{"id":6497,"date":"2012-10-07T15:25:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2020-12-20T02:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T06:40:43","slug":"favorite-thing-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6497","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Thing: Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like beginnings. I like positive progress. And I like them not just in the people and things around me, but also within myself. Here are some of the things that have changed in my life lately.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marshall started preschool in August. He goes to school four days a week. Before he returns home each day, the teacher tucks a piece of paper into his backpack. It lists all the activities the kids did for the day. They play with Play-Doh and listen to stories and sing songs, among other things. Sometimes the teacher sends home Marshall&#8217;s craft projects. For example, he made a paper mirror (the &#8220;glass&#8221; part was a piece of tin foil) and he made a painting by rolling a paint-covered apple across a piece of paper. One day the teacher even sent home a photograph of Marshall. He was wearing a fireman&#8217;s hat and holding a fire hose (with a little help from the visiting fireman, of course). We love opening up his backpack and checking to see what treasure might be inside. We love knowing that he&#8217;s having a great experience at school, too.<\/li>\n<li>We have eggs! Chicken eggs, that is. The hens finally started laying. My husband sometimes finds the eggs while they&#8217;re still warn. Talk about fresh!<\/li>\n<li>We are no longer a single-vehicle family. We bought a truck. Why buy one now after all these years of getting by with just the car? We can afford it no better now than we could a couple of years ago. But we had some mechanical problems with the car, and that made us realize how much we need to have a working vehicle at all times. I&#8217;m not really a truck kind of person, but I&#8217;m willing to let my husband have his way in this. He deserves it.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"On Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6430\">As I mentioned before, I sent a story for publication.<\/a> I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;ve changed to the point where I can do something like that. Once upon a time, I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to, because I used to worry too much about how people would react to my writing.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve also come clean with my coworkers, disclosing the pseudonym under which I submit freelance work, and admitting to submitting other new ideas anonymously. I realized that I had, in some ways, taken anonymity to the point of near-invisibility, and I found that I didn&#8217;t like it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Change is an especially fitting subject at this time of year. That&#8217;s probably part of what made me think of it. The leaves have been changing for a while now, but I still get a thrill every time I look up and see those glowing colors, and every time I see another leaf twirling down to the ground. I love the fall!<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why Change is my Favorite Thing today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like beginnings. I like positive progress. And I like them not just in the people and things around me, but also within myself. Here are some of the things that have changed in my life lately. 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