11/21/2106
Today I am grateful for the weekend I spent with my parents, my Grandma Green and Ed, My cousin Mellisa and EJ and their kids, my Brother Matt and his girlfriend and her kids, Lou and Misty, Jake, Lane and of course my amazing family.
11/22/2016
Today I am grateful for the snow and the changing seasons. The snow is beautiful on the trees it covers the ground in a soft blanket and provides needed moisture to the ground beneath. I can put on a warm coat, a stocking cap, boots and gloves, go outside and shovel snow. It is peaceful, dark and crisp and I feel alone with nature. I love the sound me feet make when its really cold and the sound of the snow shovel scraping against the concrete. The truck is warm and the haeter blows it's extra hot air on my face and I am comfortable and calm as I drive my kids to school and myself to work.
Monday, November 21, 2016
Day 2
My goal for this blog will be to write for 15 minutes each day. There will be no other goal than that.
This weekend my family and I traveled to Lander to celebrate thanksgiving a bit early. We were able to meet my brother's new girlfriend and her four kids. She has kids that are pretty close to the same age as my kids so it was fun to see how they would get along with each other. I was also curious to see how my brother was around her kids.
We left Casper around 10am and after a stop at Starbucks to fill Shannon's cravings for white chocolate Mochas, we were on our way. The trip was pretty uneventful. One thing I do remember was once on the trip Shannon and I had stopped talking about the random things we typically talk about and I put in a headphone so I could try to get through one of the many books on tape that I have started here in the last few months. The current book I'm listening to is called 10% happier. I'm loving it. Mike Evers our company president at WWC recommended it based on a book that I'm reading by Eckhart Tolle. I was into my book and it appeared that Shannon was sleeping. Well, she wasn't quite asleep and she had stopped talking to me because she noticed I put in my headphone. After she accused me of not wanting to talk I got a bit defensive and a bit of my ego kicked in. I was sure that she had been either sleeping or on her phone looking at Facebook and I wasn't about to admit that it was my fault our conversation had stopped. So I tried to argue my point but it wasn't worth the battle and we both let it go. I'm not real sure how I can handle this situation in the future. I wonder if to be present in that situation I shouldn't consume any material on my own. I think that when a family is on a trip like this we should just always be open to some kind of conversation. If that isn't happening it might be nice to just take in the quietness and energy from everyone being so close.
Brayden had a sort of breakthrough on this trip as well. It was a sort of coming out of his shell. More on that tomorrow.
This weekend my family and I traveled to Lander to celebrate thanksgiving a bit early. We were able to meet my brother's new girlfriend and her four kids. She has kids that are pretty close to the same age as my kids so it was fun to see how they would get along with each other. I was also curious to see how my brother was around her kids.
We left Casper around 10am and after a stop at Starbucks to fill Shannon's cravings for white chocolate Mochas, we were on our way. The trip was pretty uneventful. One thing I do remember was once on the trip Shannon and I had stopped talking about the random things we typically talk about and I put in a headphone so I could try to get through one of the many books on tape that I have started here in the last few months. The current book I'm listening to is called 10% happier. I'm loving it. Mike Evers our company president at WWC recommended it based on a book that I'm reading by Eckhart Tolle. I was into my book and it appeared that Shannon was sleeping. Well, she wasn't quite asleep and she had stopped talking to me because she noticed I put in my headphone. After she accused me of not wanting to talk I got a bit defensive and a bit of my ego kicked in. I was sure that she had been either sleeping or on her phone looking at Facebook and I wasn't about to admit that it was my fault our conversation had stopped. So I tried to argue my point but it wasn't worth the battle and we both let it go. I'm not real sure how I can handle this situation in the future. I wonder if to be present in that situation I shouldn't consume any material on my own. I think that when a family is on a trip like this we should just always be open to some kind of conversation. If that isn't happening it might be nice to just take in the quietness and energy from everyone being so close.
Brayden had a sort of breakthrough on this trip as well. It was a sort of coming out of his shell. More on that tomorrow.
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