1 Month Well-Blog Check

It's been a little over a month since starting this blog and I have to admit, I'm pretty impressed with myself for not giving up. What's more impressive is that it seems to be working. Even when I'm not thinking about the blog, I find myself consciously trying to cut myself some slack and appreciate things around me.

These last couple of days serve as a good example. Our fridge died on Saturday night. Instead of being angry at our misfortune, Mike and I just shrugged our shoulders and loaded food into storage bins and set them on the back porch. Immediately, this made both of us appreciate winter in the upper mid-west not to mention our good fortune that the fridge went out now instead of six months from now. I will admit that it's been a frustrating few days. Having to go outside in the snow just to make a salad, never mind answer the demands of a growing 4 yr old's hungry belly, has been a quite a hassle. We tried to look at it as camping in our own home. I was even able to convince myself to stay on my newly acquired weight watcher's plan. In the past, a situation like this would have been all the excuse I needed to go off plan and insist on dinner out every night. This time I just made it work. Today the repairman came and was able to fix the fridge with a part that he happened to have right in the truck. He even let G "help" him. And the best part (other than we now have cold food) was that the cost came in $30 under our $200 budget-limit.

Writing this blog has been so helpful that it doesn't even matter if no one reads it. It has been a good way for me to keep myself in check. I had four things on my to-be-improved list: strengthen self-esteem, run more, work on my weight and appreciate life. Okay, I'm still working on number two, but so far so good on the others.

So c'mon, Month 2. Bring it.