hitch kicks make everything better

I've been out of sorts lately.  And I know why -we've been super busy and stressed, I don't get enough sleep, I haven't been exercising and Brandon went to holland and brought home a bunch of chocolate.  We got these passes to this new gym by my house and I don't like it.  And I cancelled my pass to golds which means I don't have my saturday morning kickboxing time anymore.  my pass was only 10 bucks a month, so really I should have just kept it even though I was only going once a week.  ANYWAY,  i got all grumpy for no reason last night and spatted out at Brandon that I felt crazy and it was his fault I couldn't go to kickboxing any more.  (totally not his fault - he just asked me one day if I had cancelled my membership yet, and I felt guilty that I hadn't so I called and cancelled it that very day).  So to make this kinda pointless story shorter, I got up this morning drove to the gym while I listened to NPR and got my membership back.  And as soon as I stared doing hitch kicks to a dance version of zombie by the cranberries, my whole world tilted and everything seemed right again.  that sounds a little dramatic - but I'm completely for real.

I looked through my blog a little tonight and there aren't very many pictures of clara.  And then I realized I don't take a lot of pictures of clara cause I don't see her very much because she's always at that dang school.  and that makes me really sad.  tonight brandon said good night to his little "book reader" (clara hops into bed and starts reading every night, and I feel sooooo excited for her to be able to jump into that world of book reading because I know how much she will love it.)  Anyway, her response to that was "I do not!!!" because she thought he had called her his little booger eater.  it was pretty funny.

I went to the saturday night session of stake conference tonight and it did just about as much for me as those hitch kicks did.  I am so incredibly grateful for church meetings.  I seriously mean that.  All I have to do is walk into a building and sit down and listen and I can feel the spirit wash over me and lift me and lighten me and strengthen me.  That feels so amazingly lucky to me.