#4 and #5

Day #4

It was actually a tough one for me. ha. somehow, i ended up making the whole day about me. oops. but you know, you have to have those sort of days once in a while. i did manage to sneak my NICE into the day. the day started out good. i was on a mission to get my bottom (which is significantly bigger than i enjoy right now) back into the gym. i was cleared from my dr. on tue to go back to normal life. my c-section is healed nicely, i'm feeling less sore and am good to go. so, friday morning i get the kids up and ready for school and then i'm off to the gym. i'm working on dumping the left over baby pounds that i'm hanging onto and hopefully a few that i should have dumped off prior to getting pregnant with twins. anyhow, the gym went well. i was there for an hour and a half and gave my self a nice little workout. after that, i stopped by the always lovely sister-in-laws and had a mini-visit with her and Ethan. after that i got home folded 2 loads of laundry and sat in the hot tub for almost an hour. see- i told you the day was about me. anyhow, after that i showered up and straightened my hair. i had a date with friends of mine and a much missed friend mr. miller lite. kids got home, did the norm. later, i made dinner (what i wanted to eat) and squeezed myself into my pre-pregnancy jeans. i know i would have looked better in my "just pregnant" jeans but it was the principal. i was going out for the first time in almost a year and i was wearing regular ol' jeans darn it. kissed the hubby and kids good-bye and went to pam and dave’s before going to see machine gun joe in neenah. while up in neenah dancin' my ass off (hopefully- literally!)i realize i have yet to do my NICE act. so, sure, it wasn't a huge one... but i bought the next 2 pitchers of beer. i then decide to buy a t-shirt to support the band, which i normally don't purchase band shirts so that's nice too. i bought another pitcher to share with some other pals and make myself feel okay about being nice. so, nothing profoundly wonderful, but NICE none the less! And I feel good knowing I have nice friends that invited me and got me out the house. Thanks Pam!


Day #5

today’s NICE act was double wonderful. this is one of those things that being nice to someone makes you feel so good. i spent a day alone with my daughter. no dad, no brother, no boy interferance. just good mom/daughter time. on top of that i did what she wanted to do. (usually not what i pick to do) again, easy enough but not done often enough. just prior to the girl day. i dropped kjg off at his friends. (dad was at work) on the way home i thought to myself we could do another small act of NICe. imade an unexpected visit that i usually don't make to my mother-in-laws house. she doesn't visit us or call us too often and i thought, hmm- i'll be the one to do it this time. so, hgg and i sat at grandma's and chatted for about an hour. nothing big but i know she appreciated it and hgg like it. so, we leave there and head out to a big girl lunch. hgg picked applebee's for some huge chicken cesar salads and an appetizer. :) who knew this was such a great thing. she loves the idea of appetizers which we normally don't do. food was good. she figured out the tip. (just taught her a bit ago to find the tax and multiply it by 3)after that i took her shopping. now, this is what i call NICE! i don't like to shop in general and unless i have a specific item i'm going to get i don't want to just brows clothing. on top of this...IF i were to be interested in this the very last place i'd enjoy doing this at is fleet farm. ha. but, it's my girl's time to reap the benefits of me trying to be NICE. so, off to fleet farm. we spend what seems like hours browsing through racks of john deere shirts, sweatshirts and pants, and then another forever reading the funny slogans on all the farm girl brand tops. after finding 2 suitable shirts for her. (one is brown john deere that reads in pick camo lettering- "Farm Coutour" and a orange farm girl shirt that says over and under a beautiful sunsetty sort of picture full of corn stalks and a farm siloet- "No farmer's tan?...You ain't my man!" we head to the dog section. my farm lovin' daughter has an unquenchable thirst for dog clothes. poor lola owns more outfits than i do. now with the new pup, there is a need for mini-mini clothes. i finally talk her down to only 2 items in this area also. 1 extra tiny colar for nora (which is only a 5" baby blue super thin strap of leather)and a colman mini sleeping bag. i do think normal little girls purchase these to take a beautiful barbie camping with them, but my daughter is using it as a sleeping bag for a boston puppy. it's actually pretty cute! i'll admit it. anyhow, that was my NICE. oh, i even let her go coat free. it was 47degrees and i would normally say you still need a jacket, but it made her day, and no harm was done. i do need to relax sometimes.
So, yesterdays act of NICE helped my heart too. After lunch hgg decided that we should do a mom/daughter lunch once a month. we also want to invite other mom/daughter duos. hgg is helping me to make up an invite/schedule to send out to some friends. spread the fun onto others. *she naturally wants to pass the NICE to others. xoxox