I was gone last week on business, and I expected to have the perfect environment to do some blogging. Used to be, all I needed was a quiet hotel room alone and I could write up a storm. Last week, not so much. For one thing, I was unbelievably tired and that was the most comfortable mattress I’ve slept on since the hubby’s old waterbed. Second, I was doing a lot of reading. Only made it down to the fitness center once, but I did work out that one time! That said, the day we all walked over to and all over one of the other buildings, I definitely got a workout particularly on the stairs.

Right now I am reading a book my best friend gave me about 10 years ago when our marriages were falling apart. Well, actually, she was going through a nasty divorce and I can’t remember if I had asked the hubby to leave yet or not. (He didn’t leave and we managed to work through our issues and have a much better marriage now than ever.) Anyway, this was the point in our lives (my best friend and I) that we put aside our “religious” differences (she’s Catholic and I’m Baptist, so you can imagine we had some major differences, which was why we stopped discussing “religion” while still in high school), and focused instead on what we agreed on. She sent me a Max Lucado book (No Wonder They Call Him The Savior) because she had been reading his books and loved them. Only I never finished it. Shame too, because it is a very easy book to read.

…here’s a post.

LOL

So anyway, the hubby and kids have been gone to youth camp (hubby chaperoned) all week, and got back today. I have so not realized just how much they do around the house when until I was doing it all myself. Granted, I was only cooking and cleaning for one, but I still had to take care of the 6 dogs and 2 cats on top of it.

Oh, and yeah, Mittens is back. She came back extremely skinny while I was on vacation.