Hey! It's May 13th and my first post of the month. It's not that I am trying to ignore y'all, it's just that it's May and the madness has begun (check out Mad May 2010 and the same from 2012).
And you know my new job? It kind of interferes with my life. Besides working, here's what I been doing since I last talked to you:
I washed and dried my family's sheets 2 times and hung them on the line to make them smell good. I attended 1 going-away party, 1 graduation party, 1 baby shower, 1 band concert, 1 worship concert, 1 night of work on a Friday eve, 1 track banquet (I skipped the 2nd one), 2 track meets, 2 connection groups, 3 staff meetings, 3 lunch meetings (one at El Azteca), and visited Sam's club too many times to mention. I made 3 special trips to HyVee to buy Kale for my husband, 12 cupcakes to celebrate the now-ignored May Day, and fed 16 extra people (at different times--not including my family) at my house. I produced no-bakes in 15 minutes for an event I had to leave for in 30, sewed 2 puppy towels, ironed 1 shirt for my son, and ran 7 very fast miles with my long-legged daughter. I sent a package to my mother-in-law, a package to my finals-taking daughter and a package to someone unknown (for Luke). I rode around a local lake for 2 long hours with some energetic 9 year old boys for the local Christian school bike-a-thon and the day after that I earned my yellow belt in boot camp, even though my legs were pretty sore. I helped create 1 video (on a bad hair day) to highlight women's ministry and I recruited 12 volunteers for the welcome team at church. I made bone broth in my crock pot. I made yogurt in my crock pot. And one day, I put a roast in my crock pot, but forgot to plug it in--that means big disappointment after being gone for 10 hours. I washed a neighbor's dishes, ate a neighbor's salad, and paid a neighbor big bucks for the damage to their car (It was not my fault. Someone else, whose name rhymes with roll, backed into them). I bought 2 tank tops, 2 t-shirts, and a pair of shorts in order to usher in summer (since we skipped spring) and I invited 20 people and millions of children to my house for a work brunch next week. That means I need to plant 3 flower beds and 2 flower pots, replace 2 dead bushes and remove 5 piles of dog poop from the sidewalk before they arrive. In the remaining days of the month, I still need to attend 1 member's banquet, 1 coffee date, 3 discipling dates, 2 grad parties, 1 band concert, 1 bridal shower, 1 American citizenship celebration, and 1 fund-raising carwash for the kids. I also have 1 potluck at my house (not to be confused with the aforementioned brunch) in 8 days, 1 storytelling time for Sunday, and 1 fine day of moving my college girl back home. Oh, and Cole wants me to make curtains for his tree house when I have time.
One of these days (not in May), I will again have time to produce inspiration and wit which I will post on this here blog. But now, I must retire so I can get my 5 hours of beauty sleep.
And then I will make curtains.
Amen.
ReplyDelete(You ate a neighbor's salad- hahaha!- probably because Brent ate all the kale)
Also, I was going to do a similar post, sort of like Shel Silverstein's Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out about how I was very busy and life was piling up all around me, but then I succumbed to my sister's pressure and now I might get a book deal out of it. Hah!