I’m Quirky
Certainly by now my children know this.
Weekly I hear the phrase, “Other moms just aren’t like you.”
But every once in a while, I catch even the ones who know me best off guard.
I had left something at work the other day, and Micah came in with me to get it.
He took one look at my desk and cried out, “Mom!”
“What?”
“You didn’t give it to him?”
“HUH? Oh. No. That wasn’t for him.”
“You bought a mug while we were on vacation with someone else’s name on it, and you didn’t give it to him?
“It was never for him. It was for me. It makes me happy.”
“But you’re supposed to give it to him.”
“Not when it makes me this happy. It makes me smile every morning when I drink my coffee.”
“I don’t get you, Mom.”
“You’re a teenager, son. If you did, something just wouldn’t be right.”
You see, we had been souvenir shopping, and he assumed I was getting the coffee mug with someone else’s name on it for someone else.
But I was getting it for me.
That’s what he gets for assuming!
Anyway…
It’s hard to be motivated when you aren’t happy.
And as simple as it sounds, starting my work day off drinking coffee out of a giant, cheesy mug with the name of the sexiest man in the world and a big, glaring LAS VEGAS decal staring back at me, makes me happy!
Happy at work, means happy after work.
And leaving work in a good mood makes it all the more easy to head straight to the gym for lifting.
It’s amazing how the little things we can do to lift our spirits throughout the day can lead to better lifting later in the day.
Because before I can lift that first weight, I have to lift my spirits enough to lift my booty off the couch!!!
And for me it all begins with a mug and a smile.
Oh…and he does NOT know I have this mug. So, y’all do not tell him!!! He would roll his eyes for sure!
It’ll be our little secret!
