And so this is how I have decided to survive 2010 – have fun! I picked up a free mag at the store that had homemade donuts on the cover last week. What fun! Never done that. Sounded like a good weekend thing…and we should invite some friends to join in and so we did.

CRAZY week and leading up to that morning it was starting to feel like a bad idea. I was tired, cranky, annoyed with the kids….Chris woke up with a migraine 15 minute before friends and kids due to arrive.

But then our friends get here and suddenly all is right with the world. My girlfriends jump in the kitchen helping cook food and clean up, they listen to me ramble about future plans, and we laugh.. a lot. Oh, and the donuts were incredible. We made strawberry jam-filled, blueberry fam filled and plain rolled in cinnamon sugar. We have made plans to have a regular breakfast club every 4 to 6 weeks and just rotate houses. And so it begins.

Later that night, I hook up with another circle of friends, have many drinks and pizza and laugh for many hours. This is the medicine to a hard day, to a dismal outlook, to a down cycle. This is what needs to be peppered in regularly.

Last night I felt so very alone and bummed and so it was such a gift to have a day filled with so many wonderful (and hilarious) people. I am trying to make time for fun…and so far, so good! :-p