Wild week…

Wow, this has been a busy week.  I am fighting overwhelm and in need of a slow down.  A break would be nice too… we will see about that…

Monday morning I took Kiahna to her third day of preschool.  Dropped Jadon off at his preschool, and went to get groceries, and eat breakfast with my sil, Judy.  Went back and picked up J & K at their preschools, came home and put away the groceries… decided to go to a roller skating party that night.  Then decided that since I was going to travel to the city with the stores that are not WALMART, I should really get swim suits for James and Zach… so that led me to pick up Leah, Lucas, and Zach from school… drive to the city… shop for 2 hours, eat dinner in the drive through, and then go to the skating party.

Why that was a bad idea?  Shopping. 5 kids. 1 adult. agenda. bad idea.  Jadon, who hasn’t been to a mall in years I am guessing, didn’t know how to act.  Thought it was great fun to run around and play.  Got in trouble.  Didn’t like that. 

WHAT WAS I THINKING?

I knew it was a bad idea, but i still did it… we needed swim suits.  We were going to the city.  You can’t do that every day when you live where we do!  We are leaving for Florida in almost three weeks.  Swim suits are the one thing we had to have. 

Sanity.  Yeah, that is optional.

The skating ended up being lots of fun.

A HUGE bright spot and blessing this week, was to come home and find that an angel had made a bunch of meals and felt that she was to bring them to US!!  I am so touched by God’s continual lavish love on us… and this amazing community that listens to His voice and takes care of those in need around them.

Tuesday, began with Leah’s alarm clock waking Jadon and Kiahna and NOT LEAH!  It was 6:30 and they were up and I was not pleased.  Then Kiahna decided to lock herself in the bathroom and was holding the push button lock so that no one could get in.  Just in case you are wondering, this is not a good way to start a day…

I decided I really needed to participate in the Tackle it Tuesday carnival again.  It has been so long since I did that, and my house was screaming for my attention.  So, I began to tackle, but never got to the part where I actually get to post about it… oh well.

I did clean out my closet, and get rid of a whole garbage sack of clothes…

I totally think that Fly Lady has the corner on how to keep things under control.. now if only I could get myself to stop deleting their e-mails, and stop being a fly-baby after, oh, what, 6 or 7 years of attempting this route? 

In 15 minutes I had weeded through my half of the closet, and in another 15 I had things thrown away, and bagged up to give away… room put back in order, even swept and dusted!

I tackled Jadon and Lucas’ room too…

Before: 

During:

After:

Took out two large stacks of outgrown-not being worn clothes… checked for shorts to wear in Florida…

 

…folded tons of laundry… went through mounds of clutter… swept some… dusted some… found the kitchen counter… lost it again… shined the sink…

SO THANKFUL to have a meal from the freezer to pop in!  WHOO HOO!!!

Left to take Lucas to a bb game that he was to play during 1/2 time of the JV game.  From there we went to a 4-H meeting… and J & K got high on ice cream and homeade bars… uhg. 

Came home, put them to bed, and sat down to write on my blog… only to find that Kiahna had again gotten out of bed and locked the bathroom door again!!  Holding the lock so that the key wouldn’t work.  Can I say, this is not a good way to end a day either. 

Today, did the preschool round again.  Kiahna cried for me this time when I left.  The teacher said that she cried for an hour after I left.  I hate that.  But, she also said that she thinks Kiahna is doing very well for only 4 days into this… and that the crying wasn’t a tempter tantrum, just loud crying. 

I went and volunteered in Lucas’ class while they were at preschool today.  I realized this morning that we hadn’t studied his spelling words yet this week.  Another sign we are too busy!  I got to grade the tests while I was there… yeah.  Bad, Bad, Bad. 

While I was at the school, Zach and I met with the guidance counselor to go over his schedule for next year.  It is overwhelming to hear them talk about his senior year, and know full well how fast it will all go. 

Swept out my van, letting them eat in there, snack in there, do homework in there on Monday night… DISASTER!!

Is there any doubt why I am exhausted?

Tonight Zach has AAU bb games….. when my dad said he was going to go, I decided I was going to stay home.  I am finding myself in that place of overwhelm that I just want to cry for no reason… a rest will be good for me tonight… and J & K can get to bed early…

They were playing in the mud this afternoon… it is 50 degrees and sunny… well the sun is gone now, and it looks like it could rain, but it was sunny earlier… and I have muddy clothes to tend to.  And Zach got to go out and clean up the toilet paper, since the snow is melted now… he was pleased about that.

  

We are enjoying, yet another frozen meal tonight… I am putting kids to bed early… after we study spelling words of course, and read… and then I think I will take a long, hot bath, and try to relax.  Wish me luck.

Pam