So, okay, today was one of those "phrenetic" days (The girls learned that word from Andrew Pudewa of IEW fame and now use it consistently when ever we have a hectic, crazy day). Today we had dentist and eye appointments for all three girls. We were gone all day yesterday and were home late so I failed to have Isabella lay out her glasses the night before. I should have learned by now not to schedule eye appointments in the morning. It seems like we are always looking for somebody’s glasses! I know, I know, the super organized moms out there are saying "Well, if you would only have them put their glasses in the same place every night before they go to bed, oh I don’t know, maybe the GLASSES CASE on the night stand, bookshelf, etc." Yeah, yeah, I know. We do that about half of the time — when I remember to remind them (and I know, I shouldn’t have to remind them).

You see, I’m not a super organized mom. I’m an ADD mom. All though I’ve never been formally diagnosed, other members of my immediate family have, and so I think I probably have it too to some degree. I have many of the symptoms: I struggle with time management, having a good awareness of time, am forgetful, somewhat disorganized, don’t pay attention to details, etc. Oh I have good intentions in all these areas and, over the years, I have developed systems of organizations that work well to help me compensate and keep me on task (Lists, calendars, organizers, planners, sticky notes, charts, etc). These only go so far though, and I still have to remember to look at them. But I digress . . .

Back to our morning. So after looking for an hour for Isabella’s glasses, we concluded that she probably left them at my mom’s. "Oh well, there is nothing we can do about it now, if we don’t leave now (9:35) we’ll be late for the dental appointment at 9:45." We were planning on going to the appointment, then going to lunch with a friend and then from there go to our eye appointment. As we were driving in the car, and after apologizing for my ungodly behaviour in losing my temper at the girls that morning while we were searching for the glasses, I said to Grace: "I sure hope that it is the dental appointment and not the eye appointment that we have this morning." "Uh - oh, that wouldn’t be good," she replied.

Well, we arrived at the dentist’s office at 9:43. I was pretty proud of myself that we were 2 minutes early. As we were signing in, however, the receptionist said "Hmmm, I don’t see your daughter’s names here." I shot a look at Grace and she was smirking! "Try 2:00" I said rather sheepishly. "Oh, there you are!" She said. Go figure. I called my eye doctor and explained what had happened. Luckily he’s only 5 minutes away, so we were not too late. As we got in to the car and began to pull away, Grace looked at me, chuckled, shook her head and said "I love my ADD mom". I never had that title before, but it was sort of endearing (kinda like when someone says something negative about somebody and then adds "bless their heart" ) and today it certainly fit.

After the appointment, Brian and I went to have lunch with a friend. Since we are members of  HSLDA  and we abide by their policy that we won’t leave the girls alone during school hours, we ended up taking them with us. We were going to bring lunch to our friend's place of business, so we stopped by a sandwich shop on the way to pick up some food. When we got to his work, we discovered that the shop had forgotten my soup. "Rats, I forgot to check the order. Well its too late now, we’ll go back and get it after lunch." We had a nice lunch and did actually remember to get the soup on the way to the dentist’s office.

So we got to the dentists office (AGAIN) and sat down for a breather, finally a moment of quiet, and the girls began to work on their school work. As they were working, we started to hear a really vulgar song with lots of graphic details play on the radio. All three girls looked at me shocked with their mouths agape (you know, those sheltered homeschoolers). What!? In the dentist’s office? Anyway, the rest of the appointment went pretty well.

When we got home we decided to call a friend and RSVP for her son’s (also a friend of ours) surprise birthday party that night. We had just got the invitation the day before and hadn’t seen it earlier because we were out of town. Well, all day I kept thinking "I think we can go, but it seems like there was something we were suppose to do tonight." I checked my trusty calendar. "No, nothing tonight." It kept nagging me, though, and I thought I would eventually think of what that thing was. However, since the party was tonight I really thought we should go ahead and RSVP. Well, about an hour later, Brian remembered what it was: The rodeo.

We have a rodeo every night of the week during the summer in our town. We had promised Grace (a HUGE rodeo fan) that we would go to the local rodeo before the summer was up, and a few days ago we realized that if we didn’t go soon we would lose the chance until next year. My mother in law was in town during the weekend and is less than enthusiastic about the rodeo, so the only night that was going to work was tonight. So, we called our friend back,  thanked her for the invite, gave our regrets and Happy Birthdays to pass on to her son and headed out to the rodeo. Luckily there were no ADD moments there. We had a great time! One of the things I love most about it is that they pray for protection for the participants in Jesus’ name. That’s so awesome! It was a perfect end to my "phrenetic" day.

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.  

II Corinthians 12:9