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It's back to school busy lately, getting kids stuff ready for school, changing routine, getting kids out the door on time, picked up on time, it gets a lit

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19 years, can you believe its been an entire 19 years. We've been together longer than our entire childhoods. In a way it kinda feels weird how it doesn

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A few weeks back we took a trip back to my family farm and Rhiannon took this amazing picture of the two of us. We all had a great time, it was just a quick af

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Today felt like a busy day. It was a nice day outside so we got a couple of bike rides in. Wyatt and I did a big scooter ride in the day and had a great time

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Today was a pretty great day. Started the day off with a few work meetings with some really positive feedback. Then in the afternoon Rhiannon walked with me t

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15 years. It's been a fantastic 15 year journey that I could have never imagined. I never would have guessed half of our journey that we have been on, but

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Today we opened up the game Skip-Bo for the first time in quite awhile, Ayla is pretty darn good at the game. She really loves playing physical card and board

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Bike rides have been the theme lately. I am really excited that Wyatt has been coming along to many of them lately, and Ayla for a few, but Wyatt usually holds

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Big ride tonight. Dobby has been doing fantastically on the bike, we ended up going on our first big ride outside of our neighborhood. He is progressing so qu

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I am making some progress back on my open source projects. Just this morning I created a plugin that turns a markdown document into a set of slides on a webpag

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Last night I took Dobby for his first bike run, and he absolutely loved it! He was running alongside with a big smile the whole time. We took it nice and easy

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Today Wyatt landed his first front flip on the trampoline to feet. It was quite stumbly, but I've told him all along I count anything that he stays up on,

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Tonight I played power washing simulator with Rhiannon. She was playing with wyatt before he went to bed. When he was sleepy I took over to finish up the fire

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It's been a lot lately, just a lot of everything, but it feels like things are ligthening up. Mostly with Rhiannon's help. I really appreciate all t

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Today I had my first and final physical therapy appointment for my knee. It went really well. I went to one that we really trust, and he was able to asure me t

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Tonight I got to stream and knock out a big feature in a side project that I have really been wanting to knock out. I made my website builder themable sot hat

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Today we got out of the house for a walk around the neighborhood. It feels good to help everyone get back out and active. I can't skate with the kids yet

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Today was mothers day, and it was one of the most chill mother's day we have ever had. We, maybe I should say I, did not go so wild with things. Mom got

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Crutches are gone, whoop whoop! But dang this leg is weak. It's crazy how much strength you loose after 3 weeks of no weight bearing, but also impressive

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Getting back into a rythm. It's been crazy around here with my broken leg, but things are finally finding their way back into a somewhat normal rythm. To

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Whoof It took a hot minute to get this post started, my template engine had a bunch of breaking changes. Today was a therapy day for Wyatt, which can be quite

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I cannot believe that I went nearly an entire month witout posting here, well I am back. Habits are hard to change right, you are either in the flow or not, bu

Gratitude 178

It's Chemo Day once again. And once again the emotional toll is high on everyone. I am not sure what has been going on for the last few months, but I fee

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Getting back into the rythm. It's so interesting how easily a good habit can die. I stopped journeling here for a few days and used that time to prepare

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Made it through another day, everything just feels so busy since the move. Made some great progress though. I had a small window of time to really make some pr

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Not a year goes by where this is not a tough day for her, but every year progress is made. Healing was put on hold for many years, and did not start until she

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What a busy morning today. We got our sink unclogged, Dobby had a follow up Vet apt, and a trainer apt. So glad that our sink is finally fixed and we did not

Gratitude 173

So we started the podcast back up, and it was super fun. Rhiannon and I just recorded a podcast super tired and exhausted, but no excuses we did it, we recorde

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Hooof, what a day... I am so grateful that I am able to have the flexibility I have with work. The kids were just tearing each other apart if left alone at all

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Tonight I got a good fetch session in with Dobby. It was a wild and busy day, but it ended on a very good note. It's quite relaxing to play with him in a

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Today was chemo day, and we made it through. The kids were high energy and kinda building on each other, but overall for a chemo day it went pretty well. Rhia

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Tonight we started a new adventure into Blender. It's something that Wyatt has been asking about for a long time and we finally just did it. I will say t

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Making progress. Today was a very productive day, brand new door handles on 3 doors, and nearly got one of the new ceiling fans up. Maybe tonight we can conti

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Today felt felt a bit like a busy one. It all goes back a few weeks ago to when I was cleaning out and installing washer and dryer. I had pushed the washer in

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Happy Birthday Rhiannon, I love the chill day that we had. Sometimes Birthdays get over hyped the the kids kinda go over board, but today they just did fantast

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This afternoon Wyatt and I went on a big skate throught the neighborhood. He had such a good time he wanted to do a second lap, and another later right at dark

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Today we went on a family walk around the block and met some of the nicest neighbors. I am so grateful that we have a nice neighborhood to take the whole famil

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Do you ever wish that you could just get through to someone, try to get them to understand your side? Right now I would really like to know how to explain to m

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Slowly back into it. After the longest break I have had from work (other than shut downs) in quite awhile I am back at it. It felt really good to know that th

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Today we opened up the house for Dobby, so far he has been pretty confined to his play pen and a few extra areas that were boarded up with boxes. He has done o

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Nearly finished. We have the keys to our old house for one more day, and we are co close to being finished with it. Rhiannon has been crushing it over there,

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Laundry room is working! It appears that for years the dryer vent has been just kinda set on top of the hole in the floor, not attached at all..... This had bl

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Cabinets are cleaned up, well to the best of my ability, and are geting filled up. You might not think this is such a big deal, or what crazy person needs to c

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Another busy one today! Lot's of people in and out of the house to get all of our services up and running. I think we are gettting settled in pretty well

Gratitude 156

Long day... We got everything moved over to the new house, and it was a long day. My legs are killing from the all the stairs. The kids did so good with all t

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Big day today!!! Movers are coming to box everything in our house!. It feels crazy but this move is about to happen. We could sit back and just tlet them do e

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Big play session tonight with Dobby and the kids, everyone was sprinting through the basement like crazy. All with HUGE smiles on their face. We ran so hard fo

Gratitude 153

Whew, an exhausting day. Packing, running with Dobby and the kids, and fully scooped the drive at two houses. We had our first chance to just hang out as a fa

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We bought out house today!! This all happened so fast and has been such a mix of emotions all the way. I am just so happy to be able to provide my family with

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Today felt like a mostly productive day, I got some good packing in. Played with the kids. Wyatt and I continued on with our amazing boat course in minecraft.

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Today feels sad, it just does. The politics of this stupid pandemic just hurt. Its really amplifying a lot of things that have been there for years and it hur

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I am so proud of Ayla and all of the progress she has made lately. She is doing really well with Mr. Black, her teacher from school. He has been really good a

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It's been a few weeks since I have talked to Mom, It kinda hurts. I really don't know what to do. This stupid pandemic is to dang politcal for it&#x

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Rhiannon is kicking butt today 🦵! She finished setting up our movers, started looking into full house cleaning services. And the greatest jeans ever came in t

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We got the appraisal back on our house today. It came in a bit under, and we are going to need to bring some cash to the closing, but it's ok it was not o

Gratitude 144

Today it warmed up quite a bit and the sun was in full force on the big dump of snow that we got last week. It made just the most epically packable snow. This

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BOOSTED x2. Rhiannon is double boosted as of today. She is so far handling it like a champ. I can tell it's having its effect on her, but the real effec

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Today I got some good Dobby training time in. He and I took a long walk around the park. He did really good, even in the deep snow that we have going on. Late

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Brisket night! We had a fantastic Brisket delivered to us by Butcher Box, and everyone absolutely loved it. Ayla was so skeptical, that it was kinda funny. s

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HUGE SNOW DAY. Today we got one of the biggest snows we have had since moving to Illinois nearly 10 years ago. The one that feels close was the first year we

Gratitude 139

Today Ayla was quarantined in her room after having a sick evening yesterday. She seems to be doing great overall today, no more symptoms. I completely expect

Gratitude 138

Boxes came today! Getting ready to really dig into the next phase of this move. It's a combination of exciting and overwhelming. I am so incredibly grat

Gratitude 137

First full day with Dobby home went fantastically! We did have one accident inside the house, he let me know that he needed to go, but I wanted to put real pa

Gratitude 136

Dobby (our new pup) came home today, and he is just the cutest pup ever. He is already filling our house with some much needed love. I know the next few weeks

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Today felt busy AF. It was just a solid day of activity. Tyring to get Ayla through her homework, through school, Deployed 2 projects at work, and.... and ...

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We got a passing home inspection today. There were comments on it of course, a few things we need to fix up, and a few things that we requested to be cleared u

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Chemo day today, and it seemed like an ok one this time round, Rhiannon was able to get a good rest in this afternoon. That always seems to help her quite a bi

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Tonight was the first night with Ayla's new routine and it went very well. I could tell it was much easier and more comfortable for her. I got to see our

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Today Ayla got a new night time routine for her enema, its called a peristeen. We have been looking forward to this step for awhile now. The progress we have m

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In my 32 years I cannot recall ever dropping an f-bomb in front of my mom, heck besides a short period in my life were I developed shop mouth I rarely drop one.

Gratitude 129

It all started when we decided to celebrate buying our house 🎉. We decided screw making supper and doing dishes, we are going to order something. We got pizza

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We got a house, for real this time. I am actually 99% sure, maybe 90%, anyways it's solid. We put in an offer and it was accepted this time. It's ve

Gratitude 127

We lost the house we were really dreaming of today. It's been tough. I think the toughest part is that we are going to have to spend more to get a house t

Gratitude 126

We are getting ghosted by sellers again, they are really cramping the style on this whole gratitude journal. I am very grateful that we have a great team on ou

Gratitude 125

We heard back from the owners of our house! As exciting as it is they still kinda left us hanging. They admitted to just ghosting everyone and that they will g

Gratitude 124

Last night we lined up a bunch of new houses to look at, still not hearing back from the owners, its frustrating, but we need to move so we gotta start looking

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They are still MIA, we have our hopes up that somethings serious happened, or they are taking the holiday weekend off. We still have time, but not much, so we

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😬 Today has been a bit nervewracking. The sellers of our house are MIA, and we are waiting for them to sign some documents. We are getting nervous that they a

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I think we did it!! We put an offer in on a house, negotiated, and accepted a counter offer. This is all moving so fast, there is so much more to go, but I rea

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Holy nother day! This process is moving so fast, this morning we stepped into the house that we have been looking for. It's honestly one that has came up

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Let the home buying process begin! Just a few days ago we thought our only option was to continue renting for yet another lease, and here we are today working

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What a day today was, we were really tossed into the home moving process on all fronts. We checked out a rental that is really close to where we currently are.

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What a DAY, the landlord reached out to us last minute asking if he could show the house we are renting to potential buyers tomorrow, giving us only one days no

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Supercross is back. Rhiannon and I took a few years off from watching supercross, the first time I had since I was probably 15 or so. I am not sure what happe

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Today we started cleaning up some more things in the garage, quite casually. I was quite impressed at what a great helper Wyatt was, he was stying on task for

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We made it through the first week back at it. I am so grateful that We made it through the important meetings with Ayla's school, and Rhiannon is still te

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Getting back into our rythm. It's starting to feel busy here again, work is cranking along with quite a bit of pull. I have have 1 of 3 major pieces of t

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Today was Chemo day for Rhiannon, and a rough one at that. We did get a whole box of Casey's delicious doughnuts and cookies to enjoy together. That only

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First day back to work for the new year I feel much more tired after a day of work, never in my life did I think I would say that about office work, but hard th

Gratitude 110

Really the last day before it all starts back up. Today, I totally thought it was a work day. Got dressed and everything, popped out the laptop and realized i

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This is the end of the long winter break and time to get back to the normal flow of life. It's been a great 2 weeks off. I was able to spend a lot of qua

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What a blizzard. Wyatt and I braved the cold, had a snowball fight, scooped the front sidewalk and just explored. This is probably the most snow Wyatt has yet

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Happy New Years 🎉🎉. Today we played Hangry, a new game that we got for Christmas as a whole family. It was a freaking blast! The whole family was belly laug

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Today was a super calm and chill day. It worked out because Rhiannon is coming down with something that is hitting her hard. No covid symptoms yet, we are hopi

Gratitude 105

We've switched to scratch. My son and I have one on one time twice per day, usually right at his chaotic times while medicine is kicking in. Generally it

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SNOW DAY!!! Today was the first day of snow! The kids and I took full advantage. We scooped the driveway and sidewalk first so that it doesn't build up in

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Today I really tried to shift focus to on the kids. It's been a wild ride this year and I have really been stuck in the motions, wake up, get kids food, w

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Today has been a day. Ayla has been on some serious mood swings and doing some very out of character activity. At the end of the day we had a nice talk. We t

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Christmas has been a blast so far. Everyone has been just having so much fun, with almost no arguing or complaining. There is so much gratitude shown for the t

Gratitude 100

It's Christmas eve and the love and excitement is in the air. It's definitely been a chaotic day with emotions going high and low. Ayla has been sin

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So much for better sleep, we made it to 2:00 am before kids were up. They were exhausted today, fingers crossed for tomorrow.I Today I played a new game with wy

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Both kids are starting to sleep again, we switched their medicine around and are doing things like thier vitamins in the morning and compensated some others for

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Chemo day Today was the every 3 week chemo therapy day for my wife. Today I am grateful that it all went well and that she got her favorite nurse, Dee, to admi

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It's been awhile It's been quite awhile since I have done a gratitude journal, like really long, but lately i've felt that it's time to star

The Good Old Days

When I think of the good old days, you are the first person to come to mind. Back in those days I was up before the sun every day... No Excuses. I remember I

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Happy Anniversary Its been 8 great years so far. We have grown together so much along the way. I don't think that we could have every planned out our pat

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Let's get outside The weather outside lately has been rainy and dreary, making it difficult for us to get outside much. Yesterday there was a break of gre

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Wyatt Graduated OT This week Wyatt hit a milestone. He graduated from his OT therapy!! 🎉**🎉** He has come such a long way since our first visit with them. He no

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Maintenance Today I am grateful for having our housing maintenance taken care of for us. Our AC went out last night. We called them up this morning and they ha

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Back to School Kiddos are all back in school, and doing better. Wyatt is still running a bit slower than his normal 110% energetic self, but is hanging in ther

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Keeping Busy Lately has seemed incredibly busy. I feel like I just dont quite have enough time to the things done that I want to get done. Key word to remember

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Helping each other It's been a bit of a rough go in our family. Above the normal advanced someone or several of us have been sick nearly all winter. Rhia

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Community Lateley I have found myself inside of a few niche communities becoming very well respected for my opinion. I rememver back a few years as I started g

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Getting out of the house The morning is early as I open the door and am greated with the fresh skif of snow. The perfect amount to go frolicing in. Not too mu

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Oh the Love Today is Valentines day, and I have been getting all sorts of love from my family, and it is really amazing. Rhiannon helped the kids create this m

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Reputation Today I am very proud of the reputation that I have buit. I am very well respected inside my community. My opinions are valued. I am known to be v

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Manners This weekend we re-implemented the ticket system in our house. It is really supposed to help focus ADHD kids. The kids have been really responsive to

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Working Remotely I am so grateful that I am working in a space in which I can work remotely often. As a mechanical engineer I really struggled. Our team was r

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Freedom to learn I am very grateful that I have the freedom to learn the things I need to in order to advance my skills and grow my career. I am very stretched

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Fun This morning Wyatt had a 2 hr delay. I still took Ayla to school on time. I did some work, but still had some time for fun on the MineCraft server. This

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Learning Resources Recently I have been thinking about all of the resources that have been available for me to learn. I am so grateful to have these at my disp

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Simplicity We have been moved into the new apartment now for about 2 weeks, and I am really amazed how it feels to have simplified a lot of things along the way

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Teacher Appreciation It's the dead of winter, the cold January months, so cold in fact schools closed down for two days due to an arctic wind. For these t

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Team Work The Boxes are slowly disappearing, the laundry pile is creeping down to the final pieces. We are nearing the final stages of the move thanks to some

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Calm We are tired, short on sleep, bodies tired from lifting, but we remain high on the excitement of what is to come. We are pushing through day by day to ens

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Anti-Imposter I am so grateful that even during a rough time, a time where I feel that I struggle to get things accomplished. I feel that I dont put the time i

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Great Friends We're officially moved into ouur new place today. I cannot thank all of our great friends enough for helping us get through the move. They

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Preparation Yesterday was packing day for a big move. We have been getting ready for a few weeks now... Rhiannon has been getting ready for a few weeks and I k

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The Right Words Yesterday we got a call from Wyatt's principal. It was something that I did not quite know how to deal with. These things are not in my w

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Great Morning Today is kicking off as a pretty amazing morning so far. The whole family was in a really happy mood, even right after waking up. I enjoyed the

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New Devices Alright I do not usually mix gratitude with material things, but hear me out here. Today is the second day with my new to me refurbished three year

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Amazing People This morning we informed Wyatt's bus diver that we were going to be moving and this was his last week riding the bus with her. It was sad t

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Recognition from unexpected places Today I got a meeting invite with two folks that I do not usually get to interact with. The title, recognition for Waylon Wa

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Great Friends Today we are getting ready for our big move. I am very gratefull to have such great friends to help us pack up our junk, and get rid of the thin

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We played hard Today was filled with Dr. appointments... and Wyatt was still out of school. Days like this can terrify my sometimes, but Wyatt was completely o

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Good Tunes Recently the kids have really been into singing in the car with Daddy on the way to and from Preshool. It is so fun, because we are all belting it o

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Good Moods This morning I was graced with the greatest mood that my son could possibly have. He was incredibly courteous, grateful, willing to do things on his

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Shaggy No More 2019 I will be more professional looking every day... not just when convenient and to kick it off I got my hair cut today. I have gone a few mon

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My First French Braid Tonight was the last night of the big holiday vacation and I finally got that special moment with every single family member over break.

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Productive Break It's nearing the end of the annual shutdown. We have had a lot of illness running through the house over the course of the break, but the

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Inspirational Work I research everything to _DEATH_. This includes my work. I am constantly looking for inspiration, and learning from others in how they do t

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Chill Every once in awhile its time to take a deep breath.. Seriously do it with me stop, take a deep breath, exhale. Understand that you cannot do everythin

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Positivity There is no substitute for a positive personality. I am very grateful to have a super positive subset of folks that I work with every day, it really

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Pick me up when I Fall Lately there has been a rollar coaster running through our house. So much going on that its hard for everyone ot keep their head above w

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Feeling Good Lately I have been feeling great! Literally great. We have had a ton going on for awhile and its been a long time that I have truely felt this gr

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Signs of Improvement Ayla was born 4 years ago with her fair share of medical issues. Most of which are resolved... potty training continues to be a source of

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Reflection Today is Thanksgiving here in the United States, what a great day to take a reflection on the past year, and think about what I am grateful for. Ayla

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Hanging in there... Through everything we have gone through we have always came out on top. Nothing has knocked us down so bad that we cannot get back up. Som

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She is a RockStar We recently _(today)_ found out that that Wyatt has moderatly severe Sleep apnea. This explains a lot for him, and is a bit scary for us at

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6 years The past 6 years have taught me a lot about life. Especially about the most important part **Family**. Family are those who have your back at any mome

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Talking Today I am grateful for the fact that I have someone to talk about my problems with. Rhiannon is very influential when it comes to mental health. She

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Happy Birthday Ayla Today was Ayla's fourth birthday, what an adventure it took to get here. I am so grateful for how far she has came. Her medical issue

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Support Today I woke up to find a very inspiring note from Rhiannon. It was hand writtent front and back! In the note she talked about the stuggles that we ha

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Playdate Today We had a playdate for the kids. While its good to get the kids out and interacting with others, its good for the adults as well. I am not typic

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Bravery Its not something that is handed out by participation. Being part of the battle does not earn bravery. Defeating the odds, going into a battle with p

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Kid Help I am very grateful that we have help with the kids when we need it on a moments notice. Today I came home with a migrane, and was able to rest up for

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Time Out Yesterday Rhiannon and I were able to get some much needed time away for some very overdue haircuts. It was really nice to be able to just take off a

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Running Over the course of the winter the kids and I have been creating trails through the woods behind our house. It has been really fun. The forrest is real

Good Morning

My own Pace Last night Wyatt was up in the night and was often coming in to ask for things. This often calls for a rough day. On this day though, he crashed abo

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Prep and Reflect I have recently found a new podcast, The Ken Coleman Show, from the Ramsey network. I really like Ken's style. He recently talked about

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Happy Birthday Today I am very grateful for all of the wonderful birthday wishes. I started off the day with two very excited kids. They couldn't wait to

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I slept in Today has been a really relaxing day! I woke up this morning Rhiannon was with Ayla, and Wyatt was downstairs with some friends staying in the house

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No More Credit Cards Let's face it we all know that credit cards are bad and we should not let them get out of control, but you know what life happens and

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Leis Yesterday we had the great opportunity to meet with Leis from ramsey Solutions. We were very honored to be able to meet with such knowledgeable advisor as

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Kid Smarts I cannot express how grateful I am for Rhiannon's smarts when it comes to raising small children. These things are complicated and only continu

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Special Time This morning Wyatt came into our room just as normal, chipper as can be ready to go. But something was different than normal. I felt like I had j

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Peace Today I am strugging to come up with a new topic for my gratitude journal. I feel like I have written about many of the things I am grateful for recently

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Get out and move This weekend was an abnormally warm January weekend, which meant that we were able to ge the kids out and moving more than normal. On Saturday

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Safety Today started out like most days, morning routine, kids in the car and headed to preschool. Since Rhiannon got the January mug at Starbucks we have been

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Communication Today I am grateful that I am able to communicate with my beautiful wife Rhiannon. I am so glad that we are able to help each other out on our wor

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Pick me up Sometimes you just need a bit of help and it is hard to pick yourself up. This morning was one of those days. I just felt overwhelmed and like ther

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Great Friends I am grateful that I have such great friends that are able to help us through a very difficult time. Today I am able to work and not have to worr

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Finishing Last night was a night that I had to run back into work late at night to run some analysis. I was able to get in and get it done fairly quickly, and

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Time I am not sure that time heals all wounds, but some wounds just take time. Yesterday during therapy Rhiannon finally had a chance to talk about some very t

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Encouragement [CuttinScrap.com](https://www.cuttinscrap.com) was released last night!!! I am very excited with how it is turning out. I am even more excited t

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Calm On Thursday I got the call that Rhiannon had passes out during physical therapy. I went right to her therapy office to find her rehydrating in a chair. S

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Support I am so grateful that I have Rhiannon in my life. Last night we were able to go out of our way to help a family member in need. I am so proud that sh

Gratitude 024

Support Over the past few years we have recieved tons of support from other people. This is something that I am very grateful for and we would not be where we

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Excitement This year I started a new position at work. Everything about it is enjoyable. Not sure if that is jut the honeymoon phase or not. I am working as

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Kid Time Sometimes you just need some time to be a kid. Today was that day... it was a snow day. During which the kids were very generous at letting me work,

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Adult Time There is something special about having pure uninterrupted adult time with your spouse. Last night I went out with Rhiannon and we had an absolute b

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My Parter Last night stared like any other night. Put the kids to bed, hang out with my Beautiful wife for a while, off to sleep, then Wyatt comes in at the wee

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Breaks Breaks are a good time for refresh and focus on some other things. During this holiday break I have been able to spend quite a bit of time with my beaut

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Time Off I am currently in the middle of a week long holiday break. Its nice to take some time off from the everyday hustle to refresh the brain and focus on s

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Special Moments I love having those special moments of time with the kids. Today we had a few minutes to play before supper time, and we decided to go down to

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Long Days, Good Times This Christmas we had two events on Christmas day, with 5 hours of travel, and a final destination to sleep at. I am very grateful that w

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The Good Days Good days are the best. I enjoy the days where everything seems to fall into place seemingly without effort. The air is clean and easy to breath

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Happy Holidays Round 1 I am grateful that we have been able to make it to my family for Christmas time. I am so glad to see how much fun my parents and the kid

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Strong Relationships A few months ago my wife and I decided to start going to family therapy, to talk about some things that we could see were only going to get

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One on One time Last night we made a long trip back from my In-Laws. Which was a great day by the way. Sometimes we struggle with Wyatt's energy in a hou

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Good Doctors Today we are nearing the last week before Rhiannon's Next Treatment in chemotherapy. It was a rough day, she had a bad carcinoid attack last

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Strength I have been getting back on my feet after a long turn of a low mindset. My wife has been my main inspiration through this process. She is working very

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Accommodations I am grateful for the accommodations that have been made for our family medical situation. I enjoy being able to support everyone in their appoin

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Restart Restarting each day is important for a very healthy attitude. Having a son with ADHD there are times where we need to restart each hour on a new foot. H

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Family Having a close family is one of the most important things in life. They keep us grounded. They are able to tell us things that no one else can. We are ab

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Sleep It does not get enough recognition, some good quality rest is very benefitial to start off a good day. Yesterday I was dragging.. hard. Wyatt was up at 2

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Community I know that I am not the most social person that is ready to talk to everyone in the room about anything. I am still grateful for the communities that

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Persistence Persistence is one of the great talents of my wife. Today I am grateful for her persistence because she has the medicine that she needs for her MRI

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Initial post Thank You for getting up with me this morning. I really appreciate all of the extra help. It means a lot to have my life partner there with me in t