oh yeah — i’m still doing my monday miscellany

Thanks to the amazing world of auto-publish I am still posting my miscellany monday post. For those of you wondering why that’s a big deal here’s why.

1 – I am scheduled to have shoulder surgery today at 8:15am. So if you are reading this entry and it is, oh anytime, between 7am CST (when they start prepping me) till about 10:30am CST (when I should be done with the surgery and in recovery) please stop right now and say a little prayer for me. Please?

2 – Originally I thought my surgery was only going to be about 1hour15minutes. When the pre-op nurse called to tell me the times and it was longer I might have panicked. Slightly. After three phone calls {one to my mother, of course} and several conversations I did get it squared away that yes, that’s how long the surgery is set to be. And who says I overreact?

3 – My surgery is set to be at the same Orthopedic Center where Hannah had surgery last Wednesday. When the staff found out that I was coming they were chuckling at me as I scoped out the place. Yes, yes, I did. And I also told Hannah’s post-op nurse, who I liked a great deal, to come find me on Monday morning. Come Tuesday morning I’ll be reading this stack of books next to my bed. Half came from Relevant. 🙂

4 – So yesterday I did some last minute prep work around the house. Laundry, and cleaning, and blog writing and more. And I did hang the Christmas lights outside. I think my neighbors might have thought that I was a bit crazy. Here it had just snowed and it was cold and I was stringing lights. Well, that and the fact that it is supposed to be warm next weekend — which is when I, and everyone else, should probably be hanging those Christmas lights.

5 – Speaking of lights — I spent a good hour trying to save some of those 100 count white lights. They, of course, decided to NOT light so I did the first logical thing. I shook the strand as hard as I could. Then I looked to see if there were any missing bulbs. After checking that I shook the strand again. Then in one last desperate attempt I stood up and shook the strand even harder. Defeat. 100 count strands of light meet the garbage. Ha ha ha.

6 – In the morning I followed Brennan around the yard and snapped some pictures of him playing in the snow.  The first snow is so great. When it snows like this in March my kids all moan and groan. This time? In November? They couldn’t get enough of outside time. All perspective.

7 – Tomorrow I have an awesome giveaway planned. It’s for the cookbook – Living Gluten Free and Dairy Free with French Gourmet Food by Chef Alain Braux. It is the BEST cookbook/guide I have ever read explaining Celiac Disease and Gluten Allergies. Make sure to come back tomorrow — you’ll be able to see pics of some yummy things that I made. And you’ll be able to try out my new giveaway entry thingy – rafflecopter. 🙂

8 – The ABC of Thanks Year 2 will be going live on Wednesday. For those of you that remember — last year I started a simple link up of thanks using the ABC’s as a starting point. I’ll be putting it back up on Wednesday. It’s really easy to do: simply write a list using all the letters and then write one thing you’re thankful for that starts with that letter. Here are the first 4 letters of mine along with a preview of the button you can grab on Wednesday:

I think that’s it. Thanks for the prayers and support over the past months. I’m grateful. And make sure to come back tomorrow to enter the giveaway and then on Wednesday to link up your ABC’s of Thanks.

Oh, and please check out my post at Hip Homeschool Mom’s called Cultivating Intentional Gratitude!

linking up with my sweet sweet friend Carissa.