Busy

Sometimes I just wonder when things will slow down. But I know the answer is never, or maybe in 17 years. The beginning of the school year seems to have brought nothing but chaos. Organized chaos. With soccer now 2 days a week. Ainsley's long school day, preschool, and a baby I feel like I'm always running and playing catch-up. While I'm liking our days being more scheduled than they were during the summer, I feel like I need a 3 day weekend every week to catch-up. We just seem to have more of a packed schedule than we've ever had. I guess it comes with older kids. Because it seems like just a couple years ago we were bored and home a lot more.


For example:
(FYI this will be way too detailed for about 98% of the readers of this blog...so feel free to skip :)


John was out of town for a week and now 4 days later it seems like I still haven't seen him. He got home Thursday night and the minute he got home we were out the door. Literally. We loaded the kids in the car and headed to the open house at Ainsley's school. I left from there to go to my concert. Got home after John had gone to bed. Then on Friday the minute John got home from work we were off to a friends birthday party, where we didn't seem to spend too much time together (I guess we're just both really good at mingling).


Saturday we woke up early and I headed to out primary program practice. Then he and I shuffled and traded kids to try to have them both at soccer and the program practice simultaneously. We cleaned up the party, had a couple hours at home and then headed to Emmie's best friends first birthday. Technically they aren't best friends yet, but they will be!


We got to bed early in order to get up and to work early on Sunday. Sunday, a day of rest? Ya, right! We don't have church until 1:00 and I don't think I sat down for more than 2 minutes from the time that I got up to the time we left for church. Because I woke up and put together 100 bags of popcorn for the kids...but they turned out cute didn't they?


I also made thank you's for our teachers, chorister, and pianist. 30 teachers Rx bottles. I think they turned out cute too. Not to toot my own horn or anything. But I'm totally tooting my own horn. Especially since I got the whole thing online.

And to top off the morning Ains lost another tooth. It was really sad because for some reason the Tooth Fairy didn't stop by last night. Ains and I are thinking it might be because I was up late and maybe the Tooth Fairy thought we weren't asleep so she didn't stop. I'm sure she'll do better tonight!

After a crazy day at church (the program and my sharing time went well) we headed over to my parents for my dad's birthday. 3 birthdays in one weekend!

And then we came home, put the kids to bed, and I started working on sharing time for next week. And today I've been either at Ainsley's school or watching kids since noon while trying simultaneously to start canning my salsa. I'm a wreck and babysitting until 6:00. But I'm managing to type this. So I guess technically I can handle more!

And there you have it.................more than you ever wanted to know about our weekend!