& that's the way life goes

This weekend was a filled with life lessons:

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• When you have something in your head for a very long time that you can’t let go of, Write It Down.  Get it out on paper email.  It doesn’t matter if you’ve written pieces of it before, put it all together in one sitting.  And then send it to a super sweet, awesome friend (you know who you are, words can’t describe how thankful I am to you for making me do it!).  Your heart will be lighter, I promise.

• Children are not always the devil.  I kid, I knew this, but I had a great Saturday with some taekwondo kids.  I also found that I enjoy coaching tournaments.
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• I love taking pictures.  One of the mom’s has a Canon Rebel.  It’s fancy and awesome.  I spent the other portion of my time not coaching taking pictures.  Love.  I think I missed my calling :-/
• It takes me almost 24 hours to recover from all the commotion of tournaments. Large groups of people, no matter how much I enjoy them, wear me out.  I came home after dinner on Saturday with JP and literally soaked up the silence.  No irritated parents, no yelling coaches (who take 6-yr-old sparring and losing by a point to a whole new level, hello they are 6 – get over it) just silence.  Well with the exception of dog nails on the tile.  I then crashed on the couch until C got home from hockey.  He was way too hyper so after an hour I laid on my bed in the dark with Liko and Scooby.  I fell asleep and got up at midnight to go to the bathroom.  I talked to C for a minute, grabbed a granola bar and went back to bed.

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  Apparently, I was scaring C. He couldn’t understand what I was doing.  He came into the bedroom and asked if I was eating the granola bar in the dark. I was.  He then called me a rat, to which I replied I’m more of a raccoon.

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  Sunday I was still in recovery mode.  We went to the grocery store and then I came home and took a nap on the couch.  I think I’m fully recharged now.

How was your weekend?