Today has been a long day! Why does it seem that when I am in public with my kids I feel people do not take me as intelligent as I feel when I was at work. This last week has been a struggle and experienced this through this past week. I have been working on getting our bills lowered per month. This has been an adventure and a lot of work. I researched different car insurance prices. With changing different premiums I was able to lower the bill by $150! I than began to work on our $360 cell phone bill. Yes I know how ridiculous that is. With a little extra money we had in savings we have paid off all the phones. This is where the cell phone companies get people! They say the phone is free.. yes that may be true that you do not have to pay out of pocket that day for it. But what happens is when you get this free new phone you are being billed monthly for it. Paying these phones off early if you can will not save you any amount of money, but will help you lower your monthly payments. I love that when I went into our cell phone carrier the young men there were so confused! They did not understand why I would pay the phones off. I also wanted to use a phone I had bought off Amazon to replace my 13 yr olds phone that has fallen apart. The guy there talked to me as if I had no clue about anything. He was using cell phone terminology as if to talk circles around me. To tell me the phone I had got would work, and than it would not work. I get home and call customer service and researched the phone... and yes it will work. Long story short I got them to get the phone connected. Why though did we have to go through all that? It could of been avoided if I was not being treated as a moron. And then there was today! We need tires for our van, and different shops were giving me different prices and information. Ugh! We spent yes we the 3 yr old and 1 yr old all day at two different shops. I know there are times we get frustrated when we take littles out... and I know I was pretty snippy today. But out of all that there are positive moments. Today my 3 yr old meet a wonderful man, a 75 yr old who used to run a daycare with his wife for 20 yrs. He was sincere and you could tell how sad he was that the daycare was closed. In my chaos and frustration with the way I feel I am treated I was given the opportunity to take a moment and enjoy this man's company while waiting for an oil change. He was so kind he read stories to her. This day is no longer just a long day that was all for nothing! Take time to notice the smaller things and just relax! Time for some chocolate and bed!!

Walk

Today I decided to go for a walk, not that it is a great accomplishment or anything to brag about. I have been SO busy with kids, activities, end of school year push and upcoming surgery.
The walk was great! We walked to the closest park and no I am not keeping track of steps, the kids got to play for an hour. It was refreshing to get out of the house!

The end of school is coming up and yes I have to push the kids to finish and finish well! It seems this last week of school most of them do not want to do anything... why is that? Are they that burned out from school that they cannot make it another 4 days? I will be thankful when school is out as well, but I know 4 more days won't be very long.

I am also trying to figure out how to get my house organized and deep cleaned. I am scheduled for surgery the 31st and I will be down for 2 weeks. I am not saying at all that I do everything in the house... but a majority of it I do, and having someone else come over to not only help with the littles during the day but laundry, and dishes? I am still so far behind in our mounds of laundry! Where did all these cloths come from anyway?

I am brac 2 positive so if you are not sure what that means I have about an 85% chance of getting Ovarian cancer/ and also a high risk for Breast cancer. My surgery will be a complete hysterectomy. I have had one doc suggest to do a double mastectomy... yea that is not an option! So I had my first MRI a few weeks ago, and that was so much better then a mammogram! Okay maybe not that much better, still uncomfortable. I have to remain positive in all this right?

If you can today take a few minutes and get out of your house, office or wherever you are. Enjoy what you have! There is more than just a to do list...