Cake, Anyone?

Whether I've been gone for one night or dozens of nights, the minute I climb into MY bed post nights in another bed, I say 'Hello, bed - I missed you so much'.  My bed is perfect and comfy and my body knows exactly how to get into a good position for sleep - I miss it when I'm away and I feel so happy when I'm back. 

That and I love sleeping.  A lot.

The angel food cakes turned out fine - and my friend (who's celebrating the birthday today) texted this morning that she's going to be out today and tomorrow....so I have tons of strawberries, angel food cake and whip cream that won't be needed for a couple days.

Guess we'll enjoy a nice dessert with dinner tonight.  And I'm going to text H. & R. and see if they want to swing by to pick some up - nice dessert for them, too!

J. and I are in the discussion phase about our 15 night cruise in October, 2018.  Penciling that vacation in has resulted in every minute of paid time off being 'booked' - and Majah with no option to take a day off now and then is not a pretty thing to experience.  Just the 'no option' part of it boggles my mind - 13 months of not a single additional day off.  I am planning to work 2 days of Thanksgiving break and a couple days of Christmas break because I'd need to use vacation to be off for those little bits of time (just the way the holiday schedule works for someone in my job classification with the 'calendar' I have) and I can't do that. 

I am going to re-sketch it out today and see.  Dropping that to even a 10 night cruise would help - and we could then skip any trip in March, 2019, and plan for Panama cruise in October, 2019.  We'll see.

We are blessed with many, many options and that's a lovely thing.

During every jaunt to a casino, there's always a point when I am sitting there playing away, Blue Moon in hand, nice people cheering each other on and giving the machines heck....and I just feel so, so blessed.  This life (my life!) is amazing and I am so blessed to have the ability to have fun with no worry.  I wrap myself up in those feelings and close my eyes and just enjoy that moment. 

Gratitude for the life that affords me this fun time - and for all the other blessings like a home, food, loving husband, kids....all of it.

It's Monday morning but the warm blanket of thanks continues - I'm ready for the day!