I Wish This Was Me

I wish I could just lay around the house and be fed and tended. This guy has been in the same spot on the couch in pretty much the same position for the last three days. Yes, I checked, he is alive.

Be Careful With Your Words - A Lesson for Teachers

The Boy came home from school yesterday with a story about his 5th grade teacher.

Apparently, she is really, really surprised that what she says in class gets back to the parents. She made a statement about "feeling like killing someone" over late homework and one kid ran out of the classroom and went home.

Okay, maybe this kid exaggerated a bit. But how can she not be aware that what she says will be relayed as part of each kid's day?

She says she was being sarcastic. The Boy says she is never scarcastic or even funny, how were they to know?

Life is made up of the every day simple things

One thing I've learned over the years is that happiness is made up of the every day simple things. If you wait until some large event happens to you to be happy, you'll have missed all the small stuff on the ride. You could have been happy every single day. Instead, you're happy upon finally achieving that goal. My guess is that it might even have been an empty feeling.

Here are some of simple things we love:

• Having a toasty house and a favorite blanket on a stormy day.
• A spiderweb covered in dew on the car in the morning.
• The feel of the breeze on our face when the wind kicks up.
• How silly the cat looks carrying a mouse in his mouth while he trots down the street.
• How it feels to beat your time running a mile after practicing.
• The memories we share from seeing the world together on a daily basis. The kind where you say "Remember when when our tow truck ran out of gas?".
• Freshly washed sheets.

Look around you, notice the simple stuff.

Poor Phoebe

We lost our oldest cat this week. Phoebe was 18 years old and loved to mess with cars out in the street. She played this game for 9 years, but lost a match on Tuesday. We miss her dearly.