It is the kick off to Memorial Day Weekend...
Back in the day I would have been sleeping at this time of the morning, packed up and ready to head to the river, planning a weekend full of just fun,simple non-stop sun, makin' sure I had a new bottle of "sun in" for my hair and LOTS of Hawaiian tropic for my long arms...and just being plain ol' happy to welcome in summer.
Now I wake up at 3:15 am thinking
- "my running clothes" are in the washer and won''t be dry in time for 8am (I don't dry my running stuff)
- The school carnival is two weeks from today and I still need to find more volunteers, email the BMX team about posters, find out a list of the games...
- Don't forget to put sunscreen on the back of my neck while we sell dinner tickets after school for Open House because my neck burned on Tuesday...
- The kids are sleeping on the pull out bed in the living room and John has to get up at 4am and won't know and might trip as he shuffles through the house making his way to the coffee (because we live in a small house and the house of couch takes up the entire room therefore pulling a bed out of the house of couch is RIDICULOUS ) so I should get up and turn on the lights so he can see but the kids are sleeping and it is enough that I am up at 3:15, I surely do not need the entire house up.
- I betcha the dog pee'd in the bathroom...(yes...I was right, now IF only we could get him to use the toilet)
- I should really just get my hair cut back to the way it usually is
- I hope my pen order comes in because if not, maybe I should just go back to the "other" pens, which I bought a few new ones because I needed some new colors...at full price at Aaron Brothers without even a coupon and NOW, via email, at 3:15 it appears that there is one in my in box!
Now that I am up, wide awake and drinking coffee in my nice quiet house of couch, I would not trade a thing, well, okay..maybe I would have done things a little differently, but it would have not lead to right here, right now...and I like right here..right now because I am
- able to run/walk for someone who needs me (& you) to fight like a girl..for the girl {s}
- able to plan a school carnival that the kids LOVE to come to regardless of the blood, sweat and tears that goes into planning it.
- grateful for great friends that will sit next to me in the sun to help sell tickets.
- the mom of two healthy kids that think it is super fun to pull a mattress out of a couch and sleep on it on a school night..and hopefully a husband who will be unconsciously happy that he has a wife that was worried that he would trip over it, which would NOT HAVE BEEN A GOOD WAY to start a long weekend..(I am going to go ahead a say "good thing for me")
- um..I will get back to the dog....ughhh.
- thinking a bad hair day it better than not having hair...I just need to get a new hat. My Bon Jovi hat is on it's last leg...
- blessed with the ability to doodle...regardless of the pen...but maybe think about switching to an economy pleaser like crayons...YEAH!!!
Happy Memorial Day Weekend....
p.s..hold your comments on the photo..especially you RANDY..cause I know you have got to have some mullet picture hiding somewhere...but honestly...WHAT WAS I THINKING??????????????? sorry mom & dad!