Little Victories

The Rainbow Connection

I'm climbing the learning curve with seminary lessons -- prep, teach, evaluate, repeat. I am inching closer to where I want to be and trying to focus on the good instead of getting tangled up in the coulda-shoulda-woulda. Truth be told, I'm feeling a bit less-than awesome about myself in general, so today I am going to indulge in some self-promotion. Feel free to play along at home.

When I took out the trash today (go me!) I noticed the glaring difference between the new A/C unit's trimmed back greenery and the creeping vines that have completely obscured the concrete slab for the old unit. So I got out the kiddie rake and the shears and hacked/dragged the ground cover back to where it belongs. I did this while still in my skirt from this morning. I'm cool like that.

It has been two weeks since The Lice, so I liberated the front room pillows and throws from their trash bag exile. Now the love seat and chair don't have to be ashamed of their nakedness. Sweet. The scandalously bare church pew in the family room is about to receive the same treatment.

One week following the initial tidy, the office is still presentable. Enough.

Thanks to me, the laundry room floor is cleared and you can safely pass through to the garage again.

Three hot pink memo boards are going up in Anna's room today. I will use newspaper cutouts to make sure they are straight. I will do this unaided, with my bare hands. And a hammer.

Tomorrow's seminary lesson is about Noah, so it's animal cookies for the treasure box. I didn't have an appropriately themed gluten-free treat for my celiac friend but then realized Skittles would work -- you know, "taste the rainbow."

I rock.