Jul. 30, 2022

Jul. 30, 2022

It’s Saturday afternoon, 7/30, and I am finally getting a chance to write again. Despite the fact that I am on a semi vacation, this past week was bonkers and I literally didn’t even have time to write a blog post.

As I type, the five of us, plus Denver, and the two sweet Fischer kiddos, are driving just under 5 hours from Sun Valley, ID to Big Sky, Montana. We were 100% sad to leave the most amazing place we have been as it is literally a playground for all ages. I have to think you would never run out of fun things to do, see, try and explore. Despite the fact that the town’s population is about 3,300 people. Simply amazing if you love the outdoors and being active. Put it on your list people!!

I decided that the most efficient way to provide an update today is to do a top 10 list, jimmy fallon style, (or maybe that was leno’s thing – I don’t know) as there was definitely a lot of learning for me in this past week.

Most importantly, Macy has finally turned a corner and feels better! She did not break out in a mono rash so considering we never got the blood work results back FROM LAST MONDAY, we are taking that as the indication that it wasn’t actually mono. (well that and the fact that she steadily got a bit better each day once the meds started.) I think she had a bad sinus infection, which she kindly passed along to baby brother Jude, who despite saying he “felt like he was blowing his brains out of his nose”, didn’t skip a beat or a single activity. And our trusty favorite pediatrician in RVA called him in some drugs and the Boyers seem to be back in business (please pray we all stay healthy!).

So, on with Tennille’s Top Ten Learnings from the Week.

1.  The sun sets at like, 10pm, so somehow we find ourselves eating dinner at 9:30pm at night and no one knows how that happened.
2. Which means we proceed to go to bed way too late every night.
3. Which means Tennille is very grumpy when she has to wake up after 5-6 hours of sleep each night.
4. Which means Tennille goes from grumpy to downright mean bc she has about 25 minutes to drink coffee AND figure out how to get her puffy mountain face zoom ready for her call at 7am.
5. Which means Tennille goes from downright mean to a don’t even make eye contact with her, level bc I didn’t get to work out DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY. (Okay, enough with the 3rd person. Literally one of my biggest pet peeves are people who describe themselves in 3rd person on LinkedIn. As if they didn’t write it themselves. As if they now appear less egotistical bc they are talking about how amazing they are at their job but it’s all okay bc it’s in third person. But guess what? EVERYONE FREAKING KNOWS YOU WROTE IT! [end rant].)

So, if anyone is still reading this novel, that’s the latest! On deck for this week? Only ONE morning with a 7am call (but it’s a biggie so not complaining) and I have committed to a hard core work out every day…actually letting Shawn be my trainer for the week. Which I never do. Because he gets on my last nerve when we work out together bc he gets all meathead locker room like “You’ve got this! C'mon just 3 more!” I mean, I know he’s trying to be encouraging but all I hear is “Oh my gosh you're such a complainer. Power through and maybe you’ll actually look better and be stronger.” To be clear, I 100% know that is my own internal voice but still, it’s a whole thing. So we shook on the fact that he won’t be doing that this week but that I will follow his routine and work out with him. (insert crying face again lol – maybe we call it ICF for short!)

I can’t wait to check out Big Sky and hopefully white water raft, zip line and maybe even fly fish. As my enneagram coach would say, as a 7, sitting in silence is a good practice for me. And he means for like, longer than 4 minutes. (ICF)

Sleep, silence and supersets, here I come!

Jul. 30, 2022