Marshall boss boy

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How to have a good day

Yesterday was a bad day, and here's why: I spent the entire day trying to escape reality. I was plugged into an audiobook I was really enjoying, which should have made for a good day, but dealing with shopping and homework and bedtime were all annoyances. Lets just say I needed an attitude adjustment.

 Today, on the other hand, was a good day. I grounded myself from my favorite distraction and stayed tuned in to life. I stuck  with  my schedule where it  was necessary, working on jobs around the house, but remained flexible too, ditching the Y for a beautiful walk in the woods with Marshall. I was able to get a paperwork problem under control, which I cannot manage while being  preoccupied.
True Marshall ran outside to the dirt pile more than once and needed an outfit change. He smashed his granola bar into the floor, snuck food from the kitchen as I was making dinner, emptied a shampoo bottle onto the bathroom at large, and tried to wipe his own bottom and ran outside stark naked, pleased to show to the world he now had a "tail" (made of toilet paper). But I was able to laugh, because I was THERE!
So, even if today isn't a momentous day, and your biggest accomplishment is that you now have 3" extra counterspace, don't leave that reality to escape to a better place, stick around and make  it a better place!

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Potty Progress

Best thing of the day happened first thing this morning! Marshall woke up with a dry diaper! He let me bribe him to sit on the potty first thing, too. Here he is with his s'mores cookie and chocolate milk at his makeshift breakfast table. He wasn't crazy about me taking this pic, haha.

Arctic Boy

Marshall LOVES the outdoors, never tires of it, and never seems bothered by the cold! He may be bundled up here, but that's only because Mommy wrestled him into some clothes. He can be wearing nothing but a diaper, pop on some snow boots and claim he's ready for the outdoors!

Blanket Pets

My kids are constantly rolling up blankets into "snakes" and tonight I had helped re-roll them enough times that I was ready for a new solution! So we broke into Genevieve's hair pretty bag and gave each of them a rubberband on each end. Then we started getting silly with accessories, adding fancier rubberbands and even some bracelets. They were so glamorous!! They danced for joy and slept with their little blanket snakes all night : )

Book Club

The best thing about today was book club, by far. It was at Stacy Petterson's and I really enjoyed the book she chose, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. At first it started slow for me but it turned out to be an enlightening read. I recommend it!Quotes from the book.