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20{4}40 – Bikes, Breast Cancer and Boobs

Lenten Challenge Following Ann, counting my blessings. 

521. Sunshine
522. Company Bicycles
523. The brilliant idea of painting my bike helmet pink
524. Bike ride along the Trinity
525. A 2.6 pound loss this week
526. Finally getting off the plateau
527. Persistence
528. Buff Chad for teaching me the proper form for planks, situps and pushups
529. Being able to share my [limited] fitness knowledge with others
530. 5K opportunities
531. Promising to walk with a friend on a 5K in May – walk with her, not run for me
532. Rosemary Olive Oil pretzel crisps
533. Fresh haircut
534. New Style
535. Hair dryer
536. Flat iron
537. Christine’s recovery from breast cancer
538. Her last round of Chemo
539. Her looking forward to new, perkier boobs
540. Being able to laugh with Christine about the thought of new, perkier boobs

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20{4}40 – The Architect and Graduation

The Architect and Friends

481.  The Architect
482. Passion Play for the parish

483. Silly Guard uniform for Passion Play, complete with leather skirt, chest plate and plumed helmet
484. The seriousness with which The Architect considers his role in the Passion Play
485. The somber moment when he says, “Mom, I don’t want to be the one to kill Jesus.”
486. The immediate moment after when he says, “I’ll just let our roles drop for a minute and see just C***y standing there. I can hit him easy and he won’t care.”

487. Graduation from 8th grade

488. Plans for graduation celebrations

489. May Crowning
490. Living Rosary
491. The Architect wanting to say the Hail Mary in Portuguese
492. Husband trying to remember how to say the Hail Mary in Portuguese!
493. Rosary I made for The Architect for his first communion
494. 8th Grade Mass for the Diocese
495. Day trip to the Ranch
496. Swimming
497. 8th grade teachers who are very gracious and diplomatic in the way they enforce the “modest swimsuit” rule for the Ranch trip
498. Anticipating all the parties and fun that goes with launching our kids to high school
499. The Architect’s Friends, who have been his friends since preschool
500. Knowing my kids know Jesus

Lenten Challenge Following Ann, counting my blessings. 

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20{4}40 – Late to Work and a Site Visit

 Lenten Challenge Following Ann, counting my blessings. 

 461. Precious drops of rain
462. Thunder and lightning shows in the wee hours of the morning
463. Lost keys
464. Spare keys
465. A quick drive back home to deliver keys…enjoying the extra hour of quiet thinking time
466. Getting to hug Princess Pea one more time when I bring her keys to her
467. An understanding boss
468. Almond Biscotti
469. Copious amounts of Decaffeinated coffee
470. Site visit on a pretty afternoon
471. Client with a pickup truck
472. Figuring out how to solve a sticky drainage issue
473. Agreeable homeowners who will let the City have a drainage easement across their property
474. Surveyors who have everything staked out, easy to see
475. Silly dogs in dog shacks
476. Blooming trees
477. More dogs guarding their yard
478. Being able to fix a sewer connection
479. Driving back to the office with the sunroof open, music blaring and hair flying in the wind
480. Decaffeinated Americano with skim milk on ice
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