The New Year was approaching. I was looking forward to it with plans. Lots of plans. It seemed as if my life would slow down a little and I could actually make plans.
Let me back track. We moved in June of 2012. For three months the kids and I stayed with my parents while our house was being built. J...was/is working in California (another story for another time) We moved into our house in September 2012...D and A both started high school so I felt like I hit the ground running. There was no time to "settle it" to get things organized. And if you have kids in high school you know that they are busy. So I spent the school year attending high school events, keeping track of kids, carpooling them and I was also trying to homeschool E who was in the 3rd grade and N who was in preschool but pretty uncooprative.
Summer was full of swim lessons, my mom and dad's 50th wedding anniversary and D getting her mission call to Argentina. Then school started again and I put the two little ones (sadly..again another story) into two different schools. So now I had 3 kids in 3 different schools and a daughter getting ready for a mission. Life was crazy. Between driving and picking up kids several times a day, N is in afternoon Kindergarten. We were looking for and buying a year and a half worth of supplies for D. Every time J got to visit it was for an event...taking D to the temple, Thanksgiving, Christmas etc. We'd be busy the whole time he was here doing activities.
So D entered the MTC Dec. 4. I was getting ready for Christmas and looking forward to the new year when I'd only have 3 kids at home. They'd be in school most of the day and I could "get some stuff done" Get caught up as it were. Organize files. Really get my bedroom set up (it just the junk dropping spot now) And maybe even get the kids organized into some kind of chore schedule and morning/evening routines.
Well here it is nearing the end of January. And what have I done... So I haven't done any of it. K, my daughter who was pregnant with triplets, and her husband moved in. They don't really make my life any busier. But for some reason it feels like it. Now the babies are here it's going to get a little more chaotic.
Then I had the two littles with coughs and colds and then A with the flu. Then E. got a different flu and I had a sinus/lung sort of reaction to the flu shot and I feel like yucky.
It took me 3 weeks to get the main part of the house (we have one great room with living room and kitchen and hallways) all the way cleaned from after Christmas. No, it wasn't never cleaned...just not clean all at once. I'd clean a part of it and then do and errand or fetch a kid from school, and then the next day I'd try again. It took 3 weeks and finally I had everything clean, vacuumed, mopped etc and that's when N decided to eat so much salt that he barfed all over everything...yup, the living room carpet, the tile in the living room, my bed (dry clean only bedspread) my bedroom floor (which still smells despite all of my carpet scrubbing and Fabreeze efforts. )
I love my kids to the moon and back but if you have kids...unless you are a lot meaner than I am...make plans and set goals, have dream and work toward them, but know that kids will interrupt and take priority and your plans by need to be modified.
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