Chaos
Do you ever have those weeks when it just seems like everything is in complete chaos? Yeah, I’m having one of those weeks. (What am I saying? I have 4 kids… I pretty much live in chaos… But for some reason this week just seems exceptionally chaotic.) It’s not like anything has gone majorly wrong or anything like that…(well sort-of – keep reading) I just feel like nothing is organized and I’m behind on everything. I don’t know if I can even put it into words. I’ll try to give a bit of a run-down.
I think it is a lot because our week didn’t start off normal. Monday – no school – it was a school holiday so when Ryan & Dane don’t have school, we don’t homeschool. It was a nice lazy day at home. It was great! BUT… it put me behind in the homeschooling aspect (that is planned out for 5 day weeks) and we never really caught up this week. Tuesday was a wash too because we had Dr. Appt.’s in the morning that ran late. So, we have done a little bit each day, but not according to “plan” which admittedly probably shouldn’t but DOES drive me bonkers! So here on Thursday, I officially decided to just let it go, do the bare minimum (math & reading) the next couple days and start week 7 over again next week. Do-over!
Also on Monday evening I started dinner just a wee bit late. The boys had cub-scouts & I had a Bible study to get to. But I still had time to finish my pizza pasta bake with a few moments to spare to scarf it down. The water was boiling, the meat was browning and I sent Ryan downstairs to grab some garlic bread. He comes back up and says “hey, did you know everything in the freezer is defrosted?” “WHAT!?!” Off goes the water, off goes the ground beef and down Matt and I go to investigate the disaster. (Meanwhile Dane “watches” Annika for us. Translation – Annika emptied pretty much every cupboard, basket etc. she could get her hands on UPSTAIRS while we worked on the mess DOWNSTAIRS.) So gist of it was, the top half of the freezer was a goner. Someone had accidentally left the door open a crack. We threw away probably $300-$400 worth of food. The bottom half was still frozen… BUT we had to find someplace to put it all as the freezer needed defrosted because everything was covered with ice (from the freezer constantly running with the door partially open) & disgusting dripping meat blood from the top half of the freezer. We have two other freezers (connected to fridges) so we re-arranged and packed them full & then thankfully we live next door to the church with two freezers, so we stocked those full as well. Then we left the freezer to defrost & went off to our cub-scouts & Bible Study (after the kids scarfed down hot-dogs and Matt & I called dinner a wash.) Fast forward to Tuesday morning…. the freezer is now defrosted but the SMELL…. oh my enough to knock you over – BLECH! Of course the freezer defrosted all over my area rugs that we didn’t think to pick up amongst the chaos. So that left us all kinds of fun projects!
Also, on Tuesday Annika had her 1 year check-up and I had an annual check-up – both with our new Dr. Our old Dr. moved away last month. We are so very sad, but this new Dr. seems great, so that is a good thing! It is always sad to lose a good Dr. though, but seems to be how it goes with good Dr.’s & small towns – they never do stay too long. Our new Dr. is newly out of medical school (and seems really good), so we’ll see how long she sticks around!
Wednesday (was that only yesterday?) Was my sweet baby girl’s 1st Birthday! We spent the day adoring her, taking tons of pictures & videos, going out to eat, and adoring her some more.
So aside from all that, I just feel chaotic. Maybe it’s the weather… Maybe it is the lack of organization in the house… Maybe it is the fact that I am a mom with 4 kids, a pastor’s wife & own a business… (Did I mention Christian is still wearing shorts when it is 38 degrees outside because I haven’t taken the time to get his fall clothes out yet? I know… kind of sad…) My little tornado can destroy the house so much faster than I can pick it up, the laundry needs folded but little miss tornado likes to “help” with that too, so it can only get done when she is sleeping (when I have other things more pertinent to get done also that must be done while she is sleeping).
Then for some reason I have money on my mind this week. Christmas, College, Retirement, Debt. Do I need to think about going back to a job outside of the home at some point to help with retirement funds for us & college funds for the kids? (self-employment has some downfalls in this area – another post for another time.) If so, should I go back to college first, or just try to find a regular job. (My degree is in Christian Education but the jobs for that – especially in this area are pretty much null – and I’m not sure I really want to do that anymore anyway…) Or will my business be able to support us?
Okay, well, it is 1p.m. the kids haven’t been fed lunch, we haven’t done any homeschool yet & I have 341 emails in my business inbox. Yup, see… CHAOS. Please tell me you can relate!
C-
