We Survived, I think!

This week has been a crazy busy week culminating with a crazy busy weekend. I told Matt it would be nothing short of a miracle if we all got to all our places and home again at some point with only minor damage. I guess this post is a little early since Madsen and Sully are still out. It was performance week of the musical so rehearsals every night that lasted longer than usual kicked it all off. Add in soccer, scouts, and who knows what and mix it all up. Matt and I went to the play on Thursday so the kids were on their own around 6:00 til nearly 10:00. Friday night Waverly and Sully were in the play so I was with them while Matt took the other 3 to a Boy Scout camp out, technically, he was supposed to stay but decided against it. It rained all night so we were kind of hoping soccer games would be canceled. Almost lucky! Only Sully's was canceled, which hate to say it, but that is the game we mostly want to see! But that did leave us with only 2 games.

Saturday happenings: Garage Sale from 7:00 til 12:00, play performance with Waverly at 2:oo( Sully had to be there at 1:00), Madsen arrived home from camping and informed us he was going to the ward picnic with friends, phone call from Mads asking why we haven't picked him up yet, he wanted to go to the play... Matt drives out to get Madsen while I take Sully to play, Wave home for little nap so she can be a happy elephant bird, performance over, drop Madsen off at church for scripture mastery event which leads to youth dance, Sully home for food and cleaning the bathroom! Rotten child! Back to school at 6:00 for final performance. Thought it would be fun to take the 3 kids with us so we stopped at AC Moore. It was not fun. Home for dinner, at which point Cannon informed us he never had lunch. Hmmm, where was he (or where was I) when he needed lunch? baths, dishes, 3 kids in bed, 2 still out. Sully wants to go midnight bowling with the cast. Guess who is way too tired for that one to happen? It has been chaotic and exhausting, but we have survived and now that this weekend is over all the others look like a walk in the park. 3 soccer games in a day, no problem!

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Last night I was sitting at the computer, Waverly was eating ice cream, Cannon was quiet. That should have been my first clue that something was going on. He was not on the Wii or tv or even asking for one of these to be turned on. He came over with my camera and said, " I deleted some of the dumb pictures." Great, I think, what does he consider dumb? "There were ugly ones of chairs and stuff." I am getting ready to put stuff on Craigslist which is why I have ugly pictures of chairs and stuff. So I asked him if he deleted pictures of people, his response, "just the dumb ones, like from Sully's birthday." Oh my heavens child! I looked at the remaining pictures and discovered what this precious child that I love so much had been doing for the past 15 minutes. Taking pictures of himself with his tongue out and/or finger up his nose and deleting EVERY picture that was not him or Waverly!

I did a pretty good job of not completely losing it on the child. No real sense in destroying the child over something that can't be un-done. I did tell him that I was sad, that those pictures are gone and that he can never touch the camera again. He cried. I felt bad-ish. Then we sat down and read the BFG.

I hope a lesson was learned, by both of us.

Sagging Sparkle

We bought a cute book for Waverly last week. It is all about a little girl who believes she is a fairy princess. She always wears pink, a crown and wings. The story is all about how she is a fairy princess and what she does to keep her sparkle. She does a couple of things to keep her sparkle from sagging.

I feel like MY sparkle is sagging. I feel like I do a lot of things but yet, I never DO anything. Nothing ever feels accomplished because I have to do the same things over and over again day in and day out. Some of the things I do can hardly even be noticed once they are done. I just feel a total lack of accomplishment. I feel like I am not doing anything of any worth or value. Yes, I know that taking care of my home and family is the most important and valuable thing I can be doing. And I love them and I love taking care of them. I hear those words and deep down I do believe it. I just don't feel it right now. Even that work won't show its true fruits for many years.

I don't even know what I want to do. Something that has an end and an accomplishment that I can notice. Something that makes me feel good and happy again, like I am more than a lady with kids and groceries in my car. I guess maybe something for me instead of someone else. Is that horribly selfish?

I like to make things look pretty. My house, my yard, my daughter :) I guess I am looking for a change. A change that does not cost a ton of money that I can do with my tag along Fairy Princess.

I feel like I am loosing me in the chaos and mundaness of my life. Can life be chaotic and mundane at the same time?

I want to empty out my house and get rid of all the junk. I want empty spaces. I want less. That would feel good! Can I convince my people? Should I worry about that?

My sparkle is sagging and I need to find away to make me sparkle again.

Frequent Flyers

A few of us have colds we are suffering with this week. Waverly has had a fever for a few days and has been yelling at her ears so I decided to take her to the doctor to check ears. Her appointment was at 10:20. The doctor checked her ears, found a big glob of wax blocking his view so he used a funky little ear wax scoop and cleared it out. Sure enough, infections in both ears. We headed to the grocery store pharmacy for her amoxicilin and yogurt. I put her down for her nap at 1:40 and immediately the phone rings. The elementary school with Cannon in the office complaining about his ear hurting. Cannon tends to whine and complain a lot over nothing. I told him to please be tough, school is almost over and I just put Wave down. I am sure they had me on speaker phone because the office lady ever so kindly, told me that they had had him crying in the office for 30 minutes already and he just needs to go home. Fine! I get to the school and decide to take Declan home with me as well so I won't have a conflict with the bus in case I can get Cannon to the doctor. I called the doctor from the car and after telling her our name she said, "did you have another child in here this morning?" Why, yes I did! So I had time to get Declan and Waverly home and Madsen to get home so I could leave them and head back to the doctor. The receptionist laughed as she asked if my address, phone or insurance had changed since this morning. The nurse asked if I had had so much fun this morning I couldn't stay away and commented how the doctor had been showing everyone Waverly's chart amazed that this was her first sick visit of her life. Then when the doctor came in he also laughed at me for coming back. Checked Cannon and sure enough, ear infection. He had had one in January in his right ear. This one is in the left. I made sure to ask if he was fine to go back to school so Cannon would hear it from the doctor that yes, he could go to school. Back to the pharmacy for round two of amoxicilin. The pharmacist also laughed at me and filled the prescription with a "you know what to do with this, but he needs 2 teaspoons."

At least our insurance is good so the doctor visits and the antibiotics cost me a total of $0!

Trying out

 

 

This week is soccer try out week at the middle school. I hope he gets on that team! He is a good player and the rec league at this age is pretty lame. We can't do the travel leagues for several reasons and I want him to be able to continue improving and playing this game he loves! I am a nervous wreck! He said yesterday went pretty well but he has to have goalie gloves to try out as a goalie so that is my assignment of the day. They try out today and tomorrow and then there will be a list of those invited back on Thursday and the team will be listed on Friday. I only have 2 more afternoons of ulcer inducing anxiety until we know if he makes the team. Then we will have to deal with soccer versus musical...

The End of an Era

CARY - The date Feb. 2, 2011 will be remembered for the rest of Panther Creek's wrestling history. It is the night it won its first conference championship — but more importantly, it was the night they ended three of Cary's winning streaks that had last 20 years or more.

It was Cary's first home regular-season loss since 1982 (410 straight matches) and first conference loss since 1990. It will mark the first time Cary has not won a conference title since 1983.

The Catamounts (18-2, 8-0) won 31-25, but needed a final-bout win from senior Anthony Mejia to pull off the biggest win in program history. Cary (25-3, 7-1).

"I really don't know what to say. I'm beside myself," Panther Creek Jon Armfield said. "If we were going to do it, this was the year to do it."

This is part of an article in the Cary News about last nights wrestling victory. Madsen was so excited, even though he wrestled JV, he was part of the team and will now have this to build on in the next 3 years. We are excited for the boys. It is so much fun to be part of something like this and although it sounds silly, they will remember it fondly for the rest of their lives. Good job Panther Creek!

what to do?

How do you keep your mind off of something troubling that you won't know the reality of for several weeks? How do you not go into panic mode when said event could have a very real and significant effect on your life? What do you do about it when it is completely out of your control? Live life as normal? Make small changes now just in case? Make big changes now just in case? Say lots of prayers and hold on tight?