Sometimes I wonder if my posts are too "debbie downer"? I don't mean for them to be. So my apologies if they ever seem to be. Honestly I'm like a walking Hallmark card....WAY emotional. At they same time I like to keep it real and I'm not a fan of hypocrits. I have always been a writer, journaler, or whatever you want to call it and I often utelize my Blog for that.
So how many times do we hear stories of one day everything is normal and the next day it's changed. Could be due to a move, death, or even one day my child is 5 and the next thing you know she is 8. It happens. But what do we really do proactively about it?
This week a good friend and I had lunch and chatted about a friend of hers who is going through something that will cause her, and her loved ones, lives to not be the same. It brought back memories of my Grandma Riker and the end of her life. It was sad and it made me wish she were here, I wish she knew my girls.
I like to think her, and others I have lost are watching over us together. I also like to think that I am living in the moments and soaking in everything I can in relation to "my girls". After all wasn't it just yesterday they were 23 mos and a newborn?
Last week my Mom emailed me about Junie B Jones tickets and taking the girls. It warmed my heart. She saw that, thought of them and wanted to experience it with them. She will get an afternoon with them, enjoying something they love with them, sharing a memory with them. She knows them. She makes time for them. She makes plans with them without prompting from me. She wants to know them and build that relationship. That I love!
I love it because it means 2 things. One, she knows me well enough to know that I tend to "hog" my girls, so if she wants to spend time with them she will mostly need to proactively ask for that. She also knows the importance of that and making it a priority in her life.
My girls are blessed to have so many who love them and even more blessed for those who make them a priority and make spending time with them a priority.
For tomorrow maybe more time...but maybe not and for that we can't depend on. We have to live in the moment. We have to take advantage of what we can today.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Week, week Go AWAY!
This week has been...well long, stressful, draining and just not one of my favorites. It started out with our typical Monday dance and Jump Spot, but it was the first Monday of the month, which meant PTO. So Brad came so I could leave early to go to PTO. We have our annual Pancake and Sausage breakfast at the school tomorrow. The Boy Scouts do the pancakes and sausage, the Girl/Daisy Scouts do the Bake Sale and the PTO raffles off baskets. So there were last minute details to cover.
The rest of the week seems to be a blur. Work is nuts lately. I've been spending 1/2 my days training new people (which is fun and right up my alley:)) and the other 1/2 of my day doing a full day of my regular job. There's a lot going on and it's been busy, a lot of people wanting a lot of things. Which for the most part is good, I'm grateful that I'm thought of as reliable and able to do the work, but sometimes it can really drain a person.
We are in the midst of cookie sales for Scouts. Kaylee selling for Brownies and Ainsley for Daisies. This year is direct sales so we had to order the cookies ahead of time and then sell. Trying to tract and figure re-orders, etc has been a little challenging at times. Not to mention trying to coordinate my Daisies for their donations and bake sale shift times tomorrow.
Brad had to go to Springfield one day this week, honestly right now I don't even remember what day, maybe Tuesday? Since he's usually here to get the girls on the bus in the morning, I went into work late so that I could get them ready in the morning and his parents got them off the bus, as going in late meant having to work later. I'm grateful to have the help a phone call away!
Today I planned to leave work a 1/2 hour early, which I did. I was going to go to the bank to get the change for the bake sale tomorrow. However, on my way to work this morning I realized I forgot the bank account information for our Daisy account. I had to get the girls after school to help price our baked goods items for tomorrow, so I decided to run home, grab the bank info, go to school, price items, get girls and go to bank. Simple, right? Well I walked in to find Belle had gotten two bags of flour and opened them all over my family room floor. AWESOME! I cleaned it up as best I could, but couldn't get the dog back into the house. She knew she was in trouble! But I had to get her in the house because I needed to get to the school.
I finally got her in with 5 minutes to spare. I raced to the school to find chaos as one of the buss' had blown a tire in the middle of the road. I finally found my kiddos, got into gym and we priced our items.
We went to bank, got our change, came home and finished cleaning up all the flour.
UGH! What a week. Although I know that my week compared to others is a cake walk. In the grand scheme of life I've got it pretty good, but sometimes in the midst of it all it's hard to realize that. I'm tired, but can't sleep, and have a constant list of things to do always running in my mind:).
I'm happy to have the opportunity to volunteer at Kaylee's and Ainsley's school with PTO, to be Ainsley's Room Parent and to be Ainsley's co-leader for Daisies. Although at times when they all come together at the same time, on top of my full-time job, cleaning. laundry, helping with homework, counting box tops for the school. and whatever other randomness is going on I am drained! I feel it in my being, I get short with my loves at home quickly and quite frankly feel like a cat stuck in a paper bag. I just can't seem to get out of that bag!
I try to keep it in perspective to not allow myself to get too overwhelmed. I picture my Grandma Riker sitting and smiling at me, it was calming, or my Grandma Duffy sharing stories of her life that made me feel not so alone.
I focus on the fun things of the week, like going over to my Mom's and taking her the cookies she ordered from the girls and hearing about their trip. She got the girls some souvenirs and money for taking care of the chickens. They were excited!! She also made some donations for the Bake Sale tomorrow, which was amazing because it meant I didn't have to, and she let us borrow her cash box. She always comes through to help me not lose my mind:)!
So yes, I'm glad this week is over. Will there be more chaotic weeks to come...ABSOLUTELY! But for this week we handled it and succeeded! So for the weekend I will bask in my victory and get myself ready to tackle next week!
The rest of the week seems to be a blur. Work is nuts lately. I've been spending 1/2 my days training new people (which is fun and right up my alley:)) and the other 1/2 of my day doing a full day of my regular job. There's a lot going on and it's been busy, a lot of people wanting a lot of things. Which for the most part is good, I'm grateful that I'm thought of as reliable and able to do the work, but sometimes it can really drain a person.
We are in the midst of cookie sales for Scouts. Kaylee selling for Brownies and Ainsley for Daisies. This year is direct sales so we had to order the cookies ahead of time and then sell. Trying to tract and figure re-orders, etc has been a little challenging at times. Not to mention trying to coordinate my Daisies for their donations and bake sale shift times tomorrow.
Brad had to go to Springfield one day this week, honestly right now I don't even remember what day, maybe Tuesday? Since he's usually here to get the girls on the bus in the morning, I went into work late so that I could get them ready in the morning and his parents got them off the bus, as going in late meant having to work later. I'm grateful to have the help a phone call away!
Today I planned to leave work a 1/2 hour early, which I did. I was going to go to the bank to get the change for the bake sale tomorrow. However, on my way to work this morning I realized I forgot the bank account information for our Daisy account. I had to get the girls after school to help price our baked goods items for tomorrow, so I decided to run home, grab the bank info, go to school, price items, get girls and go to bank. Simple, right? Well I walked in to find Belle had gotten two bags of flour and opened them all over my family room floor. AWESOME! I cleaned it up as best I could, but couldn't get the dog back into the house. She knew she was in trouble! But I had to get her in the house because I needed to get to the school.
I finally got her in with 5 minutes to spare. I raced to the school to find chaos as one of the buss' had blown a tire in the middle of the road. I finally found my kiddos, got into gym and we priced our items.
We went to bank, got our change, came home and finished cleaning up all the flour.
UGH! What a week. Although I know that my week compared to others is a cake walk. In the grand scheme of life I've got it pretty good, but sometimes in the midst of it all it's hard to realize that. I'm tired, but can't sleep, and have a constant list of things to do always running in my mind:).
I'm happy to have the opportunity to volunteer at Kaylee's and Ainsley's school with PTO, to be Ainsley's Room Parent and to be Ainsley's co-leader for Daisies. Although at times when they all come together at the same time, on top of my full-time job, cleaning. laundry, helping with homework, counting box tops for the school. and whatever other randomness is going on I am drained! I feel it in my being, I get short with my loves at home quickly and quite frankly feel like a cat stuck in a paper bag. I just can't seem to get out of that bag!
I try to keep it in perspective to not allow myself to get too overwhelmed. I picture my Grandma Riker sitting and smiling at me, it was calming, or my Grandma Duffy sharing stories of her life that made me feel not so alone.
I focus on the fun things of the week, like going over to my Mom's and taking her the cookies she ordered from the girls and hearing about their trip. She got the girls some souvenirs and money for taking care of the chickens. They were excited!! She also made some donations for the Bake Sale tomorrow, which was amazing because it meant I didn't have to, and she let us borrow her cash box. She always comes through to help me not lose my mind:)!
So yes, I'm glad this week is over. Will there be more chaotic weeks to come...ABSOLUTELY! But for this week we handled it and succeeded! So for the weekend I will bask in my victory and get myself ready to tackle next week!
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