Well, as quickly as the weekend came, it is now gone. I'm really starting to feel like I need to pay close attention to what I do each day since it comes and goes so fast. Some days I'm able to just sit and ponder(not many though lol) but most days the kids keep me busy. One thing I want to try and do more often and take a deep breath and look around and see my surroundings, see how I'm relating to my family, and hopefully do a better job at being a daughter to my mom, wife to my dh, and mom to my kids. I do myself being selfish and I don't like that. But I guess the biggest thing for my right now is at least I'm acknowledging it. First big thing right there.
Fri was spent trying to figure out what R was going to be doing over the weekend. His Sunday school class was wanting to say a goodbye to their current teacher by going over to his house and having a nice party. Trouble was, the teacher was leaving it up to the boys to make decisions, and unfortuantely this group of boys is really struggling to make any decisions. Really frustrating when we're trying to plan what to do, but having go guidlines. Well, I finally had R email his teacher asking what was happening and we finally got some directions. So Fri evening, around 6:30 dh took R over to the teacher's house for fun and games. The girls stayed home with mom. By the time he was ready to come home, it was 10pm so does took off to get him and they didn't return until almost 11.
Once he got home, we sent the kids off to bed and dh and I worked on the ward bulletin. This is my first time and I was a bit nervous as to how to do it. Dh helped out quite a bit, so now I'm feeling a bit better about it. However, while filling out the songs, talks, and announcements, dh noticed that his name was down for giving a talk in a few weeks. I then look around and see my name for 2 weeks from now. Guess I'm giving a talk as well. lol
With the kids having had a late night, they had a little harder time getting up Sat to get ready and clean the church. This has been our month to either clean with help from some of the familes assigned to us, or having them do it on their own. I think we've had help the 3 times we've gone there. I don't mind doing it, but I know the kids aren't always thrilled. However, my thought it, this is teaching them responsibilites and helping them to learn that they need to take care of things.
After we were done cleaning we headed to Aldi's for some food. Came home and let dh rest for a bit. Bad back. The kids played for awhile, then we went out to lunch. We have this Chinese buffet place that is soooo good. We go as often as we can, which is probably too often lol. It has good prices and good food. Then we went sandal shopping for all 3 kids. We've now decided for sure that R and N have caught up in shoe size with dh and I. R is now a size 12 very comfortably. I imagine in a yr or less he'll be a bit bigger. His feet are HUGE. Of course he's also taller than me at 5' 9". N is also my shoe size AND is liking to wear the same type of shoes I am. In fact she ended up choosing the same exact type of shoe AND color that I have. So this means I have to write a letter K in my shoe so we won't get them mixed up. Too funny. She also found some Sunday shoes as did S.
We then headed home since S was getting tired and cranky. Besides we needed to get R home since he had yet another activity happening. He was going with the youth of the ward to a baseball game compliments of our former bishop. R knows nothing about the game, but goes to at least mingle with his friends. He came home last yr all excited about things that had happened. Had no clue on who won, and didn't care. lol Again, N stayed up late to wait for brother. S went to bed on time since she was getting tired. Good thing, because R didn't get home until after 10, again.
Sunday we get ourselves ready for church. I also find out that R and dh have fast offerings to do before church, so R showers after I did and dh and R went out to do their errand. We then head to church for dh's early meeting. I actually don't mind going early since it gives us plenty of time to find a seat and then relax. R also has the sacrament table the needs to prepare. So we did our classes and afterwards were getting ready to head home when the young men's pres. caught dh and asked him to join in for a scout committee meeting. So off he went for 45 min. I didn't mind since it meant I could chat with my friends who's dh's were also in the meeting. The kids just kind of chatted along.
We get home around 5:30 hungry and with small headaches due to hunger. We relax and just eat and watch a bit of tv. Early evening, as I'm reading to S for bedtime, the phone rings. It's one of the bishopric calling. I immediately think it's for dh since it usually is. Wrong! Turns out it's for me. I had forgotten that they were going to call me to give a talk on Father's Day. lol
Now it's Mon morning and time to start a new day AND a new week. Dh is on call this week, so we really don't plan much with dh that will take a lot of time. This means no going out to eat or doing major shopping. Which is why we did it over the weekend. We're also just hoping for a nice quiet week. Dh's on call weeks lately have been quite busy. Once can only hope.
Karie
www.kariesplace.robertcity.com
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