The past couple days!

Hi ladies!

I’d like to thank you all for your kind words on my previous post. It means a lot to know my family is in your thoughts and prayers and I know my cousins are especially thankful. Your comments and the sweet emails I’ve received have helped brighten my week.

This week has flown by and I am very grateful for that. How can it really be Thursday already? I think if I had a four day week every week I would get so much more accomplished and be much more rested.

Tuesday I left work at exactly the time teachers can leave – not one minute later. I came straight home, loved on this sweet dog, and poured myself a glass of wine.

Corey made spaghetti meat sauce for dinner and I ate a quarter of an Italian baguette. No judgement, please. I had time to talk with my mom and check in with my grandmother and they are both handling things as best as can be expected. Then, I forced Corey to watch last week’s Private Practice online with me and we went to bed early.

Yesterday, Corey had a work dinner so I headed home with the intention of going to the gym and picking up on my routine. Instead, I ate leftovers from the yummy rosemary roasted chicken I made on Monday and sulked on the couch. (And ate another quarter of the baguette.) I searched for plane tickets to fly home for the funeral this weekend then sulked some more when I found that even with the credit offered for bereavement, the lowest far was $800. Instead of going to the gym, I played on Pinterest and found these motivational quotes:

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I’ll be returning to the gym tomorrow. Obviously. 

Amidst my sulking the buzzer rang and a few minutes later I opened the door to find these:

 With this sweet note:

In case you cannot read it, it says, “10 more months. I love you, Corey.” This reminded me that while this is a sad time for my family, I will be married in ten months! This brightened my spirits and gave me some energy to clean our apartment, put a load of laundry in, and paint my nails. I decided to use:

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My current favorite for fall is Lady Like, but I also love the bright purplish-pink of Big Spender by Essie. I did my toes too and I’m really loving this color. It feels so perfect for fall!

I’m looking forward to girls’ night tonight with my friends. A great pick me up at the end of a stressful week.

Happy Thursday girls!