I Could Write a Book

Today makes my 100th post. 100 days in a row. I  haven’t missed one. I am so proud of myself. This has become my journal of sorts. The only difference is this is not private and anyone can read how my days, weeks, months have been.  I’m going to miss my first day of posting on this Saturday. Dang it. I almost wish I had gotten a Treo or Blackberry with the media package now. I’ll live and I’m sure my blog will, too.

I’m just getting home from a Jr League meeting. One of the council meetings. I received a very nice compliment there. It is so nice to hear how other people view you and your work ethics, at least when it is positive. I’ve got a lot of work to do this year in my position in Jr League. I’m looking forward to it. I’m not dreading the board retreat nearly as much as I was before attending this meeting. I love making new friends and I’ve got a girl riding with me now and we both have 3 children pretty much the exact same ages.

For some reason, right now my life really feels like everything is falling into place.  For the moment I’m at peace with the school that my children are in. I’m still very heavily considering homeschooling them. I absolutley love being with my children. We are having a great (busy) summer so far. They are happy and learning so much. I’ve got them involved tons in the day-to-day stuff with the house. I taught T how to vaccum today. All 3 have their own chores to do. It is very nice to feel like a "little family". And as a side note, I finally folded and put away all of this weeks’ laundry. woohoo.

Well, I’m off to start working on a presentation that is due on Friday. Joy. Sweet dreams. 

I’m tired of the stress I have during the week because I’m worried about the laundry, the unmopped floors, the bathrooms that need scrubbing, etc. so I am going to do my absolute best to do the majority of that during the weekend. I want to have a week where I do not feel guilty for the days I don’t do anything other than workout. Somebody needs to remind me of this tomorrow when I don’t feel like doing anything.

Now, I know the above paragraph sounds good, but do you have any idea what my weekends are actually like ? LOL. This weekend we have one t-ball game, one baseball game, one hour of baseball photos, one hour long swim lesson, one Mass, one Cub Scout meeting and one birthday party. Add to the baseball games 45 minutes travel time each way, 30 minutes to the swim lesson, 20 to the birthday party each way, and on and on and on. Don’t forget how long it takes me to get myself and 3 kids dressed and ready to go to Mass on Sundays. No wonder I am so tired all the time. lol. I’m sorta busy. However, I am going to get things done this weekend. I am ! I’m actually doing laundry at the moment. That stuff is worse than bunnies when it comes to multiplying and Santa still hasn’t sent me a maid yet.

Tonight we had a family night. Tob has been begging to go eat sushi this week (that’s my boy) so we did. It is cute that the children actually have their favorite sushi restaurant. As Tob says, "the food is good there". cute. After dinner we went to see Shrek 3. Cute, cute movie. Not exactly what I was expecting, I honestly have no idea what I was expecting, but the kids had a blast. I can’t believe how much popcorn my children can eat. Amazes me.

I hope you all have a productive weekend. Enjoy some of it, too.

Adios amigo.  

Dear (adult) Santa,

    For Christmas (April 22, 2007) I want a maid who comes every week. I want a clothes folder so that I don’t have to fold this mountain of clothes. I want my own personal chef. I would really like it if he could come around 6am every morning. I know that may be hard for the elves to make, so if you can just get one to come from lunchtime on, that would be great. Oh, one requirement there, Santa, he must know how to make sushi.

    Maybe I should just make a list, Santa. I thought of some more things that I just really, really want this year. I’d like to have a driver for the kids. One who can pick them up whenever I can’t and if he can drive them to baseball practice, that would be swell.

    Oh, oh, oh, I just thought, maybe I could have a combo chef / personal trainer like Oprah. Santa, do the elves make those ? I really need one of those. Turning 40 this year has wrecked havoc on my body. My ankle injury may have had something to do with that. Speaking of that, Dear Santa, may I have my own MRI machine ? Could you throw in a Physical Therapist, too ? I really liked having one of those.

    And Santa, we all know that diamonds are a girl’s best friend. What about a tennis bracelet ? What about a tennis pro ? lol. If you don’t have any of those, I really, really need  (okay, want) a new racquet and some new workout clothes.

    Dear Santa, I’m an adult. I hope you don’t think I’ve asked for too much. I’ve seen kids around here get more than what I asked for on my list. I know I’m a bit early this year. I was thinking if you had any leftovers from this past Christmas that maybe you wouldn’t mind doing a special run with Rudolph one night.

Thanks a bunch, Santa. I promise (crosses fingers) that I’ve been a good girl.

xoxoxoxo 

    Today is Sunday and it is the last free day of our Spring Break. We didn’t go anywhere this holiday, but I think the kids enjoyed just being at home and doing things around here. I know I did.  Part of me is sad that our free time is almost over and then I think "tomorrow is Monday, with no kids". Woohoo.

    I must say that I’m looking forward to a new week. A new week of tennis (and there is going to be lots of tennis this week) and a new week of working out. I really don’t know why I’m on the bandwagon that I’m on right now, but I’m so happy that I am. I feel so much better. I ate another healthy breakfast this morning. Oatmeal with hot blueberries. Felt like winter time.

    If it wasn’t so dang windy I might actually go walk around the block outside. Oh, well. It can wait till tomorrow at the club. Speaking of walking outside, tomorrow is the Boston Marathon and the weather for it looks absolutely horrible. Eeeek. Keep all of those who are participating in it in your thoughts. That weather is going to be very difficult to handle on top of the 26 miles.

    Make the most of the rest of your Sunday. For me that means I’ll be finishing up the laundry and writing out checks for tomorrow. Oh what fun. See you again on my Marvelous Monday. 

   I love Mondays ! Isn’t that a trip ? I’m so opposite of the average person, in many ways. You ask, "why does she love Mondays ? " Well, let me tell you why.

     I love Mondays because that means my house is going to be quiet again. It means that once I’m home from the normal Monday stuff that I can clean in peace and quiet. It seems that I "catch up" a lot on Mondays. Remember that laundry issue ? Well, that’s one of the reasons I love Monday so much. I get to get it all done. It seems that I cook more on Mondays, too. Maybe that’s because I’m tired of eating out on the weekends. Who knows ? We could analyze that to death, for sure.

    Also, Mondays stand for "me time". Woohoo ! If moma "ain’t" happy, "ain’t" nobody happy and I don’t know of a family where that applies more. Lol. On Mondays, I get to do tennis. My all time favorite passion in life. Yes, I love tennis that much. I’ve got this saying "tennis is my prozac, sushi is my crack".  (We’ll hit the sushi addiction in a later post). I’ve been without my dear tennis for about 3 months, now. It feels so good to be back at it. Even when I fall flat on my butt. Lol. Yeap, that happened today. I’ve been out with an ankle injury and when I felt my ankle "going" today I just let it go and fell on my right side and butt. I think I took about 10 years off of my tennis partner’s life. I was fine, other than my pride that is.

    Also, Mondays nights are just for me and my children. My husband has a class that he goes to every Monday night and it is fun just to have that special one-on-one time with them. It seems much less chaotic when it is just us at home. Ever noticed that ? That when the "daddy" is home things are just a tad more wild and tons more noisy.

    I would say that the main reason I love Mondays is because it is a fresh start to the week and I think "maybe this week will be the week that I keep it all together". (snort). When that happens I’ll be sure and post about it.

~~Happy Monday, everyone~~