We get to spend the day together. No babysitters. No school work. No daddy. What kind of adventures shall we have today? I think it may start with the purchase of some O friendly art supplies.

I realize it is nuts that we haven’t had a dump of snow before now, but did you seriously have to come today? Even though I left bright and early to get to my first class of the semester, an hour and a half drive turned into three and a half hours. All in snow. All in first or second gear. Bumper to bumper. There go the positive results of that massage from Wednesday! So in two weeks time can you hold off on the flurries? That would be great. I don’t want a repeat of today thank you very much.

Laying in bed, eating a turkey sub after the best massage ever in the middle of the afternoon. This is pretty much amazing.

I had an afternoon nap yesterday. I know, shocking. It was the most splendid thing ever. This time away at Blue Mountain is turning out to be very refreshing. Hopefully there will be a spa experience later today- a cherry on top of the ice cream sundae that this week is. Huzzah!

It has been a long day and I’m too tired to type out all the details but today we ended up in emerge and Owen had surgery on his left pinky because of a door I closed on it. I still am in shock and have to confess that Owen is taking things better than me. I am continuing to battle the guilt that has come with this and the fear that when ever I look at my son I may see a slightly amputated finger. Right now we are madly praying for divine healing. And I am trying to forgive myself. Such an incredibly hard thing to do as we wait and wait to see how his finger heals. I am surrounded by ‘what ifs’ and shame. I am trying to let go and realise that burden but the event keeps haunting me. Perhaps my word of the year will be ‘Grace’ as that’s what I so desperately need right now.

I’ve been thinking about setting personal goals for the year. I don’t normally do that but one of my fave blogs linked to this site called One Word. The purpose is for ppl to concentrate on one key word that they want to develop in their character over the year. That has got me thinking and I would like to choose something for myself. Right now I’m leaning towards ‘humility’ or ‘self control’. I need to think about it a little bit more. Also I’ve set the goal of reading 60 books again on goodreads.com. I think I’m going to continue to push myself to read things I normally wouldn’t pick up like autobiographies. (that being said if you’ve read anything lately that you enjoyed please let me know!) My biggest goal is to graduate with an MTS by August. I am going to frame that stupid degree and put it in a place where everyone can see it. At all times. Have any of you set any goals for yourself?