Does it never stop?

I have been on my computer from 7:00 this morning working... I took two 5 minute breaks to make the kids breakfast and lunch. I just got an email telling me that I just sent out a press release with the wrong stuff on it... just one more thing... I was just going to go take a shower too!

I don't care what it takes but I am going to get everything done so I can enjoy my break next week - because I am going to need it. I am going away next Tuesday morning and Monday night I am going to set up an automatic response saying "Sorry I can not read your email right at this exact second, but I am at the Happiest Place on Earth right now and would appreciate not being bothered by your work."

Ok, so it won't be that rude, but I am getting tired. I know I said that I wanted to be a stay at home mom that can work from home, but lately it feels like all I have been doing is work and not being a mom or housewife - and the state of the house can prove that.

Ok, enough for that rant - I just had to get it out. 8 more days... 8 more days...

later edit... a shower and feelgood music makes everything better... now that work stuff is done, I can get to what I had planned for today - planning the next month of homeschooling...

Woohoo!

I swept and scrubbed the kitchen floor! It feels so good! I am going to try and get the house clean one room at a time before we go to the Tri-Cities this weekend. I really want this weekend to be a time off - I need this weekend to be a vacation and be able to come back restful...

Today I got my All-city work done before 1:00 - that felt weird. Normally it's 8:30pm until I get it done and that's only because I don't like making phone calls to people I don't know after that time. Anyway, I took advantage of not needing to do anything pressing and prepared homeschool for the rest of the week. Hopefully I can spend some time tonight/tomorrow and plan next week so when I come home on Sunday, I won't have much to do to prepare for the week. Who knows?! Maybe I'll be able to come home on Sunday and watch football with my husband! I was so looking forward to this season with out having to do homework for school - now I am just doing homework for homeschool. Oh well, it seems like the games that I have (kind of) watched while cleaning/working have had tons of penalties and have been slow moving. I so wish Peyton Manning was in... Peyton - this was suppose to by my year to enjoy football!

Sorry, I will move away from lamententing. Anyway, hopefully I can get the house clean, homeschool ready, and maybe even cook dinner to have it in the fridge! Maybe...

I am making grape juice tonight... its fun to watch it come down the tube. Elijah helped me separate the grapes before bed, so when it was time to open the tube up and let the juice come down I got him out of bed to see it. He was excited - but then he asked if I could get him when it comes down again. Give them an inch and they want a foot ;-)

Well, I better go. I need to research deals for carry-on luggage for our Disneyland trip and finish the kids grading system.

Special Family Council

Brian and the kids had a special family council last night for me. Brian took the kids into Quianna's room yesterday morning... I was wondering what was going on, but soon forgot about it.

Last night before bed, the kids and Brian sat on the couch across from me and they each took turns telling me how I have impacted them and told a story about me.

Elijah's likes how I make breakfast for them every morning and that I homeschool him. The story was that I would say, "I am going to homeschool, I am not going to homeschool... I am going to homeschool... I am not going to homeschool etc" He thought that was funny.

Quianna likes how I make good dinners and that I homeschool them. Her story was when I first came into the family and we had curry one night for dinner. Before that it was always buritos and hot dogs. She remembers the first night we had curry and she thought "Ooo! We're eating fancy" and she says now we eat fancy all the time. What's funny about this is that Brian introduced curry to me. It must have been introduced to the kids around the same time because they associate it with me.

Brian appreciates how he can have a peace of mind while he is away, knowing that his children are taken care of and being nurtured. He also likes how I have turned holidays into something magical and special for our family. He said if it was just him, it wouldn't happen. His story was the other day when he had to work late at EWU and didn't have much time to come home and eat before going to Gonzaga. I had his lunch ready to go mobile for him. When he said he was going to eat at home, I quickly adapted. He also mentioned how the lunch fit his needs perfectly as he was sick. He said he appreciates the countless times that I think of things similar to that to take care of him.

So, I learned last night that my family really likes my food. :-) Elijah - breakfast, Quianna - dinners, and Brian - lunch. :-)

Brian stressed at the end of the discussion how much better the family is with me. This was a really needed family council for me because lately I have been so uptight with so much going on that I have felt like all I bring to the family is a complaining iron fist. I was telling Brian how I feel like such a loser because I am not succeeding at anything. We talked about that - He said that right now I have just bitten off more than I can chew. It's true. Between All-City, homeschooling, Primary chorister, mom, and housewife - I just can't do everything at my 100%.

Today was better. I exercised (!), got the kitchen clean (no the floors weren't mopped, but the counters are clean and that's an accomplishment right now), we did homeschool very well, AND I did 2 hours of All-city work. I am tired. However, when Brian gets home tonight I am going shopping for food. I hope he comes home quickly because I would like to be in bed as close to 10:30 as possible.

Wish me luck!