See Beyond

It is 7pm. I have had a super lazy day. This little girl is kinda sucking the life out of me. I don't sleep well at night. She comes in our bed everynight. It's cute. 

My lacking any get go might be a combination of tending to K and Natalie, who stayed home from school again today. This is sick day 3. She's feeling better, but low on energy from not eating much the past few days. Plus her lips are all sore with cold sores, so she is not going out in public until they heal. She's been sleeping in our room on the "sick couch" so I can be her attentive nurse. She's all set up for with a shelf for water, vaseline, q-tips and toilet paper.

I let her and Katharine watch movies while I took a nap this morning. I've been struggling to get going all day. After waking up from my too long nap, I went for a ride. It was super windy, but the temperature was good (65 degrees). It was sludge going against the wind though. There was a tree that fell down on Techy, making a new feature. But the rocks that some diligent soul piled up to make it passable, did not make it possible for me. There is a little drop right there, and so now to go slightly up on the log and then drop down is beyond my techy abilities, so I'll have to go up there sometime and clip away branches to make myself a new path around it, cause this feature is not happening. 

Enjoying the fall mountains, even though things have rusted and fallen and left "the mountainside cold and bare..." - Sleepwalker The Killers. In a few spots the rusted leaves are still holding on. 

Oh, and I became the "local legend" for church to wasatch, haha, that's fun. I rode through the neighborhood after I was home, there were a few pretty bushes bright with red. I need some of these in our yard someday. 

I did read a totally appropriate entry in Simple Abundance today. It hit the spot. It was almost the actual entry for today too! But just a day later, the Nov 6 entry. It talked about coping, and coping well. It's like in the scriptures: there is submitting (Mosiah 3:19), and there's submitting with patience, and submitting cheerfully and with patience! (Mosiah 24:15). I'm working on the cheerful part. So the Nov 6 entry is good - she gave some tips for coping through the little things. "Coping well enables you to see beyond the circumference of circumstance, so that the Real in the center of your daily round is not hidden by happenstance" and "Every time we cope well with whatever real life throws our way, it's another deposit of confidence, creativity and courage in our self esteem account. So congratulate yourself each night for handling the unexpected with finesses. Well done." Blogging helps me cope. Going to go give myself a pat on the back.