Yea Sam!!

The middle school sent home report cards today. For the first time in years Sam is not in trouble or grounded on report card day!!!! That's for a variety of reasons - you could call it compromise I suppose. He brought most of his grades up or kept them in a reasonable place. I relaxed my standards a bit. I still think he's capable of straight A's...but I will now happily accept B's, and C's will earn him NO PRAISE, but no punishment either. So, we are all feeling pretty good about his report this time around and I am relieved that I do not have to take away his iPod :)!!

Done with my work out for today : 400 Crunches and 30 Minutes on the Treadmill. I decided to save my last 15 minutes of the week (elliptical) for tomorrow or Saturday...the idea of not doing it for 3 days in a row make makes me a little apprehensive. I'm afraid I'll give up on it after a lull that long, so I'm going to break it up more in the future.

The kids are out of school AGAIN tomorrow ~ ridiculous I know. They are all happy that they get another 3 day weekend...and I am happy that Jon took the day off to stay home with them and I get to go to work!!! That one day restores my sanity a little. I know that I do useful things everyday for my family...for some reason it just doesn't always feel like a valuable contribution. Maybe because my purpose in life is to show Jesus to people and it's easy to fail in front of people you're around all the time. A bit easier to show Him in little spurts to people who come and go quickly. Pathetic I know, but hey, I'm still a child in my Christian walk. Jesus has his work cut out for Him in me!!