Insanity!!

That's my life in a nutshell.

Not only does that word describe the current state of my calendar, it could also be used to describe various other aspects my life. Like my house, my kids, my husband, my brain. I just need to ramble here for a bit and get it all out of my system....

First off, June is the busiest time of the whole year for us. Every year I expect that, but I am never quite prepared for how hard it slams me up against the wall. Seriously. It started off with a huge joint birthday party for me, my mommy, my sweet granny, my youngest boy and in memory of my deeply missed brother. It was a great way to start the month, except Abby took a hard fall on the floor and put her two front teeth through her lip. Bummer.

The next day was spent trying to juggle babysitters while Shawn and I worked as ushers at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. This was a fun assignment, but a little difficult to schedule with work and everything else. It's a beautiful temple and I am excited to be in that district. Shawn is signed up to work four more times, but that was the only time I will get to be there in that capacity.

Thursday came and since we had been eating cold cereal for dinner the past three nights I decided I better take a trip to Costco. I pushed my huge cart all around the store for an hour, so proud that I was getting something accomplished when......blahhhhh.....Abby throws up all over the floor, the cart, the diaper bag and oh ya...me. So much for grocery shopping. I grab Abby, hightail it out of the store sans groceries (telling one of the employees on my way out that there was a major cleanup on aisle 7) and spend the rest of the day cleaning up after her at home. Oh well, I guess we can have cereal one more night, right?

The next day was my birthday which I spent taking my parents to the airport for their 8 day Alaskan cruise, teaching piano lessons and working at the pharmacy. My sweet hubby and kids came to visit me though and brought me a piece of my birthday cake that they had made for me. Awwwww.

Saturday was then our 14th wedding anniversary. I went to work in the morning, but came home ever so excited because Shawn and I were going to get to spend a whole 24 hours together without the kids! Yay! We packed our bags for our little overnighter and dropped the kiddies at Uncle Craig's. We checked into the Little America tower suite, did a little shopping, eating, and well, you know how those things go. We fell asleep around midnight after I told Shawn "I'm not feeling so well....no....really....I'm not." An hour later I was barfing my guts out (thanks Abby) and continued to do so the rest of the night. The good news is that puking at the Little America isn't so bad because their toilets are VERY clean! About 5 a.m. Shawn decided we better check out and go home. That was a good idea, but my poor little tummy didn't like the elevator ride down 15 flights. You guessed it, I puked again, but luckily my hubby was thinking ahead and had a plastic bag waiting just for me. The next day was spent nursing me back to health amid much whining and complaining (by me, not Shawn) and a four hour power outage that night due to lightning.

Yesterday I was starting to feel better, but knew I had lots to catch up on. I tried to get things done but ended up taking a two hour nap with Abby because I was just so darn exhausted. I taught piano again that afternoon and when Shawn got home I went to my parent's house to take dinner to and "granny sit" my Grandma while my parents are gone. She is such a funny lady. It's awesome to spend some one on one time with her!

Today I had an appointment for my first ever "physical". My cholesterol is insanely high and I've known for a while that I need to get it checked out. The appointment wasn't so bad except I didn't have my insurance card with me because I forgot I had to wash everything in my wallet from when Abby puked in it. So my card was in a tidy little plastic bag sitting on my counter. They were going to make me reschedule, but I begged them to please call the insurance company for the information. Anyway, it all worked out.

Tonight I am going to Grandma's again, work tomorrow, Grandma's again on Thursday and then our good friends the Hymas' will be in town! Woo hoo! Somewhere in there I need to write the talk I'm supposed to give in sacrament meeting on Sunday and figure out a way to get Alex to his week long scout camp that he's missing because they scheduled it even though the 6th graders are still in school. I can't forget that it's Seth's birthday on Saturday which I haven't planned one eensy weensy bit of it and I also need to pick up my parent's from the airport that night and find a way to attend a pool party. Maybe I can figure out all of that tomorrow morning while I'm at the dentist's office with Abby because I just looked in her mouth this morning and I think she knocked her front tooth loose when she fell on her face a week ago! Hopefully Shawn will have enough time to fix the brakes tonight on the van, since they just started making this horrid, awful, grinding noise last night. This is especially important because we are supposed to drive it down to St. George next weekend for a fabulous getaway, which I need to plan and pack for plus figure out Father's day stuff and how am I going to work at night when Shawn leaves the next day for his week long "manager's retreat" at Lake Powell? And like the gullible person that I am I agreed to be the PTA Treasurer again this year and that means that the end of our year is June 30th! Can you say "reports up the wazoo and hours and hours of reconciling"? ***sigh***

Yes, my life feels like it's too much for me to handle sometimes, but really I wouldn't trade my life for anybody else's. (well, maybe I could think of a few people) I have to remember to count my blessings every day and be ever so grateful for my amazing family, friends and neighbors. They make all of this chaos worth it!

(Uh oh...I better hurry and post this since I left my power cord to my laptop at my Grandma's last night and my battery is going to die any second now...)

:)