Just Another Day, Thankfully

Anything I could have possibly done today at home beats the hell out of what I was doing on this day last year. I woke up in my own bed, laying on my stomach. I took a big deep breath. I stood up and walked down the stairs. What a miracle that all is. You do it every single day without ever thinking about what life would be like if you couldn't do it. I am reminding you now to be thankful for it.

Well, I didn't manage to get to the hospital to say hello today. Honestly, I didn't make much of an attempt at all. It crossed my mind and then I figured I better just stay clear of the place. Instead I did all the normal mom stuff. We attempted to grasp the concept of making a pie chart for showing the percentages of time devoted to all of the activities we do each day. Reading was done. Dishes. Laundry. I even sewed troop numbers and various patches onto one brown sash. Somehow we didn't get a whole lot else done. One of Logan's friends was playing hooky from school today due to some scandal over a late field trip form. So he came over to hang out. Then this afternoon I did the hurried freeway jaunt to do the drop off/pick up thing at the troop meeting and burned up an hour with the other two window shopping in the bath and body section, smelling incense and trying out raspberry hand lotion at Whole Foods. All the good stuff.

Posted by gwendolyn on October 28, 2003 at 05:38 PM