I have no idea where this week went but it’s been bar none the longest week of my life. OK I may be conveniently forgetting the weeks around the birth of my two kids but it’s been pretty darn long!
Besides working to restore computer files and software programs on a laptop that was only meant to be a convenient email muse while my kids laughingly play together (haha) I’ve been filling out piles of paperwork in duplicate and triplicate for two schools, rushing to get the kindergartener to school then rushing to get the three year old to montisorri then rushing to pick up the three year old, prep dinner, rushing to pick up the kindergartener and get them to after school functions of soccer, legos and swimming.
I’m trying to spend quality time with them in the hours after school since they are gone where before I was content to neglect them encourage their independence while I was in the kitchen.
Now my evenings consist of cleaning the kitchen, preserving food, getting them read to and in bed, again cleaning the kitchen, filling orders for my online reflux and colic store, loading the dehydrator one last time before bed, preparing lunches for the next day or getting things out for breakfasts (as in the grain grinder, salt and baking powder, not as in breakfast cereal.) There was even one complete night in there given up to meeting other parents and teachers.
Getting kids into school is more stressful then trying to keep them entertained while gardening or cooking! I’m sure we’ll fall into a routine shortly but for now I’m feeling very overwhelmed, still not fully functioning on the computer and not yet done with the harvest. Doesn’t the school district know that early September is not the end of the harvest???
I’m hoping at some point to finally restore all the files off the desktop so that I (meaning my husband) can clean it out and start over with it since this little toy laptop just isn’t going to cut running the beefy software I use for editing photos or working on the graphics or html for my website. I have to photoshop Santa into my living room somehow, don’t I?
While I’m ranting about non-food items I wanted to share some of the insipirational blogs I’ve seen lately:
I wish I could be so cool as to post my total harvest and food saving efforts but alas I have no scale. I tend to obsess over things and decided at one point to throw it out. I’m so happy I did! It opened my eyes to how my clothes fit me and how my body feels and less about the daily numbers.
And now I need to get to bed so I can get up early to make morning glory muffins while the morning is still glorious, somewhere before the farmer’s market starts and swim lessons begin…
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1 kitsapFG // Sep 19, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Gosh… you made me blush!
I totally hate that first week back to school. The amount of paperwork alone is just way overwhelming. This year is different for me though as my daughter is in “Running Start” and that this is her second year in the program (she’s a senior this year) and she is not taking any classes at the high school – just the college classes so she starts back to school three weeks later, and she takes care of all the paperwork! I pay for it though (literally) because for this freedom I must incurr all the costs for her books etc. It’s so worth it though! LOL!
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