Life after
Good birthday. I enjoyed going out to eat Saturday night with close friends and family, enjoying the familiar comfort of pasta fagioli and those buttery breadsticks. I was overwhlemed with the gifts I was given-- as we get older and older, our birthdays lose that special magical aspect-- so when it's recreated all of a sudden with jovial friends over dinner, yummy cake and happy singing, and then gifts and cards, it's really really special.
For some reason, some folks got a feeling I was into gardening and building up our landscape. If you include my mother's Christmas gift, I am now the ecstatic owner of $200 in gift cards to Marshall Grain, $20 to Lowe's, and 5 new Pink Lady Indian hawthorne shrubs for the side yard.
Yesterday was my real birthday. I came to work for the first half of the day where Betty brought me a balloon and laid out these beautiful buttery cookies she made for Valentine's Day. I left around 1 pm for another doctor's appointment, went and had more blood taken at Baylor at 3:15, then made it home by 3:45. I took a hot bath and crawled into bed for a nap until Scott got home from work.
At 6:30, Scott took me out for a casual but lovely dinner at La Madeleine by the fireplace. He was offered a job by a new company that afternoon, so we looked over the contract right there at dinner with excitement (35% pay increase! Woo-hoo!). Afterwards, we dropped by Wal-Mart to pick up a new movie to watch at home, 'Australia,' which neither one of us had seen.
Then, with a new sense of freedom thanks to this new job opportunity and my getting regular paychecks plus backpay, we started daydreaming together about what more we wanted to do to the house, walking up and down a few aisles of the store. On the 1st of February, we not only paid all our monthly bills ahead of time, but we were able to put down a big chunk of money towards one of our debts. It's so nice to be able to do more than just make minimum payments (so nice to get paid in full and regularly!).
Ever since Monday, I also feel more and more like I'm getting my life back. Maybe it's selfish. But I can't wait to get out in the yard and work, expand the kitchen, make plans for the house, make plans for me and Scott. Plans that don't yet involve our family expanding. I'm just so happy and relieved this is all finally over...
Oh and my stomach is definitely flatter!! Who knew?
For some reason, some folks got a feeling I was into gardening and building up our landscape. If you include my mother's Christmas gift, I am now the ecstatic owner of $200 in gift cards to Marshall Grain, $20 to Lowe's, and 5 new Pink Lady Indian hawthorne shrubs for the side yard.
Yesterday was my real birthday. I came to work for the first half of the day where Betty brought me a balloon and laid out these beautiful buttery cookies she made for Valentine's Day. I left around 1 pm for another doctor's appointment, went and had more blood taken at Baylor at 3:15, then made it home by 3:45. I took a hot bath and crawled into bed for a nap until Scott got home from work.
At 6:30, Scott took me out for a casual but lovely dinner at La Madeleine by the fireplace. He was offered a job by a new company that afternoon, so we looked over the contract right there at dinner with excitement (35% pay increase! Woo-hoo!). Afterwards, we dropped by Wal-Mart to pick up a new movie to watch at home, 'Australia,' which neither one of us had seen.
Then, with a new sense of freedom thanks to this new job opportunity and my getting regular paychecks plus backpay, we started daydreaming together about what more we wanted to do to the house, walking up and down a few aisles of the store. On the 1st of February, we not only paid all our monthly bills ahead of time, but we were able to put down a big chunk of money towards one of our debts. It's so nice to be able to do more than just make minimum payments (so nice to get paid in full and regularly!).
Ever since Monday, I also feel more and more like I'm getting my life back. Maybe it's selfish. But I can't wait to get out in the yard and work, expand the kitchen, make plans for the house, make plans for me and Scott. Plans that don't yet involve our family expanding. I'm just so happy and relieved this is all finally over...
Oh and my stomach is definitely flatter!! Who knew?