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Top 10 reasons why working from home in the summer is nearly impossible! 2010

So a year ago, I posted my Top 10 Reasons Why Working From Home in the Summer is Nearly Impossible!

It made sense to start an annual thing since I ran into similar struggles this year. When will I learn...right? 

Here goes:

10. Watching my new grass grow outside my office window

9. Shiny new recycled bottlecap creations

8. Softball/Soccer schedule

7. Nature calling/balancing rock meditation by the river

6. My puppy. (Seriously...could you resist that face)

5. Countless Doctor/Dentist/Orthodontist/Tutoring/Playdate scheduling and ferrying.

4. KID NOISE and interruptions...clear need for better boundries!

3. Downloading apps to my new Samsung Vibrant (and then wrestling it from my kids hands)

2. Bathroom remodel

1. Amazing musical concerts and festivals (ie. Treehouse Point, GreenNote, U. Village Concerts, Summer Meltdown) See Rocky Votalato below...

Wordless Wednesday ~ No words can describe

Life is beautiful!

 
Here is a conversation I had tonight with my 8 year old son before bed:

Peter: Mommy...If you hadn't been born, does that mean I wouldn't be born?

Me: What?

Peter: I mean, if you had never been born does that mean I wouldn't be here?

Me: I guess it does...If I hadn't been born, you wouldn't have been born. just like I wouldn't have been born if my Mom hadn't been born.

Peter: Thank you Mommy.

Me: For what?

Peter: For being born...

SERIOUSLY! How am I not crying right now? Moments like that pull me way out of any funk I could possibly be in and remind me that life is beautiful!

My Heart Hurts...out of the mouths of babes!

Conversation this morning at the breakfast table with my 7 year old...

Pete: My heart hurts.

Mom: Awww, tell me what's going on in that sweet brain of yours.

Pete: It doesn't want my heart to hurt because it's friends with my heart.

Mom: Sweetie, can you eat your cereal?

Pete: My brain is mad at my tummy. My heart, my brain and my tummy are in a fight and won't let food go down.

WOW...i've always said he was deeper than most kids his age but SERIOUSLY?

P.S. tonight he was staring at me and I was like hey silly, what are you looking at and he said, I KID YOU NOT..."Your beautiful eyes Mommy."