Gratitude Challenge Day 1

Gratitude Challenge Day 1

1.  Thanks to my mom who came to stay with us for 3 weeks while I adjusted to being a mom of 3.  She also helped me to turn these:

holey, dirty, and ragged!

we're at least the 3rd family to own these couches

Into these:

 

Amazing, right?  Guess how much it cost us?  $2.50 for the fabric (garage sale find!) ~$8 for the staple gun an a couple bucks for extra staples.  I've been wanting to do this for a couple years now.  I don't recommend it to anyone who just had a baby.  The only time we could work on it was at night when the kids and baby were sleeping.  We should've been sleeping too! Oh well, it took us a week and I am so glad to have 2 great looking couches now!

2. I'm grateful for my reupholstered couches and for my kids who have mostly respected my desire to keep them nice:)

3.  My trusty eliptical.  And the Boy Scouts of America for encouraging me to get back into shape through their 8 week fitness challenge.  But mostly  my eliptical because I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as a triple jogging stroller...

4.  Being a mom.  It's so hard. And so worth it!

 

5.  Club Med--the social network that I get to be apart of just for being the wife of a doctor.  They are treating us to a baseball game tomorrow.  I hired my first babysitter.  WOOHOO for a date night that doesn't involve dropping the kids off at a friends house while we go grocery shopping.  (I don't mind dropping the kids off at a friends but when you hire a babysitter, they put the kids to bed for you!)