Simplify - Up Late and Rambling

October 15, 2009

Up Late and Rambling

I've been up late tonight, actually it's early Thursday morning, trying to secretly shop online for Lauren's upcoming 18th birthday. 18 -- Wow, do I feel old! What do you get an 18 year old that doesn't want anything? She's not really into the things most kids her age are. I told her the other day that she was born old. I was finally able to pick her something out, but that's all I'm saying about it. I just hope she likes it.

So, now that I've already stayed up till after one in the morning I'm having a hard time winding down. It's been a crazy week, I'm surprised I'm not sleep-typing. Jeff took the van to the shop for work Monday, so that meant I had to pick him up when he finished (60 miles round trip). The kids were so tired Monday from going to two church picnics on Sunday that I let them be lazy and take the day off from school work. But, because I can't stand to get behind on certain subjects they've been catching back up since then. Morgan has had a horrible swimmer's ear infection this week and after playing phone tag with the doctor's office for half the day Monday, I took her in Tuesday so she could get some ear drops -- which we had to wait and wait on. She's better, but not well yet. Then Wednesday, Troy and Rhonda called from the road. They were about an hour from us and hadn't got a load out, so they thought they'd come stay the night. We stopped school work and rushed to straighten up, vacuum, etc., but before we could even finish they called back to say they got a load and would have to leave. (I hate we didn't get to visit with them though, it's been April since we've seen them.) So, I figured while we were at it we'd go ahead and finish cleaning the house. Then back to work trying to finish school lessons. I feel like we should have just taken the week off from school. Tomorrow (I mean today) I've got to ride in with Jeff at 6:30 AM to get the van back. Since I'll be in town I really need to do my grocery shopping for the next two weeks instead of making an extra trip back. One plus side to that is I can get fresh donuts and coffee from Amazing Glaze while I'm waiting for the auto repair shop to open up. We'll have to miss our Bible study (CBS) -- just not enough time to get the van, get back home, and get to the church. But Friday we get to go to our homeschool co-op and see all our new friends. Then on to dinner and fellowship at one of those new friend's house. So, things are looking up this week. If only I could just learn to go with the flow a little more when those interruptions come up that prevent us from getting every single bit of school work done that I had planned for the week. Because in the middle of all those spelling, grammar, vocabulary, writing, literature, math, history, science, and Latin lessons -- life happens.