Stomping on the Breaks

Apparently glorious, beautiful, relaxing holiday weekends have a tendency to make my mind cease to function. And, yes, I'm talking about LAST weekend. John took the Friday before Labor Day off, so we all got to have a four day weekend. Kathryn was in town with Ollie and my entire week leading up to that had consisted of play dates and activities that required no responsibilities on my part.

Now, this week? This week felt like I was stepping on the breaks, but never actually managed to come to a complete halt.

What do you mean, there are no groceries? And I have to go work out with the twenty new people who signed up for my class? And Audrey is going to meet her preschool teacher? And I have meetings to attend and work days to put time into? It's still summer! Stop, stop, stop, stop!!

Whew!

On top of that, John has been feeling sick most of the week, so I've devoted a lot of my time trying to make sure the girls and I are fending off germs. Orange juice, honey, vitamins, echinacea, lemon ginger tea, more orange juice. And can I just say: It's still summer!! This is not the time for colds! Somebody get that memo out.

Anyway, this week was not the end of it. I've got our first MOPS group meeting of the year tomorrow morning and it is also Audrey's first day of preschool...and I have bunco that night as well. There are a slew of activities going on just about every day until the end of the month (which really feels like it should be much farther away) when I abandon my husband and children to go frolic in Scotland.

Now, reading this, I can understand how someone would think I'm incredibly overwhelmed and stressed out. And here's the part that's creeping me out a bit: I'm not stressed. I'm not worried about any of it. I'm having fun. (aside from the sicky stuff. That's never fun.)

I may not always be on my A-Game. The girls are still going to wear down my patience and I'm occasionally going to run out of the house like a chicken with my head cut off, but the difference is that in all these things, I'm giving it over to the Lord. There is no reason to lose sleep over things I have limited control over.

That is the ever-loving story of my life right now.

Now on to my next week of craziness! I'll at least attempt to take a break to post some pictures of A on her first day of school!

...maybe then I'll actually concede that Fall is coming.