Sunshine in My Heart

I apologize for being MIA this week.  I know I haven’t really posted since the last LiveDifferent Challenge last Friday.  A few notes about life:  I’m excited about writing for goingtoseminary.com. If you haven’t checked it out, you can humor me by going there and seeing a certain someone’s silly face. 🙂  Secondly, I was accepted as a contributing writer for an online e-zine (this is not a huge deal), where I make a teeny tiny pittance of money whenever ads are clicked surrounding articles I write (basically if people read my articles and click on ads by them I get money).  Anyway, as you all know I write because it’s impossible for me not to write–it’s in my blood.  But it’s also fun to be challenged a little to write different content for different places, possibly be published at least online, and maybe, maybe, even make $2.85 so I can buy a latte. 

So, this week has had some highlights:  Monday I splurged and bought Dutch some clearance rack swim trunks for the summer, and yesterday I got a fun surprise in the mail: a package from my sister-in-(love) containing this killer brown t-shirt that has an I, then a heart, then a recycling symbol.   SHe said it was perfect for her “crunchy sister-in-law” (in Boston people called us “crunchy” because we recycled and ate organic food.  “Are you from Vermont?” they’d ask.)  So this week has been fun.  Jeff’s been home, Dutch has been hilarious (he now says “Whoa!” all the time and picks up chairs to show how strong he is), and we’ve been reading marriage counseling books for a marital/pre-marital counseling summer intensive class we’re taking next week.  (More on that in the next post…Goals vs. Desires)

Tomorrow I have a job interview at for a Community Relations and Development job at Northwest Human Services, a non-profit in Salem.  As Jeff is working 1/2 time, it’d be great to have something else 1/2 time which would equal….yes, that’s right–a real salary!  Woohoo!  🙂  Anyway, things are great here, I wish I had a huge significant spiritual epiphany to share, but I don’t.  I’m just thankful this week for the sweet pleasures of my son saying “Mama”, sitting up in bed playing cards with my husband, a fun day with my friend Megan playing Scrabble (ask her who won), a soaking wet walk in the rain with Janae and Brendon, and some really delicious new meals from Cooking Light (Spiced Korean Beef Rolls –this from the girl who doesn’t like beef! and Thai Noodle Salad – I used chicken because my dad has declared tofu inedible).  That’s all.  It might be raining all week but there is sunshine in my heart (oh my goodness that was cheesy!).  Perhaps it has something to do with our last LiveDifferent Challenge. Could it be?  I think so…