Routing to Happy

Were you as tired as I of seeing Anna Karenina's picture on my blog every time you pulled it up? :) Well, I need something fresh. I *am* going to finish that book. As Leonie said in the comments, something about Tolstoy's writing draws me in even though I see her charting her own demise. Sigh.

So... here is something completely different. The picture is of a router, a wireless router at that. (You can tell by the antenna.) You will see why that is up there later in this post.

BTW, this post was inspired by a post by Leonie at her blog.

Happy things that have happened was the theme.

Here are some of mine--


My Happy Thing List

I went to a new personal training class and really
worked out hard. It felt great.

My dh is coming home tonight after being gone on business for 2 weeks.

I have not had to cook really anything
hard for two weeks as both my ds love quesideilias, waffles, fruit, energy bars
and the like. Tonight I did final hurrah and made homeade chicken and dumplings
and they ate them up. There is something about watching a son eat your homeade
food that warms the heart. (Marie Barone, I hear you.)

My 12yosinstalled and troubleshot the new wireless router we got. (See picture above). I was so proud of him. We could not get it to work, but he decided to figure out why and woke me up at midnight to tell me of his success! Yea!

Boys are on target with their reading plan for LOTR.

Met a homeschool friend at Mass yesterday who has been away from Houston for 2 years and is now returning. Boys and I also had a chance to meet our new priest from India.

I had a lovely dinner out with a dear friend and the boys had their own table with her son and we all talked
for hours.

I took my sons and a friend out to Olive Garden for our
traditional birthday lunch of unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks. Three
teen/almost teen boys can eat a lot of breadsticks. I am so happy because we all
talk together and I am included in it all.

I had a 2 hour coffee with my friend I have known since I was 8. If you need dirt on me, call her. We laughedabout how we probably talked about the day we would be middle aged with husbands and kids back when we were 20 really wondering if it would ever be. It is. It be. :)

I have had lovely conversations via blogging and email with my
cyber and long distance friends. I am so blessed.

I ordered a book on creativity and am going to start painting/drawing/artist-ing again.

I have a cheerleader who thinks I am a good artist and is going to make me pursue
it and try to sell note cards on eBay. B and I did some drawing and idea brainstorming on it today.

B and I had fun plotting S's upcoming birthday party and gifts.

We had a lovely dog sit with our new customer last week, several long walks with my boys and she paid promptly! Boys and I had some nice time together.

Realizing my dh will need exclusive use of the office (where the boys
and I spend a lot of time),my boys and I set up a second office in the ex-music room- moving furnitures, leaning out file cabinets and drawers for his use. It looks great!

I don't mind the Houston weather so much, now that I am even more thankful to be
here.

My first born turned 16 this week and is a happy, healthy, smart,
kind and sweet kid. This is true bounty.

That's all for now.

Wow, this router works great. What a talented son I have.