The intro to one of my all-time favorite shows, Days of Our Lives (which, incidentally, I no longer watch because it has really gotten bad....I've tried coming back to it a few times, but it never holds my attention for longer than a few weeks). My life feels like sands through the hourglass...one day flowing into the next, one week down, a weekend, another week, before I know it, a month has gone by. I just want to put on the brakes! I am, as always, very busy, and things are busy everywhere! Cameron has started up with karate for another six weeks, and that is on Tuesday nights at 6:00. Every other Tuesday, Alex has Boy Scouts at 6:30 or 7:00, and he has choir on Wednesday mornings. Not to mention being a mom who works, has to come home and make supper, help with homework, etc. I am trying not to complain, because this is the path I have chosen for myself, but I honestly need an extra hour or two in the day! Ed has been pretty busy with tax prep this year, although it is APRIL 16 (!!!!!) so it should be wrapping up (just a few odds and ends, yet), so he will--hopefully--provide some respite.
This is the first year that I am actually looking forward to summer vacation for the boys. I generally love the structure that school provides, I loved it when I was a kid, and still do. But it has been so demanding to try to stay on top of everything, to make sure the homework is not only done, but is done correctly, to do study guides when there are tests, to work on spelling words, and oh, don't forget the 20 minutes of reading every night. Our house feels like an army barrack, with every minute accounted for in the evening. Now that the weather is nice, the kids want to be outside, which is great, but it makes squeezing all of that stuff into the 2.5 hours we have in the evening before bed a bit tricky! I also never look forward to summer vacation because of the huge hit of full-time daycare for three kids (spendy, spendy, spendy). But, that money will be well worth it to not have to deal with the craziness of school!
Anyway, enough ranting! We have all been healthy and well during this spring, with the exception of one little cold virus that is making the rounds. Not sure if it is a cold or if it is allergies. We recently exhumed all of the totes from our crawl-space and converted the crawl space into a play area. It was a musty, dusty job, but so worth it to have a place for the kids to play. Our house is pretty small (about 1900 total square feet), and we don't have a play-room, so it is nice to have a little place for them (trust me, it is little).
I am getting ready for Cameron's first communion, which is on May 3. Hard to believe that our little guy is getting that big. I was pretty emotional during Alex's First Communion, so maybe this year it won't be so hard because I am now expecting it to be emotional. (I had a hard time with it because it was the first event for one of my children that really had nothing to do with me. He was there in his little suit, doing his thing, and I just sat back and watched--I wasn't prepared for that to hit me, but it did).
Well, that post was pretty boring, but there is nothing much to say. We are loving this weather--who doesn't??--and I am getting antsy to get out into the garden. I'm outta here...
