Wow! How does life get so crazy?
At work since my birthday we have been furiously getting ready for our every three year program audit. Can you say INSANE? We had so much to do! I am not that last minute kinda girl so my blood pressure has been off the charts!!
I am sure for the rest of you when you have huge deadlines at work, that everything at home runs ever so smoothly! Somehow I don't seem to have the handle on that. My last week and a half has been crazy! Sometimes I think the kids have 3 am meetings just to make sure their activities all overlap so I spend more time in the morning negotiating travel arrangements than checking that chores are done!
If any of you have any time saving skills to pass along (other than eaves dropping at 3 am) to make me super mom...feel free!
Keep smiling!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
On To State!
Yeah! Her team won sectionals on Monday night! They compete this Saturday in the State Tourney!! Go Girls!
Monday, March 16, 2009
What Now????????
Wow turning 40 wasn't so bad....surprise visits from too long of a distance best friends, parties, bonfires, incredible gifts......but now what?
It's like Monday arrived and everyone forgot that I am the center of the universe!!
It's back to "Mom, I need three dollars for more clay for my Egyptian pyramid." "Didn't they already take care of building the pyramid? ..Do I look like Pharaoh?"
"Mom I have to be at the gym by 4:00 for practice...I am supposed to bring five dollars for the coaches gift"....gift for what?....... Seeing to it that I haven't seen my 14 year old daughter for more than hour a day, unless I'm paying admission to watch her play?
"Mom I can't find my backpack.... why didn't you sign my weekly informer"....I'm like I didn't sign it because I haven't seen it.....where is it? "MooooooooooooM it's in my backpack, that's why I need you to find it!" "Well, Honey why isn't it hanging on your hook where it belongs?" "I just didn't have time with all your birthday stuff this weekend to hang it there!!"
This was just a very tiny sampling of what I mean about being booted from the center ring! I have no clue where to go from here?
I think this whole forty thing has been completely blown out of proportion!! I look in the mirror and nothing has changed!! I am still driving a mini van...no red sports car for me! I am still totally ADD....no new and improved works like it is supposed to brain! I am still working...no note from my boss letting me know that I was so dynamic as an employee in my thirties, I won't have to work anymore they will just send me checks anyway! I am still a taxi service....not one brilliant techy has figured out that whole "beam me up Scotty thing" outside the tv.
But what is even scarier than all of those things........I am so struggling with this mid-life crisis thing!! I mean I am not sure how to do it!! I still wake up totally mesmerized every day at the amazing way God works in our lives!! I still love being a wife and mom!! I love sitting around the very large dinner table with the eight of us and whoever happens to be over and hear about every ones day! I love throwing the football with the guys in the yard, I love dancing around singing (very badly..that didn't change either) with my little ones! I love the quiet of night before bed when everyone is slowing down and we can just be!
I know to be true to all the 40 year olds out there....... I am supposed to feel old and miserable.... but other than the fact that my weekend of leisure is over... I am very happy with my relatively crazy life!
Keep Smiling :)
It's like Monday arrived and everyone forgot that I am the center of the universe!!
It's back to "Mom, I need three dollars for more clay for my Egyptian pyramid." "Didn't they already take care of building the pyramid? ..Do I look like Pharaoh?"
"Mom I have to be at the gym by 4:00 for practice...I am supposed to bring five dollars for the coaches gift"....gift for what?....... Seeing to it that I haven't seen my 14 year old daughter for more than hour a day, unless I'm paying admission to watch her play?
"Mom I can't find my backpack.... why didn't you sign my weekly informer"....I'm like I didn't sign it because I haven't seen it.....where is it? "MooooooooooooM it's in my backpack, that's why I need you to find it!" "Well, Honey why isn't it hanging on your hook where it belongs?" "I just didn't have time with all your birthday stuff this weekend to hang it there!!"
This was just a very tiny sampling of what I mean about being booted from the center ring! I have no clue where to go from here?
I think this whole forty thing has been completely blown out of proportion!! I look in the mirror and nothing has changed!! I am still driving a mini van...no red sports car for me! I am still totally ADD....no new and improved works like it is supposed to brain! I am still working...no note from my boss letting me know that I was so dynamic as an employee in my thirties, I won't have to work anymore they will just send me checks anyway! I am still a taxi service....not one brilliant techy has figured out that whole "beam me up Scotty thing" outside the tv.
But what is even scarier than all of those things........I am so struggling with this mid-life crisis thing!! I mean I am not sure how to do it!! I still wake up totally mesmerized every day at the amazing way God works in our lives!! I still love being a wife and mom!! I love sitting around the very large dinner table with the eight of us and whoever happens to be over and hear about every ones day! I love throwing the football with the guys in the yard, I love dancing around singing (very badly..that didn't change either) with my little ones! I love the quiet of night before bed when everyone is slowing down and we can just be!
I know to be true to all the 40 year olds out there....... I am supposed to feel old and miserable.... but other than the fact that my weekend of leisure is over... I am very happy with my relatively crazy life!
Keep Smiling :)
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Birthday Weekend Recap
While I have my blogging friends here with me to upload pictures, I'll share some birthday weekend shots with you. Who knows, you may never see another picture on here again.
Here we are at Texas Roadhouse right after my Kansas friends surprised me.
Here we are at Texas Roadhouse right after my Kansas friends surprised me.
My friend slaved for hours and hours to make me this beautiful gift. It is the British Coat of Arms - to remind us of our 13 day trip to England that we took together 11 years ago.
Here are the crazy kids passing time during volleyball practice.
My surprise birthday party!
And the bonfire to go with it! My husband thought maybe we should take of care of last year's Christmas tree.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
40 is Looking Younger Every Day
Today is my 40th birthday. I have spent the last four decades climbing the proverbial hill. I thought by now I would have some vast array of insightful, incredible, ingenious words of wisdom to share with the world......But I guess I still must have much more climbing to do, because I certainly have not arrived at any of those things.
In all honesty, this blog is a life-threatening coercion from my friends who seem to think that I don't do a very good job of keeping them updated about my life. They got a little irate simply because we added a new 15 year old son to the family without even mentioning the possibility that this may occur. Some friends.
So from this point forward, I promise to do my very best to keep this blog updated.....Annually. Oh wait, I meant daily, really I did.
The life-threatening coercion didn't scare me so much (not at all) from 8 hours away, but yesterday these amazing friends showed up unannounced at Texas Roadhouse to surprise me for my birthday weekend. So here I am (I won't mention at gun-point), starting a blog. Now I'm scared. Very scared.
I had planned to spend my day frivolously shopping at the mall, a few hours at the spa, complete with dinner at my favorite restaurant....Ha. But no, I turn 40, and I have to sit here on the floor of my living room creating this blog. Life is so unfair.
OK, enough complaining. Truly I am not easily surprised, and when my friends showed up, I could not believe they were truly here. I'm kinda excited to start this blogging adventure, maybe they'll stay off my case about keeping up with it. Yeah right. Well, this post has to end, because I have to go celebrate being old.
In all honesty, this blog is a life-threatening coercion from my friends who seem to think that I don't do a very good job of keeping them updated about my life. They got a little irate simply because we added a new 15 year old son to the family without even mentioning the possibility that this may occur. Some friends.
So from this point forward, I promise to do my very best to keep this blog updated.....Annually. Oh wait, I meant daily, really I did.
The life-threatening coercion didn't scare me so much (not at all) from 8 hours away, but yesterday these amazing friends showed up unannounced at Texas Roadhouse to surprise me for my birthday weekend. So here I am (I won't mention at gun-point), starting a blog. Now I'm scared. Very scared.
I had planned to spend my day frivolously shopping at the mall, a few hours at the spa, complete with dinner at my favorite restaurant....Ha. But no, I turn 40, and I have to sit here on the floor of my living room creating this blog. Life is so unfair.
OK, enough complaining. Truly I am not easily surprised, and when my friends showed up, I could not believe they were truly here. I'm kinda excited to start this blogging adventure, maybe they'll stay off my case about keeping up with it. Yeah right. Well, this post has to end, because I have to go celebrate being old.
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