Marvelous

I don't think the word "marvelous" gets used often enough. ;) 

I'm feeling pretty good this beautiful Monday, so I'm going to use it in my recap of the last few days...

It was MARVELOUS last Friday when I finally made it back to boot camp and was greeted with this marvelous sunrise on my way home from the gym:

(I didn't go to boot camp on Monday or Wednesday on account of the vertigo.) On Wednesday, I finally started thinking straight enough to talk to my audiologist friend who recommended a specific exercise/motion for dealing with the vertigo (see here), which helped! Soooo lovely to be able to think straight again. :) Hooray for friends who are audiologists! (Love you, Molly!)

After boot camp on Friday, then, I got to have a MARVELOUS lunch with these two marvelous ladies:

You wouldn't believe me if I tried to describe the hilarity and sincerity of our time together. Love. :)

And the next day was simply so MARVELOUS that I took my bookends for a walk (Asher was out with Nathan), and we broke up ice around our neighborhood (trying to help it melt quicker and be less bumpy, lol) and then walked to Dairy Queen to treat ourselves to some ice cream. The weather was gorgeous! Along the way, Noah had me take this picture:

He thought it was just marvelous how the water was streaming below the ice. :) (Sidenote: For all that he's a serious teen and such, I love how Noah will often point out small things like this. On another walk not long ago, Noah stopped to point out a woodpecker and the two of us took a few extra minutes to simply toss rocks on the frozen ice. Marvelous. Love those moments!)

And then on Sunday I got to have lunch out with my MARVELOUS husband and run a few errands together. I then headed over to the gym to walk and run on the treadmill while watching the last quarter of the Packers-Seahalks NFL playoff game. (We don't have tv/cable at home.) Wow. What a last quarter, right?! (Plus, I managed more than an hour of treadmill time, so felt pretty good about that, too.)

And today, this MARVELOUS Monday, I managed boot camp and getting all three boys to the dentist (no cavities!) before meeting up with five friends and their kiddos at the park to let the kids run off excess energy and try to catch up some on each other's lives, as we're all in varying states of homeschooling and schooling (having all met while exclusively homeschooling). The weather could have cooperated better (I'm talking to you, wind!) but I really shouldn't complain about a 50+ degree day in January. :) It was MARVELOUS watching all the kids run and play together, even when some of them haven't seen each other in ages.

Feeling so blessed that my younger two still find simply running and playing at the park so very satisfying. :) Also, so very thankful for these women in my life. Even when we can't make regular time to get together, I know they're there and they get it and we're here for each other. MARVELOUS.