I apologize.
Recently, my blog sucks.
And there is nothing that I really can do about it.
Here is why--in the last two and a half weeks, our schedule has involved ALL of the following: (Bore Warning--it's a LONG list)
Recently, my blog sucks.
And there is nothing that I really can do about it.
Here is why--in the last two and a half weeks, our schedule has involved ALL of the following: (Bore Warning--it's a LONG list)
- Dental Appointments for Molly & Drew
- Orthodontic Appointments for Anna & Jake
- Sports Awards Banquet
- Piano Recital for both girls
- Band/Choral Recital for Anna & Jake
- Baking treats for After-Recital Party
- Spring Music Recital for Molly & Drew
- Preparing for School-Wide Garage Sale at our home
- Chaperoning nine Freshmen who climbed our pool fence and "accidentally" fell in our pool floatie, only to then "accidentally" roll off into our pool, giggling head-over-heels, w/their uniforms on, while they were supposed to be unloading tables & plants for said Garage Sale...that was the GIRLS, of course then we had to let the boys get in also
- Staying up until 4 in the morning cleaning for scads of parent volunteers roaming for two days through our house...then getting up at 5:30AM to vacuum, putting the dog out the dog door until his grooming, getting the kids dressed and ready for school, putting still-sleeping, little punk Zac's breakfast on the table and finally, showering for arrival of volunteer Garage Sale Moms at 8:30AM. Going to bed at 11:30PM after twelve kids cooled off in pool. Then up at 6AM to shower, make two pots of coffee and ward off early birds from Garage Sale!
- Setting up and pricing 65 tables of "junk" and three tables of concessions with too many women all having their own opinion on how best to tackle the project--I was just too dang tired to like any of them at that point--I was ready to "fall out," as they say here in Alabama
- Hosting said Garage Sale
- Taking Anna, Jake and Molly to three different B-Day parties during Garage Sale
- Still haven't remembered to buy a present for two of the hosts of said B-Day parties--dangit!
- Filling Downtown Mission truck with leftover "junk" and taking two Dodge truckloads of leftover clothes to the church Clothes Pantry even after selling "junk" ALL DAY LONG!
- Watering, transporting to and from school and keeping watch over 65-75 "rare" Hostas at our home until the Mother's Day plant sale for our Student Leadership group
- Buying cards for: my Mom, his Mom, Mom & Dad's Anniversay, Mom Friends, the Grandmas, Bro's B-day, Drew's B-day, Wedding Shower and one Death
- Standing in long line because I just ran out of stamps and then Mailing said cards
- Hosting After-Garage Sale Party w/about 35 children, aching feet and back and a pretty good sunburn
- Cleaning nasty oil- and hair-covered pool after 35-child party
- Taking B-day party to Drew's class for his celebration--today
- Shopping for Drew's B-day gift
- Going to Chuck E. Cheese for Drew's B-day dinner, tonight--gotta' love Chuck E.!
- Attending Anna's National Junior Honor Society induction ceremony
- Shopping for dress & shoes for said NJHS induction ceremony
- Attending Mother's Day Tea in Drew's class, while leaving all the moms to sort garage sale items and then leaving Tea early to attend NJHS induction, all within one hour and while thunder was looming on the Garage Sale horizon--Thank You, Lord, it never did rain!
- Attending Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast
- Preparing Molly for trip to Tennessee Renaissance Festival
- Preparing Drew for class trip hiking in Green Mountain--tomorrow
- Helping Gerald put a new water pump on the Jeep
- Taking quick weekend trip to Six Flags over Atlanta w/Band
- Attending Soccer Team pizza party
- Buying Mother's Day gift
- Getting Tooth Fairy to reward yet another lost tooth
- Making appointment for dog grooming--and then forgetting appointment after Garage Sale, imagine that!
- Attending teacher meeting about Jake's goofing off in class and subsequent falling grades
- Starting new budget plan
- Volleyball tryouts
- Buying end-of-year teacher's gifts
- Teacher Appreciation Week--this week--which involved sending in four checks to four different Room Mothers, on top of two of the kids taking in a flower, homemade card, and a book for in-room library on different days this week
- Buying Wedding shower gift
- Attending Wedding shower
- Shopping for shoes for Molly who is in said Wedding in June
- Finding Jake's bowtie for his Band Recital
- Finding and buying a long-sleeve (in May?!), white shirt for Anna's Choral Recital
- Making sure Jake turned in his Weather project--yesterday
- Making sure Molly turned in her Family Coat of Arms project--yesterday
- Making sure all homework is completed and packed in backpacks
- Making sure all field trip permission slips are signed
- Making sure all field trip money is turned in
- Making sure all field trip shirts are laundered & dry
- Making sure all take-home papers are signed and packed in backpacks
- Making sure all Sports Uniforms are clean and turned in--Bball, Vball, Sball, Soccer, Track
- Keeping garden watered
- Keeping garden weeded--yeah, right!
- Keeping dog (and cat) fed & watered
- Trying to keep house straightened
- Trying to fix dinner every night--remember said NEW budget!
- Forget Laundry--it's a mountain--I've only been washing uniforms,undies and towels
- Keeping lunches packed--no school lunches--remember said NEW budget, again!
- Making (which, this week, meant buying) breakfast for our newest challenge--youth leaders at church's newly-acquired campus; forget visitation!
- Finding cat a new home--accomplished!!!
- Dropping off/Picking up Anna for Bible studies and Drama class practices
- Making costume for Molly's Medival Festival--due today
- Preparing Molly's eggs, bottles and matches for Science Fair--due tomorrow
- Making sure Molly's book report is done--due tomorrow
- Drew's class end-of-year party tomorrow night
- Drew's class parent-invited Arbonne party tomorrow night
- Teacher retirement party next week
- Awards ceremonies next week
- Three and a half days of school next week
- And one last field trip to, "Safety City" on Monday
Gerald's been trying to help but end-of-year meetings, hiring of new teachers, teaching a class, grading, keeping our yard and one other yard mowed, driving THE bus for endless field trips and trying to run the day-to-day operations of the school has him snowballed.
I thought after the last Track Meet, our life was gonna' slow way down-ha!
We're celebrating our 15th Anniversary in June...Mom and Dad will have the kids. We're gonna' go to Florida and just lay on the beach, literally. It CANNOT come soon enough.
I promise better blogs after school is out--IN ONE WEEK
I love my life but it's tiring and, as you can see, at times, it's CRAZYYY!!!
For now, I'm signing off and going to bed; needless to say, I've been sleeping GREAT.
6 comments:
What, that's it?? Please. Get back on the ball, would ya?
HOw were volleyball tryouts?
How did the garage sale go?
A group of more than 1 woman should NEVER try to price garage sale items. ONE person should do it - and said person should have the ultimate goal of getting rid of the crap (as opposed to making a lot of money) as their goal.
I should write an email.....
I'll try later.
Owen is sick and VERY high maintenance when he's sick.
Must be a Nowack Man thing....
I realize every woman is probably this busy, or busier, but putting it down on "paper" made me realize how crazy it all is.
Sick in the spring is a real bummer; make him some good soup. How are you feeling? Did you, "Lay off the cake, Woman!"?
I have your carseat in a box here--haven't opened it yet but I think I'll sneak a peek later. The Coxes and us are going to try to meet at Six Flags/Atlanta next week after school is out--you all game? I have a little somethin' for the baby too so we need to see you guys and deliver all the items.
Who needs email?
VB tryouts? Don't know yet.
G. Sale? Don't know about it either--I need to call the financial assistant and ask her--right now!
holy hanna....
go to bed. blog later.
but do blog.
and how sick am I that I actually find myself wondering what was at this garage sale of yours...surely with that much stuff..there must have been some great stuff....
really...sick.
Okay, Ness, I will tell you that I found this little statue that hangs on the wall. It's a redheaded girl in pigtails and her eyes are closed. The back says Western Germany, so I figured it could be worth something.
Heard one of my neighbors snagged an original Prada purse for $2 but I cannot verify that; however, one of the "helper" moms did get an original Vera Bradley bag for $2.
I, myself, snagged a pair of size 8 1/2 Cole Haan flip-flop fancy sandles w/a little wedge. Looked like they've never been worn. My neighbors came down at dusk on Friday night when we were still pricing stuff and one of them called their daughter to come over before we covered everything w/tarps. She loaded up on all the Cole Haan shoes. I wasn't able to look until AFTER the G.sale and found the one lone pair right before we loaded them up on the Mission truck--whew! We sold all the shoes for $.50/pr b/c we literally had hundreds of pairs.
The people taking the money said they saw many bargains come through and they got miffed at the people asking for OUTRAGEOUS decreases in price right at the start. I ALWAYS bargain at G. sales but these people were ridiculous.
Anyway, you probably could have made out like a bandit...sorry. I won't tell you anymore b/c I probably have you in tears by now.
Tam-
I checked and we made a little over 2k which was great but a little shy of what we needed to pay for everyone's flight to Orlando. Now, we'll have to dip into some school funds--oh well! Next year should be better b/c they hired a Dev. Director and just started their first Annual Fund here recently.
VB tryouts--just received a letter this weekend and Anna made the team. The school is still small enough that I think almost everyone makes the team--not to say that Anna isn't pretty good. She has to attend two camps this summer so now we're trying to squeeze them into our fast-approaching and slightly-busy summer plans.
Next time, I'll email everyone!
Ta-ta.
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