I Choose Half Full!

It's a funny thing about life. It doesn't come without it's challenges. The more I look around, the more I have no interest in trading problems with anyone. One of the things I am most grateful for is a mom who taught me by her example to always see the positive. It has stayed with me. The A/C in Wes' truck broke the other day. My first thought was how lucky we are that it happen right as the weather was breaking. It didn't even occur to me to be mad that it happen at all. (Of course to be fair, I don't have to drive around in it.)

I have also learned to appreciate the "rays of sunshine" in my life. They are rare and beyond valuable as friends. I remember shortly after 9-11 seeing Chris Rock on Leno one night saying that someday as impossible as it seems, we will find humor in this. It sounds almost sacrilegious but the more I thought about it, he is right. Even in our darkest hours, we need to find humor to keep going and keep fighting the good fight.

So in a week when I lost more than a few hours of sleep fretting, here is some much needed comic relief that I found:

I'm so glad to see that we are finally using our food storage. (Not recommended, but Wes did save us a ton of money on a brake job by doing it himself. Thankfully it didn't cost him a severed leg.)
I'm admittedly easily amused, but this was hilarious to me that there is an answer key to Sophie's preschool workbook. (Those are the "big" ones that are circled, in case you weren't sure.)

And finally my biggest smile of the week came from my boys and all their hard work practicing football. Jake had two touchdowns today, one on a pass from DB. This week the have been playing a game where they try to have 100 passes to each other without dropping the football. They are figuring out that that's what it takes to be able to make one pass in a game...and it worked! I'm so proud of them! Even the ref seems taken back by Jake's speed.. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM9II1bJDlU