Entering the month of love

Happy February! Can you believe January is gone and we are emerging closer to spring. I love this time of year, admittedly, January is not my favorite month, with the exception of Jan 3, which is our anniversary. Other than that, it is a dreary, cold, back to the grind, holidays are over, kind of month. So I look with anticipation to February. I laughed last night as I was looking around and realized, my wreath is still hanging over the fireplace, their is a christmas tree (artificial) still standing watch outside the front door and our front door is still cloaked with greenery from this past Christmas season, which leads to me to believe that I am not focusing and prioritizing my life and with that, I am becoming further behind in all things.
Hence,I declare, the MONTH OF LOVE. This month I am going to try to do one act of Love each day, whether big or small, whether for self or others and I will try to blog them weekly (I would say daily, but I know myself better than that)
Wouldn't it be nice to increase our level of love in the following areas
1. Love of the Savior. What things will you do this month to increase your love of the savior? Will you read about his life, will you pray more fervently? Will you increase your charity for others? Think about it and come up with 7 things you will do. One for each day of the first week of the month
2. Love of Self. I thought about having Love for others here, but I think you need to build a foundation. Love of the Savior and Love of Self...not love of being selfish, but to connect with who you are, to nurture yourself and fill your cup so you can effectively love others-- do this for the next 7 days
3. Celebrate Valentines Day with the next step, Love of those in your immediate family. Show an increase of love for your spouse and your children. Or your significant other. What daily acts of service and support can you give them. Do this for the next 7 days.
4. Love for others, or charity--the true love of Christ. Now you are ending the month and have re established your relationship with the Savior, have begun to fill your own cup and are nurturing those around you, You can now give that out to others, Go ahead, Pay it Forward. See what happens. I believe this is where we come full circle. As we become charitable, we learn greater love of the Savior, greater love of self and greater love of those near us.
I am excited to take this adventure. If youre up to it, join me!

just an update

I am getting more addicted to facebook and am blogging less and less. That is not a good thing, as I am not staying current on life in the Polson household. I guess my current topic would be....Can Tax season just be officially ready to go, so that I can have my husband home again???
I am sure Teresa and Brittany would agree. Being a taxworks widow is a tough thing. HOWEVER, it is not as bad as having Kris traveling like he was. Last year he was gone the whole month of January and came back for 5 days in February and then was gone the rest of that month as well. So, at least I get to have him home at night and we can snuggle on the couch and he can rub my feet and I can listen to him snore in bed at night. Something very reassuring about having your spouse right there by you in bed. Even if we never get a full night of sleep anymore...
Which would be topic number 2. The Dogs. Is it normal for the dogs to need to go out more as they age? Is it normal for great big slurpy, licky noises in the middle of the night as they drink from their water bowl? I swear, every night, Zoe is up and drinking and then up to go out and if it is not her, then Zeus hears a noise and wants to go out in the back to chase whatever poor creature might be lurking out there. I feel sorry for the unidentifiable creatures in our back yard that must cower in fear and two big lumbering, spastic dogs pick up their scent and tear mercilessly at them. So I get online and check the ever demanding Facebook and wait for sometimes up to an hour for the dogs to get done and come back in.
Usually at this point I am awake again and get out the blankets and pillows and snuggle in on the couch and watch whatever late night options there are on cable...sometimes they are few and far between.
But that is life right now.
Kris is still busy at taxworks. Nate has been invited to preference but has no money and no job to get his tux and flowers...thanks to mom and dad he will be ok. Nick is starting staff trainings this saturday for his summer job at camp bartlett and Caitlyn is in extensive rehearsals for "the music man" at FFJH. I am staring choir practice next week and we are doing 8 songs from various musicals including, Lion King, Grease, Wicked and Mama Mia. Wish me luck!

I HATE....ok..STRONGLY DISLIKE SPRINT!

Have you ever just HAD IT with a company???? Well right now it is SPRINT, the current carrier of our cell phones. It all started in September when we were deciding on whether we would renew our contract with them. Well, we wanted to get Caitlyn a cell phone for her birthday and they offered $150.00 credit per phone (2 phones) if we would renew. So we did. Caitlyn and I upgraded our phones and all was well until we got our next bill. OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!! Almost 500.00$. When we called them about it, not only did they NOT credit it us for each line we renewed, but they also charged a phone upgrade fee and then charged us our bill and another bill right on top of it. We were so frustrated with them and argued with them about said bill until Christmas when they shut all 3 phones off. We finally paid them (now 600.00) because they would not back down and to cancel all three contracts would have been another 600.00$. Well we got our phones back on and two weeks later got another bill saying we owed another 200.00. Can you believe that? They finally admitted that was their mistake and after turning Cailtyns phone off, agreed to make it right. Her phone is STILL not working. IT will receive calls but she can not make them or text. And now today...a week later...my phone is not working again! I COULD SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOUDLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OFTEN!!!!!!!!!! REPEATEDLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I am venting because I am extremely frustrated with SPRINT! I think we may just end up cancelling and going elsewhere.. I dont know what else to do! HELP!

I'm not ready, I'm not ready

I am NOT ready to go back to work tomorrow. I keep thinking about it. I have wondered if I could possibly get a sub...I mean, I am coughing. I have a theory. I think kids should go back to school with subs for the first week after Christmas break and let teachers have an extra week to regroup after everyone goes back, to take down all the decore and just SLEEP and maybe even go on a small secluded spa vacation. I mean, is that too much to ask??? Could the legislature possibly put in for a week break and a spa package for the teaching population?? What do you think?
I think it should be a mandatory thing. Just think how much more effective we would be. Maybe we could start one of those internet petitions with a million signatures on it and send it to the legislature??? Let me know what you think!!