TIRED
This Sunday was so hard! I could barely stay awake the whole time. I'm not sure if it was the lack of food and water or what, but it was a tough one. I took a nap in the afternoon, thankfully the kids let me, but I still feel really exhausted. Probably the sugar I've been eating but shouldn't be. 8-27-17
FHE
We decided to go to Becky's house for FHE this week. She had wanted a Priesthood blessing and this seemed like a fun thing to do while we were there. We had to grab some pizzas on our way since we were busy cleaning the church during dinner time. It felt a little like an invasion when we piled ourselves into her living room. She's always so welcoming though. Charity gave our lesson while we ate. It was funny to see the kids all shy and acting differently because we were at Becky's :). Charity's lesson was about baptism and bearing one another's burdens. Pretty cool. We played button button who's got the button- that was fun and then we had Rootbeer Floats for Brad's treat. I hope Becky was okay that we were all there for her blessing. I loved the Spirit that was there. 8-28-17
PTA
Just when I think I'm getting the hang of things and know what I'm doing, I get a call or text from someone telling me that I don't. This job is very humbling. And by humbling I mean, I'm going to have no friends and everyone in the school is going to hate me by the time the year is over. I wish I knew what to do about all my screw ups and my lack of know-how. I knew this was going to be hard and a lot of work, but I had no idea how emotionally draining it would be. I keep telling myself, okay, as soon as this is done I'll be able to relax, but there's always another thing. The shirts mostly I guess, right now, are what's weighing on me. I wish I was having more luck with getting sponsors. I hate the thought of the PTA having to fork out a bunch of money. But I've decided I just need to be patient and have faith. I know Heavenly Father has given me miracles in my favor- I don't think he'll stop now. I'm trying to be patient. All the drama with the two printing companies had me down today. So many dumb decisions to make. I'm not sure what to do with it all. I think my biggest complaint right now is how difficult it is to get in touch with the teachers!!! Who woulda thought. I think my biggest blessing right now is Krista Johnson. She has been such a good friend, offering to help, coming up with solutions and keeping things up beat with her fun ideas. I really don't know what I would do without her right now. She has swooped in SO MANY times and been the answer to so many prayers. I feel so grateful to have her as a friend. I hope she doesn't get sick of me :). 8-29-17
NOAH AND JACK MOVIE
For Birthdays this year, I told the kids to DO something with each other rather than buy something. Most of them have come up with fun ideas and gone on fun dates together, but a lot have forgotten or not even thought about it. Which is okay. It's a lot of dates (7 a month) if they all follow through :). Kelly has done the most. I wish I had been doing better at documenting things right now, but oh well. I am documenting this one :). Noah wanted to take Jack to a movie for his birthday. I wasn't comfortable with just the two of them going alone, so I cashed in on my free "guest pass" card that I got a million years ago when I was stuck out in the hall with Molly- so nice of Cinemark to offer that! I went with them. We went to the Emoji movie. It was pretty cute. Kinda lame, but I loved hearing Jack chuckle at all the funny parts. And I LOVED seeing Noah in the big brother/host role. He was so fun for Jack. Down to letting him hold the popcorn. Fun stuff. It was also a much needed break from my life at the moment. 8-29-17
KRISPY KREME WITH ERIKA AND JACK
For Jack's birthday, Erika wanted to take him to Krispy Kreme. I went with them of course :). And Molly. We had the best time! I think we watched the donuts for at least 20 minutes before our 10 minute decision making at the counter, only to end in getting plain ol' glazed donuts :). So funny. And so yummy too! Who doesn't love Krispy Kreme donuts :). We usually grab our donuts and go, so it was fun to sit there and talk and just enjoy each other's company for a few minutes that day. I was getting pretty anxious for the PTA breakfast in the morning, so it was nice to have a calm in the storm. 8-30-17
DAVIS GIRLS LACROSSE PARENT MEETING
I had to go to the Parent Meeting without Kelly, felt like a dork, but I LOVED that meeting! It got me so excited for her to be part of the Lacrosse team! She's going to love it! I wish I could express how awesome the coaches and girls are- she's going to have a blast! 8-31-17
PTA BREAKFAST
What a whirlwind that breakfast was! Too much stress went into it though, for what it was. I wish I could not let that happen. The actual breakfast went really well. I was glad. All our hard work and preparation paid off. It was fun to have everyone together and getting anxious and planning for the new year. I think it's going to be good. We have a good group of women who I am hoping will get things done so that I don't have to :). We had Kneaders french toast which ended up being awesome! I was relieved about the food when I picked it up and loved that it went so well (minus the strawberries... have to remember that if I ever do that again). But then of course, that evening, I got the message that they'd forgotten to give me the 3 dozen tarts I ordered!!! SUCH A BUMMER!! Really bummed me out, but oh well. That meeting felt really good until it was over. I don't know if I want to remember how it felt after. We did get the chance to work out some pent up feelings the next day, Jami and I, but that didn't feel all that good either. I can't help but regret my decision to do all this PTA stuff with friends. I hope my friendships are strong enough to withstand the PTA. I thought they were, but that Thursday made me wonder. Very humbling. 8-31-17
FREE TRIP
I wasn't in the right mood when we went to this presentation, still rehashing the days events, but it ended up being better than I had expected. Plus, we got a free trip out of it. If we can ever schedule it and find sitters and bla bla bla, then we'll actually go on that trip just Nate and I, together. Should be fantastic :). 8-31-17
JACK'S SPOTLIGHT
So this has happened another time too- where one of the kids did their class spotlight on a sibling's birthday :). So we just went along with it when Jack was assigned Molly's birthday to celebrate HIS birthday in his classroom. Putting together his pictures, on the folder was... well... less than enjoyable. Jack was COMPLETELY disinterested. Looking back, I don't think I really explained to him what it was for and how it will go... I feel bad I didn't help him understand it better, but getting him to care about that thing was like pulling teeth!! He was NOT INTERESTED! Eventually we had put things off so long that I just glued them all on and wrote everything myself. The few minutes before we went to get him. Kind of a bummer, but that's okay! Jack is his own self, that's for sure! I loved going to his class and telling them about Jack. He was SO brave, wore the microphone and talked about his pictures with almost no fear! I think this could be a result of his now fearless testimony bearing, that he was able to get up there and talk without being nervous at all. He seemed to almost enjoy the spotlight :). He got to hand out his Air Head treats and then Mrs. Piper let him pick out some fun little toys from her birthday bucket and put them in his birthday bag. Pretty cool stuff! This always makes my kids feel so special. I love it. 9-1-17
CLEANING THE CHURCH
So I think having us clean the church with the Caldwells that morning was pure inspiration. It was hard to go and hard to be there and really awkward for Jami and I after the week's events, but SO GOOD for us. I think it really helped in the healing process. I REALLY think it was orchestrated like that on purpose and was really grateful for it in the end. Cleaning the church always feels so pointless. Glad we were able to help though, and fun for the family to work together to accomplish something for Heavenly Father. 9-2-17
STATE FAIR ENTRIES/WILD GOOSE CHASE
So my navigation on my phone REALLY made taking the kids' entries to the state fair an adventure. And not that I would have called it that in the process- I actually wanted to kill something, even though I was REALLY trying to be patient and not let the frustration of wrong directions and crazy old ladies get me down. So first we forgot Brad's picture. We went all the way to Centerville for whatever it was (can't remember) and then had to go all the way back home to get his. Then my phone lead us to the wrong place. Luckily it wasn't too far out of the way- I should have known, I just assumed it was a quicker route than I knew. When we got their the crazy old ladies in their stressed out way told us that one of our frames wouldn't work and that we needed wire for the ones that did. We were a half hour away from closing time, so we were a little under the gun. And the crazy ladies made sure to point that out. Which ended up being even more annoying later. Then my phone lead us to the wrong place while looking for a craft store! Luckily I knew where the Walmart was and we were able to go there (I think this was a blessing in disguise because Walmart ended up being cheap enough). We ran frantically through the store, looking for the picture wire and a frame that would work. Got up to the check out counter and the dumb card I had wasn't working for some reason! It was SO ANNOYING AND SO STRESSFUL!! And I'd already had trouble with it earlier in the day, so this was even more annoying. The nice man behind me offered to pay for our stuff, but I just couldn't let him knowing there was money on the account, just the card wasn't working. So I tried the other one and surprisingly that worked. It was SO EMBARRASSING and very frustrating considering the ti me crunch. Then we raced back to the fair grounds (which we missed the entrance and had to turn around...) Then got there and remembered I didn't have the $15 to enter the dang drawings!!! So I had to run over to the administration building and pay that, crossing my fingers that the card would work! Which it did, and that was a relief. Then head back over to the fine arts building and pay and get all the kinks with the frames worked out... it was a MESS!!! Those old ladies take their jobs very seriously to say the least. The really annoying part came when all these last minute-ers came in while we were there (and we'd gotten back in time, but been there at least five or ten minutes past the time since the ladies were taking a while to get everything processed) but they were STILL letting people come and sending them off to get wire and such WAY AFTER the closing time!! So we'd rushed around like crazy people for no reason basically. And that irritated me a little. I know it shouldn't, but it did. But we got the entries turned in and all was well. Such a relief. I was really happy that the kids wanted to participate again and so relieved that we'd made it happen. 9-2-17
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