A Lovely Weekend

As I mentioned yesterday I've been looking forward to this weekend.  The chance to see good friends.  To celebrate a dear friend's baby shower.  Greg helped Dad and Mike by bringing the ice machine from Wilmington to Ferguson's.  Found out that my brother Mike and my nephew Tripp just a race!  Seeing my Dad in such a frisky mood is contagious.  The rest of the weekend has been time with my in-laws.  Listening to my father-in-law play a bluesy tune on the guitar.  A nice family walk with the dogs.   We watched Alice in Wonderland  which was vividly portrayed with fantastic characters and costumes.  I felt it lacked the substance of plot that I was craving.  Next we had a delicious family dinner with even more family over for dessert and coffee.

Now we're back in Wilmington (just walked through the door).  I really enjoyed this weekend obviously.  I feel I've been able to experience it in such another level because of my blog.  I've found I'm much more observant and contemplative about what I observe.  For instance, in each segment of my journey from Wilmington, to St. Pauls, to Cary I was able to not only enjoy myself but appreciate/observe the disposition of all my friends and family around me.

I plan to explain this more thoroughly tomorrow.  It's almost 12am and my brain is telling me it is time to go to sleep!

30 Day Challenge completed!

Here we are at the finish line!  Day 30 out of my 30-day blog challenge.  My tendency, that I'm fighting against right now, is to blaze right over this accomplishment.  I've noticed that often I don't stop to properly celebrate the reaching of a goal.  Instead my thoughts rush to the next step.  For instance, I was preparing on how I was going to do justice to a description of my Mom (which I will save for another post soon), remark on some of the comments from last post about Mom (thank you Bustling Butterflies and Niki), and decide/introduce what my plan was going to be from here out in this single blog post.  Then it dawned on me...I've reached my goal.  This should be a celebratory post!

Wooohooo!!!  There is also something else that is even a better reason to celebrate.  My Dad called today with great news from the doctor.  His cancer is contained and will be treatable!  Wait a minute, while we're in the party mood...it's my hubby's birthday tomorrow!  I could go on with this list of wonderful things but I'll stop before I get too excited and can't go to sleep.  It's amazing how your thoughts can totally alter your world.  In the span of a few minutes of writing I have transformed my whole outlook.  I began writing with a bit of apprehension on fitting so many subjects into one post. Once I realized I needed to appreciate the right now... my 30 Day Challenge victory, my Dad's treatable cancer and my sweetheart's birthday, my tune quickly changed.

I need this blog.  It has been more rewarding than I could have ever imagined.  I want you to know that your comments and the fact you read this has touched me in so many ways.  I plan to keep writing about fergitude.  I want this adventure to continue.  I hope to have you beside me in our journey.