Antidote

Kicking my own butt at the gym for an hour: treadmill, rowing machine, jump rope, weights.

Lunch at Marie Catrib's with Jemma (yes, of course pudding).

Lucky pedicures and swinging at the playground afterwards to dry our toenails.

Reading a pile of library books in the car while waiting for Annie to come out of school.

New running shoes and lipgloss. 

Inhaling fresh air with next-door neighbors before dinner, and children doing cartwheels madly in the grass. 

Well-behaved, cooperative, happy, and all-around hilarious children.

New Patricia Polacco book at bedtime.

Scoring a last-minute babysitter so I could join some friends to drink (too much) wine, and drinking the first Chardonnay I have ever liked.

This quote from Mary Oliver: 

"Sometimes I need

only to stand

wherever I am

to be blessed." 

This ridiculous video MY FRIEND MADE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QmRUL6f9rs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Sleeping with the window cracked open.