To Love or not To Love...

I love it when...

1. I tell my kids, "I'm gonna to get you!" And they giggle, run away, and hold their bums. (Of course I pinch them!)
2. B gets home from work and he wraps me in his arms and gives me a great big kiss. It's Electrifying! (sappy, I know.)
3. I get a close parking space at the grocery store. Especially when I have any number of my 3 kiddos with me and it is butt cold outside. And you know me. Any kind of weather when you have to wear a coat is butt cold.
4. B lets me sleep in on Saturdays. . . until 9ish.
5. I get a package. Even if it's something I ordered and I know what it is.
6. I get comments on my blog. I know people read it. They tell me they do, but the comments are just fun. I don't know why. ???
7. My house is clean!
8. My kids listen and obey... the first time!
9. I workout and I have that after running dizzy spell.
10. Someone calls for a spontaneous game night, dinner, run, invite to chill, movie, ballet, casino... jk. :)
11. My calendar is full and my to-do list is long.
12. I complete and check off everything on my calendar and to-do list. This rarely happens. Oh wait... maybe even never. But I like to see a lot of crossed out stuff... (psst. I even write the things down on my list that I have already done just so I can cross them off. Is that scary to anyone else?)
13. My cupboard is packed.
14. I know that I am on the right path in life.
15. I have that Eternal Perspective. This can be hard sometimes. Especially when my child drops a full bowl of cereal on the ground and it splatters on everything within a 10 foot radius and everyone has to change their clothes, the bowl shatters into a million pieces, and we were supposed to leave in a few minutes. I don't like the saying, "Don't cry over spilled milk." It makes me feel guilty. Oh, and no temple for 8 hours to reclaim that perspective with ease.
16. I don't have to write "Choice Spirit" with a thick, black Sharpee on my kids' or husband's forehead that day. :)
17. I get to see a 'Cinderella Story' in real life.

I DON'T love it when...

1. It's bedtime... ug. The hour long process! But hey, I do love that we have nighttime devotional, sing, read, and cuddle. The other stuff drives me crazy after a long day, but what am I to do?
2. We get calls at inhumane hours of the night from people thinking it's lunch or dinner time. The time different kills me sometimes.
3. People don't have cell phones and I need to reach them.
4. I have to do the dishes... double blah
5. I sound like a broken record. "talk nice, talk nice, talk nice" "try again, try again, try again" "please come here, please come here"
6. I have to talk about why I have the standards that I have. Why I don't drink, why we don't go to parties on Sunday, etc. I don't like making people feel bad or make them feel like I am looking down on them. I know that's a lame excuse, but I just avoid it at all costs.
7. I have to get in a cold car after relaxing in a warm place.
8. You can't find what you are looking for in the grocery store or miss it and have to backtrack 10 miles to get it.
9. Dogs slobber on me. ew.
10. Parents let their really sick kids loose at school, church, or bring them along on their many errands. Leave. Them. Home. They. Are. Sick!
11. I have to shave or pluck my eyebrows.
12. My kids freak out. aka: Have a nuclear meltdown. It makes me want to pull out all my hair and show them what THEY made ME do.
13. I forget something important and I don't have pregnancy to blame it on.
14. Life throws you curve balls.