277. Getting compliments on my new hand-me-down calf-high black boots with just enough heel that they're still comfortable, but that I look and feel like a lady.
278. A new hire telling me today that I did a really great job explaining her benefits. She said that she and her husband have been married just over a year, are now entering that stage of life where they need to use their health insurance, and wished that someone in HR at their last jobs had been so informative. How nice it is to feel like I did my job well and that I had fun doing it.
279. Working up a sweat today while pulling files for our once-every-three-years federal Head Start Review. I completely took advantage of the task and did squats every time I had to pull from the lower files. To know that I got activity in during the day rather than melting into my desk chair felt invigorating, especially because I learned last week that sitting at a desk job for 8 hours a day increases the risk of colon cancer alone by 50 percent; I've been pondering that one a lot since last Thursday when I first learned it.
280. Emmy's giving us her first school gift, a homemade Rudolph ornament made out of popsicle sticks, glue-on-eyes, a red nose and string. It was wrapped in a large piece of butcher paper held together at odd ends and sides with stickers. She was supposed to give the gift to Andy and I, but couldn't help herself from opening what she had already wrapped. Her eyes widened and her mouth spread into a smile as she opened what she already knew was in the wrapping, so cute it made me laugh. Then her smile of surprise turned into one of pride as she heard us oooh and ahhh over it and thank her for the gift.
281. Story time with Lily and Molly. Whenever we read stories with Lily in her bed at the end of the night, Molly joins us but lays on the floor at the foot of the bed. When Andy was gone Saturday night, Lily and I thought we would treat Molly (and us), and invite her on the bed for story time.
The rule in the house I grew up in was no dogs allowed upstairs where all the bedrooms were. I have always been against dogs in the bed, or even in the bedroom. After waking up in the middle of the night from Molly while trying to get sleep from a frequent night-waking infant and toddler, we decided that was the end of that. But Lily and Molly have really been bonding so much lately that we thought it might be a nice treat. Just for story time. Just us girls. And then I found out that Andy did the same thing with Lily last night when it was his turn to read stories, so I think this is Molly's new bed for story time.
282. Feeling sore right now from yoga yesterday morning, the kind of sore where I know I did something good for myself.
283. Knowing if I get up from the computer right now, I can be in bed by 10:30pm, my earliest night in longer than I can remember!
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