sailing!

It's been a long cold winter, and to be honest, I have enjoyed it. However, it was great to get away and go sailing this weekend. I ended the season back in November at an Ultimate 20 regatta at Lake Norman, North Carolina, and it's fitting that I started the new season at the same club! I am thankful for friends who also sail, and invite me to come along to regattas and race with them. We drove down to NC (thankful for the uneventful smooth drive). Went out to dinner and laid low. Over the weekend I was thankful for sunshine! The temps weren't too bad (better than Cleveland), and we got some great racing in! Another huge plus to the weekend, was the generous club member who offered us to stay at his lake house, which was literally 2 houses away from the club. So easy to go back and forth!
We won the event, and had a really nice weekend away before driving back into the snow in West Virginia. At least the snow was clear in Ohio. Sunday Night, I was happy to have the experience. I think sometimes it's easy to forget about how much you enjoy something when you haven't gotten to do it in 4 months!

Tonight, I am happy that my report card grades are done, and we have 4 days left till spring break! The End of the year is approaching WAY too quickly!!

The places you'll go...online!

I am fortunate (and realistic enough to realize) that I live in the age of the internet as far as knowledge and resources go. Yea I will admit the abundance of false stuff out there is unfortunate, but I love that I can look up just about anything I need. I can purchase items after sitting on my couch and researching the best price, I can constantly have thousands of recipes at my fingertips, I can lay out basic plans about a trip I'm going to take in a few months and research travel and lodging! And yes, I did each one of these today. Thank you hotels.com, amazon.com and my favorite food blog "budget bytes!" 

When I started writing tonight's post, I planned on it being about how I am thankful for the budget bytes blog because of the easy, affordable and healthy recipes on it. I have started to make most of our meals based on the recipes found there. But as I started typing I noticed that really my thankfulness extends so far past just one blog! So I guess I will stick with I am thankful for the internet! (This post is purposely ignoring all of the bad that comes with the internet, so just be optimistic with me!!)