There's a snake in my boot

Once again, I have a million blog posts to catch up on, but I want to start with a little one about this very day!  Well actually it started last Thursday…

Thursdays are a little nutty around here!  Kara is now at Yreka High!  She decided at the last minute to do swim team just to stay active.  Swimming isn’t really near and dear to her heart but moving around sure is!  (I think she’s starting to love it!)  Practice is from 3:00 – 6:00 Monday through Friday.  Casey, Kamryn and Mason are all at Grenada Elementary still.  Casey is doing volleyball which is from 4:30 – 6:00 every day.  Kamryn and Mason both play soccer – in Yreka!  Kam practices from 5:30 – 7:00 on Wed and Thu and Mason practices from 5:30 – 6:30 on Monday and Thursday.  My point is…there’s a lot of driving going on!  AND Thursday is a day that all 4 have practice and I pretty much need to be in 8 places at once! 

So…after alllllll the driving and scrambling of the day I had a car full of kids at Greenhorn @ 7:00 waiting to pick up Kamryn.  I ran over to watch the last 2 minutes of practice and soaked in those moments of my only alone time of that day (cuz I failed to mention the 3 little boys who kept me on my toes all day!).  Beautiful day I might add!  K, so I’m standing there watching Kam play this game I used to LOOOOVE playing, feeling a little jealous, wishing I had a second to take off and spread my wings when this OLD FART walks up to me and says, “so, did ya just get yer jog in?” I replied, “I wish!!!!” And he looked at me like I was some kind of pathetic loser and says, “Uhhh, it’s eeeeeaaassssyyyyy!”  Like duuuhhhhh!  I just flashed him my sheepish crooked grin.  :/ 

I know I have no excuse.  It really is eaaaasssssy to load the boys up in the ginormous double stroller that doesn’t turn that’s falling apart from dry rot since the garage is the girls’ bedroom and strap my 3 month old on my belly and a triple diaper bag on my back (cuz you know one will get hungry or poop or puke right after take-off) in between naps and feedings and school and practice and dinner and “Back to School Night” and and and….so I can JOG GREENHORN so I’m not picked on by an OLD FART!  K, I’m not trying to be mean, but people look forward to retirement for a reason!

I’m still working on the 4 o’clock a.m. alone time but I’m sorta tired lately.

So to sum it up, we all have our own definition of productivity!  Right now my definition isn’t quite the same as Mr. Showoff Old Fart’s :)!  But to brag a little…today I put a roast in so dinner will be ready on time, did a couple loads of laundry (including soccer uniforms) fed a couple kids a couple times, watered my plants, (found the tube of gorilla glue while I was up by the plants!  Yay!), vacuumed a tub of popcorn out of the boys’ room, untangled Woody’s body from underneath JD’s crib, found Woody’s long lost head (AND HAT!!) and Gorilla glued the two parts back together!  AND fixed the broken WoodyBuzz chair!  Wheeew!  Yep, that’s right!  I saved Woody’s life and made my baby boy smile!  So take that Mr. Old Fart!  :D