There's a Shel Silverstein poem that pretty much sums up the kind of week I've been having. It's called "What A Day." For those of you not familiar with his poems (we quote them like crazy in our family) click on this link:
http://www.qu-i-x.com/aday.html (you have to see the illustration, it's priceless....)
It hasn't been a bad week. But it's been a crazy one. On the heels of a wonderful relaxing visit with our dear friends we get to see way too seldom I jumped immediately into School Preparations.
Doesn't *sound* intimidating does it? But between organizing whose school supplies were whose, finding clean clothes that still fit (I swear they all grew 3 inches this summer), shoes that were appropriate (i.e. not flipflops) and also fit, finding and labeling backpacks, lunch bags, jackets, buying suitable lunch box fare (healthy snacks, boxed juice), getting everyone to bed on time, getting everyone *up* on time, getting them both on the right bus at the right time, waiting for dear son's bus *forever*, both coming and going, because they tried a new system this year (and it failed, they're going back to the old one), running the put off errands, caring for the toddler who now misses his brother and sister all day, buying groceries (still not restocked from the fridge disaster), doing many of husband's jobs because husband has been putting in 14 hour days this week, and sleeping about 4 hours a night - well, I feel like I've been in a triathalon. Or more like a dodecathalon (a dodecahedron has 10 sides....geek moment, sorry). Yikes, I'm exhausted.
And then Friday night I drove up to my friend D's house to help her paint a stage set. Well, we had a great time catching up, but the painting didn't go so well. A hint....never buy cheap spray paint, you will practically asphyxiate yourself before you get your project finished. I'm now researching cheap effective paint for stage set design (suggestions, anyone?)
Oh, and today I took my daughter to get a haircut.....in the middle of a hurricane. Well, a tropical storm. Whatever you call it, it was a deluge from about noon until suppertime. So after we got home (safely, thank goodness....and her hair looks really cute!) I declared it a Hurricane Day and we officially did NOTHING. We were complete and utter couch potatoes for the whole afternoon. I took a nap.....and we ordered Chinese food for supper. Daughter and I went to get it and as we drove home in freshly washed sunny skies, with the windows wide open, the beautiful clean breeze was like a benediction prayer on my really busy week.
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I could hear the William Tell Overture playing doubletime in the background as I read! "Look! Out on the road! It's a hummingbird! It's a caffeinated chinchilla! No! It's SUPERMOM!" :) Glad you got some sabbath time at the end of it all, tho'.
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