December Daily Day 5

I am linking up with Ali Edwards December Daily.

DEC 5

I had my morning crew this morning.  After we dropped off my #1 Son, we headed for a donut.  The kids were trying to embarrass me.  It was cute.

I worked a little at drawing or zentangle while I waited for my oldest to get out of school.  The little tree on the layout is a doodle. It was part of  the extremely talented Princess Lasertron's Readvent Party.  I am doing some of the prompts.  This one had to do with drawing.

My hubby emailed me a picture of the sunset.  It just so happened that I took a picture of the sunrise.

Readvent Day 5 - Drawing

I am joining Princess Lasertron's Readvent Party.  See prompt above.  I am not an artist.  I do occassionally lick to experiment with zentangle which is basically doodling.  I made some little doodle trees. 

The doodle inside the top tree is hopscotch.  I just colored it in.  I practiced and experimented while waiting for school to get out for #1Son. The second tree zentangle used as garland is echo. It was relaxing and slightly addicting.

ReAdvent Day 2 - Balancing

Check out the prompt at Princess Lasertron ReAdvent Linky Party.

The Top 3 Things I NEED to do TODAY

1. That Puppy really really needs a walk. The trainer was SO right when he said the more exercise they get the better they behave. I guess that goes for people too.  LOL Done -plus the dogs got some play time, too

Tigger and Niki

2. Get those Christmas Boxes down. I had the kids make some snowflakes and I want to hang them up. DONE

3. Watch a movie and snuggle with some kids. Maybe watch ELF and put up our snowflake garland. DONE

Start of Elf Garland

ReAdvent Day 1 - Challenging

Sunrise this Morning

I am going to attempt to do the Princess Lasertron's ReAdvent Series.  I did some of these last year.  The first day is Challenging. 

Challenging could be my middle name.  It has been a difficult challenging year.  My mother in law's breast cancer returned but she beat it.  My son was officially diagnosed with High Functioning Autism.  Our dog of 12 years passed away.  I gained a lot of weight despite my vow to lose 40 by 40.

As I was looking back through my blog archives, I realized I am pretty good at highlighting the positives in my life.  I always say I can't go down the rabbit hole of  rumination.  I have enough people in my life that do that.  It is not to say that occasionally I don't go there. 

My weight is challenging to me and at the beginning of the year I really worked on that but life got in the way.  I know intellectually what I need to do but it is challenging  mentally to say myself, " By eating that, it isn't going to change my emotions."  It is OK to feel mad, angry, lonely. I give myself  permission to feel. I AM GOING TO BE HEALTHIER.  Maybe if I put that out in the universe, I will remember that and strive for healthier.