditation some other time during the day.  The goal is to do the 30 minutes all at once.  If I didn't hit snooze the first couple times the alarm went off I could do that, but I've been pretty tired.  I'll probably get back to it next week when I'm back to "normal".  It's just helping.  I can't explain it.
7. I'm still workin' the curly hair.  I named it Mufasa, since I look like a lion with it.  In case you don't speak children movies, Mufasa is the lion king in the movie Lion King.  There's a part in the movie where a hyena shutters when the other hyenas say the name Mufasa.  So whenever I say it, Kevin shutters.  It's pretty funny.  I have to wet and scrunch it every morning.  It's annoying.  Then it dries and I put it in a pony tail...still.  I like all the corkscrew curls that come down.  Yes, I actually said I liked something about my hair.  KU-RAZY.  I'm getting used to it and feeling like a weather meter.  If I walk outside and it poofs, it's humid.  One day I'll be able to look back at it and laugh.  Today is just not that day.