Recharging!

Today is Thursday. It's Thursday and my batteries are completely run down. I felt this way by Tuesday, but it was not even close to the end of the week and just kept pushing.

I had a super sick Grandson sent to the emergency room on Monday, along with juggling an appointment for my teenager, and driving my eldest son around on a paper gathering mission. I pushed off a meeting with my ParaBoss to top it off. That was Monday.

Tuesday, I was able to slow it down a little. That pushed off meeting with the ParaBoss, cleaning, and cleaning then some more cleaning. We had some missionaries over for dinner, so I whipped up 2 veggie dishes. Thank goodness George did the steak and mashed potatoes, I was freaking out over the orange carrots.

Wednesday I had planned on doing some nice quiet research in the library and maybe even sleep in a little: wrong. I woke up to my oldest son's phone alarm and grand-kids running around the house. After repeated attempts to wake him, I resigned myself to just taking care of the little boogers. I love them dearly but they get into mischief at lightening speed and spankings tend to ensue, making me feel like a very bad grandmother. So with my plans of a quiet afternoon researching dashed on the rocks of despair, I had hoped that I could find a small bit rest. My daughter came over with the other two grand-kids  It was not a bad night, I do love the little creepy crawly grandson, he has blue eyes and I am a sucker for blue eyes. I did get to watch my Ghost Hunters and kick back a bit. My daughter made dinner and I got to even visit with my youngest daughter! Maybe not such a bad thing, but chasing the infant around makes one tired.

Today is Thursday. I started the day deciding that I was not going to do as much as the last 3 days, I bolted out of the house after making sure my son was awake to take care of those wonderfully energetic grand-kids. I dragged my husband to the library. I had set a time limit of 2pm for the information I was looking for. I didn't find what I wanted, bummer but I got to go hang out at Loussac, I just love the Alaska Section! Thinking it would be nice slow day, my son's request for a ride to get more paper work done was important but draining again. I had the kids in the car with me while he spent an hour getting medical records and then I spent two toddler bathroom trips while he got his billing information taken care of. Thank goodness they took a nap, but driving 3 circles around downtown, oy.

I know, these lists look small, a little boring and sorta "so what", what I am not telling in the highlighting is the dishes, breakfast and lunch for toddlers, regular cleaning, hounding my kids about homework and shoveling and doing other chores, helping the husband with odd tasks, making sure we have dinner and other groceries on hand, paying attention to my kids, fun time with the toddlers and some time I have been making an effort of making for researching at home. Every day. I am not whining, just fluffing out the rest of the day for ya.

I caught a break tonight. My husband started up the grilled cheese dinner and I got to sit and eat. Until the toddlers started to fight. I blew up instead of running back to stop WWIII and ate my sandwich. Then locked myself in my room. I gave myself a girl night. I have not spent more than 20 minutes outside of this room for the last 6 hours. I did everything from eyebrow shaping to, putting on make-up for a new Facebook picture. It was great! I even got a couple cups of hot tea delivered. And wonderfully, two loads of dishes finished up.

Maybe tomorrow I can click my heels together and take a mini vacation to Oz ;)