Happy things Friday

I am copying Elizabeth’s format today as I am feeling joyful despite a rather stressful week.

Things that made me smile this week:

The sunrise sky color. It’s different every morning, the shades of pink, the shape of clouds. I love the crisp air and the start of the day to be outdoor.

Despite my fall, I still managed to run consistently. I was feeling tired, mostly due to work related stress, and asked my coach for optional runs. At the end, I followed through everything as planned before as the pressure was off to do it perfectly. I had a fartlek run on Wednesday, 15-20 min warm up, 12 sets of 2 min at 10km effort followed by 2 min recovery, and 10-15 min cool down. I didn’t even set it up in my garmin as I was almost sure I wouldn’t do it, but after 20 min of warm up, I felt good and did it. It was one of the best feeling, positive surprise!

My work friend continued to check on me every week to see how I was doing emotionally due to internal job changes, affecting job security in some cases. I am grateful for truly work friend that cares about it.

A team member that was potentially moving to another team is confirmed to stay with us. I really like her and she likes to stay with us, so it’s super nice to keep her with us. Work space environment is created by each person, no matter than rank, gender, country of origin, we all contribute to the inviting space.

The entire family attended Lizzy’s drama performance. She has been super excited about it and we were there to support her.

I arrive school earlier and wanted to spend some time with Sofia over ice cream. She “refused” as she was helping her friend with a project. I walked away with bittersweet smile.

We got a new helper who’s the wife/partner of our gardener. She is excellent! I love how clean she leaves the house. Priceless.

Do you still kiss your kid on lips? I still do with Lizzy and makes me so happy every time.

We were invited to attend Argentina’s independence celebration at the embassy. Husband and I arrived, saw full of people waiting in the line to enter, there was no space to park, so we left and went to have a solo dinner “date” instead. It was nice!

I am LOVING reading paper books! I discovered many books that I had stored for 8 years un-read or forgotten. So I am re-reading them and love holding a physical book. I am super excited to have a home library of books that I can pick up from anytime. I am getting back to read 10-20 min non-fiction in the morning and it’s super nice. I am still finding a good rhythm to read before bed for fiction but no pressure. Talking about books, Sarah’s book cover is PERFECT! I am excited for her and intrigued to read it.

The spontaneous 15 min call with my BFF. I just texted her this morning: Maruch, when are we talking? (after like a month of hiatus). And she called 10 min later.

Things I am looking forward to this weekend that is starting on Friday (first Friday off since March)

• Baking something yummy for the family
• Organize the bookshelf with all un read books so it’s easy to pick one and keep track
• 16 miles easy run on Saturday
• Taking the girls to try ifly (fly simulator)
• Taking the family to the picnic place after a long bike ride with Sofia
• Spend few hours reading a new fiction!