On Sunday, Mother’s Day, I woke up, stretched, and looked out the window. It was dark. Gloomy. And raining.

This is not a common occurrence around here. We are actually at the north end of a desert that stretches from here to California. Yes, I have complained about SNOW, but in actuality, we do not get a lot of the white stuff. Especially compared to those who live in the prairies, and have to deal with snow up to the roof line.

I. Would. Die.

Our snow pack is almost non-existent and we are on very strict water restrictions.

We need the rain. I get that.

I, however, need the SUN. A cold and dreary day can put me in a funk in the skip of a heartbeat. But a sunny day? No grumpiness allowed. Or even POSSIBLE. Sun = Happy.

So my Mother’s Day started off on the wrong foot. Or wrong weather pattern. Whatever. I did not get breakfast in bed, but I did not expect as much. I am a woman who loves routine, and who loves her daily breakfast of oatmeal and a latte. Honey could have made it for me but he would likely bung it up. That would have thrown my entire day into a terrifying tailspin. I made my own breakfast to save us all from the aftermath of the drama.

After I ate, I was handed a card (That Honey MADE! With my stamping stuff! Creative…or frugal? YOU DECIDE.), and then he headed outside to “get my present”. Soon after, I was presented with some wildflowers from the hill behind our house, a “flower” that Graham had made at school, a gift certificate for a manicure and a pedicure (Woo!), and a postcard that G’s Kindergarten class had sent last week during their trip to the Post Office.

It reads, “Mommy, I love you like the Planet Earth“. Good thing he did not say I looked like the Planet Earth.

It was time to get ready for church and I was grumpy. I had visualized a warm, sunny day. I would wear a pretty pink skirt with a white top and white strappy heels. I would skip and frolic through the wildflowers (Go ahead and visualize it. I am. It’s pretty funny.). The hoopla about Mother’s Day makes it to be this grand event, with sunshine and tulips and leaping. Reality was nothing like the TV. Shocking, I know.

Instead of frolicking through the tulips, I thought I should “spring clean” my closet. Hence, my “fat day“. Bah. (Thanks, though, for your sweet comments and emails.)

Monday morning was more of the same. Grey, cold, and damp. I dislike that word, but not as much as I hate “moist“. Ewww.

Graham woke up with a hacking cough and a nose full of snot, to complement the snot pouring from his siblings’ noses. I kept him home from school, despite the fact that the dude was far more energetic than I have been in about ten years. I don’t like to infect other peoples’ children. By mid-morning the hacking had ceased so I took all three kids to the grocery store, which helped my mood. That is if by “helped” you mean “made me want to tear out my hair”.

Ahem.

(I’m exaggerating. The kids are always good, they just don’t. Stop. MOVING.)

I worked for couple of hours and got caught up on my contract work. I wanted desperately to give Honey a break from Daddy Daycare. Between Accounting work and Photography gigs, he has been pulling overtime. He needed a break. I also needed a break from the blasted weather. Turns out? We BOTH won.

The sun started to peek between some puffy white clouds and I thought a walk would be fun. Except I had all three kids to deal with. We tried to see if they could all fit in the jogging stroller.

Yeah, NOT SO MUCH.

We opted to go to the park at the lake instead. It was early afternoon and in direct sunlight, which is not the best for photos. I did not have my external flash with me, but I tried to do the best I could by manipulating the the metering and the built-in flash (Hmmm…a future Foto Friday post?).

Do you see that long line of drool hanging from her lip? BLASTED EYETEETH.

On the water.

On the monkey bars.

Climbing.

On top of the jungle gym.

While at boot camp last night I reflected (Between shouts of “Right Basic! Left Basic! Repeater Knee!“) on the pensive mood I had been in. Part of was due to the weather, yes, but then I counted backwards in my head.  Every twenty-eight to thirty-five days my body does this cyclical thing, if you know what I am saying.  It has been almost thirty-five days.  The cycle is imminent.  Talk about an Aha! moment.

I surveyed the women in my class. There are a wide array of shapes and body types that belong to the women who were jumping, kicking, and crunching right along with me. Every single one of them is beautiful because they have chosen to work hard to make their body the best that it can be.

Which is what both Matthew and I are doing, and what we want to teach all three of our kids to do.  We feed them home-cooked meals, we exercise with them, we tell them all day long how beautiful they are.  We want to teach them health, as well as balance, which includes the occasional ice cream cone on a sunny day.

I think we are on the right track.

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