I’m pretty sure Aaron Rodgers was spot on a couple of years ago when he uttered that now famous phrase, “R-E-L-A-X.” That’s what today has been all about…
Get 10+ hours of sleep… wake up for 10 minutes early to watch a beautiful sunrise and then go back to bed… head out for a leisurely hike that turns out to be 9+ miles… eat a late lunch / early supper… sit around a fire on the side of Lake Superior and read & chill… snuggle on the couch… early bed…
R-E-L-A-X-ing feels great!
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Ahh… life is pretty awesome. I’ve deleted my work email from my phone, moved out of cell coverage, and took the car on ferry ride to an island.
This is the view Becky and I currently have:
Chilling on Lake Superior and listening to the waves with Becky is the music my soul loves to hear. It’s even better now that I’ve unplugged.
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Dominic’s soccer coach has to leave the team due to a military obligation so Becky decided to throw an impromptu soccer party for him and the boys. How impromptu? Like less than three hour notice 🙂 Out of nowhere we were ordering up pizzas and had about a dozen kids and a handful of adults over.
For the next couple of hours there was a lot of fun had by everyone, even some of the parents may have been shooting Nerf guns at each other. 🙂 Between the backyard, playground, basement, treehouse, and living room it was a crazy fast paced great time.
It was pretty much non-stop craziness including Nerf guns and kids running around, but we had a blast! I think I’m speaking for everyone when I say that I am very thankful for Becky putting this impromptu soccer party together on such short notice.
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While there were many things to be thankful for the scene that is currently playing out in our sun room is the one that really warms my heart. Gavin is running for Treasurer in Student Council and is busy making posters to put up to improve his chances of winning. Dominic decided that he would like to help, so the two of them have partnered up to make all of Gavin’s posters tonight so they can be hung up tomorrow.
They’re working together, coaching each other, helping each other, and having fun with each other while putting together some pretty cool looking posters. How awesome of a parent moment is that to see???
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Ahh… Facebook’s “On This Day” daily post… I love how it keeps bringing up my posts from last year to remind me of what I was thankful for 366 days ago (LOL – only I would start something like this on a leap year). Today’s reminder was this:
Between learning to drive on the wrong side of the road to seeing kangaroos everywhere to learning how great a gin and tonic can be to seeing the ocean to touching an octopus to seeing incredible landscapes to everything in between it was an incredible experience that I’m very grateful for! Every time I see the update from the same day last year it makes me smile and brings back a wave of freshly remembered memories.
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Thank you so much to everyone who’s helped to support me in raising money for Kid’s Cup!!!
It has been overwhelming to see such an incredible amount of support from so many people already, and that’s all from within the past week! My heart is warmed when I think about how the lives of many children will be improved by the kindness and giving of so many of my friends and family.
If you would like to help blow the top off of this thermometer and help Kid’s Cup more please check out http://bit.ly/KidsCup2017
Thank you all again so much for your generous help, support and well wishes, they are greatly appreciated!!!
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Sometimes I get this seed of an idea in my brain that just can’t quite grow roots. Not only does it not blossom, but I can’t quite see it through a bit of a fog. I know that it’s there, and I know that it needs to grow, but it’s not quite ready. For seemingly no reason it will appear out of nowhere. The fog lifts, it grows roots, and blossoms into the thing it is supposed to be.
While this is what a chunk of today has looked like in one way or another between an escape room, some great meals, and playing some cards, it was during a brief stint of alone time that an idea started to fill form. While driving alone to move to our next location I had the random spark of insight that got the idea rolling. It lit up the room, burned off the fog and helped reveal the idea to me. During the drive home tomorrow morning I’ll focus on it and make sure it keeps growing.
How crazy is that? Spending a weekend with the guys in which we usually avoid serious conversation I had a random spark of insight on a pretty deep idea, and for that I am thankful!
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Let the awesomeness begin!!!
Happy Birthday Jesse & Rick!!!
Thought it would be prudent to take the pic and make the post before the drinks start 😉
Thanks again Becky for taking care of the boys this weekend!
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I’m not much of a country fan, but as soon as I hear the opening line my shoulders relax and I smile… This song is what we sing to each other when life gets chaotic and one of us gets a little too tightly wound (Becky usually sings to me).
If the life of our family ever became a sitcom I’d put that song in as the theme music in the opening. The opening scene would be a split screen of Becky picking up the boys and running them around while I drive home from work. As soon as I get home the split screens join, I tag in and Becky tags out. The screen then splits again as I rush out to pick up the kids and run around while Becky is either studying or getting things done around the house. Eventually I get home, the screens join up as I sit next to Becky on the couch and we both almost instantly fall asleep. That pretty much sums it up.
Today I’m thankful for this song. It helps me keep my sanity and reminds me to breathe and enjoy the craziness…
Thanks!!!
The weather is awesome, it was a great day, I knocked many things off of my task list, but the thing that is fresh in my brain comes from opening a letter from my 401(k) provider. Sitting on the countertop was my quarterly earnings statement and it contained a lot of good news.
Over the years my investment in the 401 has been helpful in many ways. Before Becky and I were married I wouldn’t have trusted myself to put cash away for the long term. One of my business deals happened only because I was able to pull a loan from my own 401 to use to make the downpayment and I then paid it back over the next five years. There’s a sense of long term stability I have when I see what my potential monthly income is when (if) I finally retire at 65-ish. Everything in that statement makes me smile (at least this month!).
The part that makes me chuckle is thinking back to when my parents told me how much to put in as soon as I was able. They said I wouldn’t notice it when I started contributing, and it was better to start early, so I did. Had it not been for their advice I’d probably have used it for extra beer money or fantasy football wagering back in my early to mid twenties.
Needless to say, I’ll be focused on teaching my boys the same concept… Put as much cash in your 401(k) as soon as you can. Who knows what the future will hold, but for now I can sleep a little easier thinking of the future and all the life that Becky and I want to live when we’re old farts!
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