Sunshine

Sun is shining! Hubby is home from his business trip it is a great day!

It is 77 degrees here today, sun is bright, wind is blowing clean air into the open windows of the house. We have been outside most of the day. Actually got to come inside and lay down for a nap (I will admit I was the only one who fell asleep good thing hubby is home). Just a nice relaxing sunny day. Going to set up our new Kroquet (sp?) set in the back yard in a few minutes and play a game with the kids before dinner.

It is suppose to be sunny and high 70's again tommorow. But the weatherman is trying to dampen our sunshine by warning us of cold weather returning next week and rain rain rain. But until then I am headed outside to enjoy the sunshine!

beep....beep....beep

Beep...beep....beep....since 2:30 this morning. As if I am not a bad enough sleeper when my hubby is gone anyway this morning 2:30 our security alarm decides to malfunction. Since 2:30 am it has beeped every 2 minutes. I got up and reset it and I turned it off and back on. Nothing it says 04 is open well we only have 3 doors so I dont know what it is talking about. The only way to get to talk to someone is to set the thing off and wait a minute until they call, which waking the kids up as well as myself didn't sound appealing. So instead I am awake and have been since 2:30 when it is wake up time where hubby is in PA I am going to call and see if he knows what is going on with this stupid thing. I was already going to have a busy tiring day without being up since 2:30, I am sure I will be in a delightful mood today...not.

junk junk and more junk

Matt left for his week long business trip.

The kids and I went to a birthday party this afternoon. It was a skating party. Very cute watching the kids skate (well if you count hanging onto the wall for dear life) but they did make it around the rink once. I opted out of skating this time, I did last time they had a party but I was tired already today.

The kids are in the living room having a sleepover and I have started my cleaning. I always clean when Matt's gone. I started in his office and closet (he is probably reading this say oh my god what did she do...lol). My husband is the biggest pack rat I have always said this, but I will say now that I am afraid he is rubbing off on me. I still ended up with a black trash bag full but I have to admit that I kept a lot more than I used to. Did we need it? No it is probably just junk, but what if? or what about?.....so my cleaning is going but I am noticing that I am not getting as much out of the house as I thought I would. I have to say that Matt's desk looks better just being dusted and I can actually walk into his walk in closet in the office.

Back to getting rid of my junk!

Friday night

My exciting Friday night has consisted of packing my husbands clothes as he is leaving for a week in Pennsylvania on business, counting money for a PTA fundraiser and making banana splits with hubby and kids.

Matt leaves in the morning for a week in Pennsylvania and I am already dreading it. It never seems to fail that everything that I am keeping juggling in the air somehow crashes down while he is away. Several times a sickness either the kids or myself, other time car problems, something at the house...always seems to be something happens. I told my sons aide at school today that Matt was leaving tomorrow, and she was like no he can't. She knows to the way everything seems to go haywire.

We plan on getting up and going for a big breakfast at Golden Corral and then taking Matt to the airport. Tomorrow the kids have a birthday party to go to. Hopefully the week will pass fast and uneventful. I do tend to get more cleaning done while he is away so that is a plus.

Planning my week...busy busy...fits

Matt keeps saying he will help take the stress off of me...but I honestly don't know how to relinquish. Some of the stuff is because in the past when I did relinquish things happened from little mistakes and I just don't want to risk those mistakes. My husband is wonderful and helps so much around the house so I have nothing to complain about, but right now with Braden's medical and just all around things I feel so overwhelmed. Today I sat down to plan out my week......

Monday I will be at the school all day probably taking the kids in and catching up Brittney's teacher, then taking Braden to class his teacher left as of Friday to have her baby so there is a sub and with all his issues I want her to be caught up luckily he does have an aide with him Tiffani who is wonderful but I also have to update her! Then the school nurse because she will also have to give some of Braden's supplements. Then have a meeting with vice principle/special ed director to update them make sure they know what Braden can do at school, cant do and can and cant have as far as allergies go. I will have to consult with the janitors on cleaning ingredients because Braden is allergic to so many we have found out. I figure this will take all morning and the valentines party for Braden's class starts at noon and Brittney's at 1:00 so I figure Monday is at the school. After school Braden has a doc appointment and speech. Also have to follow Matt sometime to take the van into the shop.....drove all the way to Arizona and back no problems...get home yesterday it breaks down fuel pump has went out on it...we were definitely being watched over on our trip. Going to cook a nice dinner for Valentines Day and give kids their presents..Matt is on call this week so we are going to have a private celebration tonight after kids get in bed for our Valentines.

Tuesday I have to go into the law office the secretary said my inbox got so full she had to get a box and start putting my work over into it, ugh so going to be lots of catching up to do on that front. Usually I can do my work from home I pick it up and bring it home and it takes a few hours but after missing 3 weeks I am afraid of all that will be behind because nothing is done on those cases unless I do it including important deadline issues...yet another stresser. I also have two other attorneys I do freelance work for and both have work for me that of course needs done right away. Braden will have speech and Brittney basketball practice.

Wednesday I have to go to town to do some shopping my SIL and BIL are renewing their vows (they hate each other and fight all the time but SIL (who is also nuttier than a fruit cake) didn't have a real wedding first time so after 4 years of marriage and two kids under 3 has decided she wants one so is spending money they don't have and throwing a terribly tacky wedding (example she is wearing a black and purple lace dress down the aisle..enough said) on the 26th) anyway I need something to wear to the blessed event..(eyes rolling..LOL). I also am working on Brittney's costume for her rise and shine program at school on the 25th where she is to dress as a book character she is going to be the Cat and the Hat have to find the hat.

Thursday and Friday are not yet planned I do have to call the dentist this week and get in to get my crown permanetly put on as my appointment was suppose to be last week but of course we were gone and my tooth is really bothering me and I will have to plan some more time to do some of my paralegal work. Braden will have speech Thursday and another doc appt on Friday so Thurs and Friday will fill up soon enough. Also totally adjusting the way we eat and it takes time to plan menus make sure lunches are healthier need to go around town find some more organic shopping places and so on.

And with the above I also have to do the mail, bills, medical, work, the basic household things....I know that Matt is willing to help but I honestly fear cleaning up the mess more than the stress of doing it myself. It's me not him, I know that, I have to learn to let things be a different way than the way I perceive that they need to be done....I just have to get that mentality into my head and live with it and so far I cant quite get to that point, until then I will just vent about being busy busy!

Ready for the week.

I am anticipating at least a somewhat easier week than last week.

I have worked most of the afternoon on preparing for the week.

Tommorow we will get Braden's glasses and at this point he is looking forward to them. Ask him and he will tell you "I am going to be a handsome dude"...LOL.

Will be having lots going on in the evenings this week but I can keep it all going with a goal in site. Friday night my parents are taking the kids for the night and Matt and I are going on a date. I received a $50.00 gift card to a Japanese steakhouse from the lawyer I helped out last week as a little extra on top of payday which wont be till the 31st. Anyway Matt and I are going to get to go out together so even if it is a stress filled week I can look forward to some wonderful hubby time. The kids will also be looking forward to going to nana and papa's for the night. They get spoiled rotten when they are there. Example it had been 6 days since my parents had seen the kids and you would have thought it had been 6 months.

Involvement in kids school.

Friday night...yeah...my week of working at the office is over.

This morning I met to work on the elementary yearbook before going into the law office. The yearbook is one of the responsibilities of PTA, and since I am president of PTA this year I am in charge. Our school is not huge but good size the elementary has 465 enrolled. Out of this there are about 20 parents involved in PTA. Trying to get more parents involved we have sent home notes about working on the yearbook and scheduled both an evening and a day time to work on it to accommodate both working schedules. This morning there were 5 total. This is after sending home 465 notes to parents about this mornings time and Monday evening's time. I was talking to one of the PreK teachers that had my kids the last years and she said parent involment is down very low she has maybe 2 parents that are involved at all in a class of 18 kids.

I notice the difference in my two kids classrooms in my daughters class there is a group of us we request the same teacher each year and have gotten close and the rooms are always packed with parents on party days and maybe 5 kids don't have parents there out of the 20 kids in the room. In my son's class there about a total of 5 parents or guardians. I understand that not everyone can take off work but there are so many other ways to be involved in your kids school and with their activities. I just think it is sad that there is so little involvement. Of course I am on the opposite end and can't seem to say no so I am volunteered for everything...and tend to almost drive myself crazy. But all in all I wouldn't change it I would rather be pulling my hair out because I am trying to get stuff done than not be involved.

A laid back day

It was nice didn't do much today. We went to church this morning came home to lunch done in the crock pot, cleaned up and got organized for the week. Mostly just rested watched the kids play their playstation II...watched hubby play it too (I now am positive that I should have counted that as one of his Christmas gifts instead of one of the kids gifts...lol).

Nice to have these laid back days sometimes, especially knowing this is going to be a busy week.

As soon as...

As soon as school starts I will have more time...
As soon as I get PTA lined out I will have more time...
As soon as we get in a routine with Braden's speech and doctors I will have more time....
As soon as Brittney's birthday party is done I will have more time...
As soon as Thanksgiving is over I will have more time...
As soon as the Holidays are over I will have more time....

All the above "as soon as" have passed and I still don't have more time. I keep thinking things will lighten up but I just seem to have life on super speed and can't slow it down. Between helping with things at the school, doing freelance paralegal work, Braden's medical and just the daily running of things it never slows.

My dear hubby has been attempting to take things off my plate and I know a lot of my busy schedule is my own fault because I dont delegate well, but I like things done a certain way and it just really gets me if things arent done that way. I try to be flexible but I like organization I know this at times drive hubby crazy.

I am going to try to give him more to do (he may regret asking)
I am going to try to be more flexible and once I give things to him forget about them.
I am going to try to say no to projects from teachers and ect that I really dont have time for.

Of course my "I am going to try" list may turn out like my "as soon as" list and just be that a list....but...I am going to try...as soon as...things slow down!

Holiday Craziness!

I did good on blogging for about a week but as my husband recently reminded me it's been over a month!...My excuse....HOLIDAYS! Just crazy, I finally think I am done with all the shopping and I think of something else that would just be perfect with this or that or for this person or that person. Add to that the baking, the school parties, the 4H parties, the work and family obligations and my November and December are blurs of activity! The unfortunate thing is I dont see it slowing down much already next week my daughter is having a slumber party, I am babysitting for a friend, and New Years Eve is lurking too be planned! Maybe soon it will calm down, the kids are out of school till the 3rd and so at least I wont have teachers saying..."Oh Mrs. Cole do you mind doing.....so and so.

Insomnia

I got up at 4am this morning I have had an awful cold and it is making sleeping hard. I keep waiting for it to go away but so far it is lingering. And of course this is just the start of cold season. Too add to not feeling well this time of year seems especially hectic, with Brittney turning 7 yesterday, Matt coming home from a business trip, holidays around the corner. Seems I am juggling more balls in the air than usual. I do have most of the birthday loot put away now. Last night was a 4H Fall party and I had several moms ask if there was anything left to buy Brittney for Christmas. My reply was not much after that birthday! This week will be crazy as well because I have to take my son Braden who is 5 to Little Rock for a 8 hour EEG, for ongoing ruling out of health issues. Well I should try to get some other stuff done since i am up at this wonderful hour.

Busy busy busy

This is one of those weeks where I will look back and ask myself how we got it all done.
Taking my son to speech 5 days a week, preparing to cater a wedding on Saturday and leave right after for one week away from home a mixed medical trip/vacation trip. My son has a procedure appointment at Austin CHidlrens this will be his last one so that is WONDERFUL news. We also plan some fun going to Schliterban in New Braunsfel Texas and Sea World in San Antonio and some outlet mall shopping on the way home. I had been hired to cater the wedding months ago and didnt know we would have to have Braden in Austin on the Monday so it just all happened to hit at once. Today I will be starting my cooking and doing the last of the shopping, running errrands and getting stuff ready frot he trip and hopefully getting packed tonight. So I will be ready for some rest next week for sure.
Kelli