Did you notice that things here on my blog have been a bit slow lately?  It is because my life outside of blogland has been anything but slow.  In the words of my sister, "Sometimes life is like a marathon, sometimes it is like a sprint, but recently it feels like I am sprinting a marathon".

Here are a few bullet points to hold you over until I can compose a real post...

• I am working on getting up earlier in the mornings.  I like to have slower mornings and not feel like I am rushing around in a frantic state.  Eventually, I'd like to get up at 5 but 5:30-5:45 is the best I can do right now.
• My television watching has really slowed lately too.  I'm not watching American Idol or Biggest Loser but I am planning on watching Survivor.  Anyone else planning on it?
• I'm looking forward to the Olympics.  I have always loved the Olympics.  If I could choose one winter sport to be an Olympic athlete in, I would totally want to be a speed skater.
• I love my  Google Reader.  But when life gets busy, I'm guilty of reading all the blogs in my reader and rarely clicking through to comment.  Do you feel like reading in a reader is a deterrent to commenting?

Happy Wednesday to you all!

Post-It Note Prayers

This mom is on my heart in a real big way.  I'm praying for Lisa as she battles cancer.  I've got Lisa's name written in purple sharpie marker, on a yellow sticky-note, stuck to my bathroom mirror.  Every time I see her name there on my mirror I take time to pray for her.

Will you join me in praying for Lisa?

And if you could use some prayer too, please let me know.  I would be honored to write your name on a sticky-note and plaster it on my bathroom mirror right next to Lisa's.

How would you like to win $100?  Yeah, I'd like it too.  Go check out Sharon's blog for your chance to win. I thought about trying to keep this giveaway a secret in hopes of increasing my chances of winning.  But, I'm working on being a more generous person, so I decided to go ahead and share it with you.  Because I'm nice like that; it's just how I roll.

Go ahead, go enter.

Fab Forty Update

I thought it about time to give y'all a little update on my '40 Things in My 40th Year' list.  If I've got my math right, I figure I need to be crossing off about 3.3 items off my list each month if I plan on having them all checked off at the end of the 12 month time frame.
And now that the month of January is over (can you believe we are already in the 2nd month of 2010?) it is time to evaluate my progress.  I'm a bit disappointed to say that I don't get to check off any items on my list...none, nada, nothing, zilch-o, a big fat ZERO.  It isn't that I didn't do a few things; it is just that I put several things on my list that were multi-parters.  You know, things I want to do more than once, or things I want to do once every month.  
So, the way I'm figuring it, I'm way behind.  And for a girl who loves to check things off a list it is a real bummer to come to the end of the first month and not get to make any check marks.  I love to check things off so much that I'm known to actually add something to my list after I have completed it just so I can cross it off. 
Let me tell you what I did do this last month...

• I went to physical therapy recently, and for the first time since my knee surgery they put me on a exercise bike for a few minutes.  I rode 2.5 miles.  2.5 miles down, 397.5 to go.
• I went on 1 date with my hubby...dinner and a movie.
• My goal is to do 1 girlfriend get-together every month.  January held 2 girlfriend get-togethers for me!  So fun!
• I'm working on being more hospitable again.  It is something I used to do real regularly, but then life got kinda crazy and I let the whole hospitality thing slip in a big way.  In January, we invited friends over one evening, and I really enjoyed it.
• My list included giving away $40 every month and also doing some random acts of kindness.  I kinda feel funny talking about these things so rather than telling you what I did, I will just let you know that I did giveaway the money and I did 1 random act of kindness.  And I really enjoyed doing it.
• I also did one giveaway on my blog...3 more to go.

How did your January go?  Did it seem to fly by like mine did?

Guess Who

Guess who is 10 months old?

Guess who started walking?  It is the cutest little bundle of wobbliness ever!

Guess who has learned the sign language sign for more?  Now between bites in the high chair, he signs for more rather than blurting out an impatient yell. 

Guess who loves his Grandpa?  When his grandpa leaves the room, or if his grandma wants to hold him while his grandpa is within view, this little someone throws a big ol’ fit.

Did you guess…

my grandson?

If you did, then you are absolutely correct!  And it is all so cute!  Well, except that part about him liking his grandpa more than his grandma, that is not so cute.