I'm ashamed to admit, that last night I just lay on the couch in defeat. The next month of my life is filled almost to the minute. I felt overwhelmed. I have two weddings to attend (I'm really excited about both of these :) ), one a few states away, Girls Camp for church (with many projects for that to finish), I will be driving to California with the kids, we are taking the kids to Bear World, I keep getting calls for PTA fundraisers, I am PTA President this year so there is the first meeting (and coming up with the agenda for that, which has me feeling a little nervous), I need to meet with our principal still, the first day of school, ballet registration, middle school registration, and to top it all off, the printer wouldn't work. When Ed came home from work he thought he was alone, because it was so quiet. He helped with the printer and labels for Girls Camp, and I felt better. Check one thing off of my list. It occurred to me late last night...
Tonight was the open house for the new school which my children will be attending. It is a beautiful school. Everything I had hoped for for my children. Pristine. Clean. Unmolested. Until that is, my child got a hold of it. There was a pile of markers sitting on the ground which Donny decided was for "decorating" the outside of the school. I looked appropriately disgusted and stormed my children off. Donny and I dropped off the rest of the family then we headed to Macey's for supplies, which he had to buy. We scrubbed for a good 30 minutes, but made little progress. I took him home, got a new arsenal of scrubbies and went back, alone. After another half an hour of scrubbing and EVERYBODY that passed by had to make some stupid comment to me, I went to find the principal to confess our sins. I feel sufficiently humilated. He asked for me to show him, after which he laughed. Then said they have industrial strength graffiti cleaner that will take it off in two seconds. He sa...
I just wanted to give a shoutout to my husband who has published his first book!! I am so proud of him. Here is a link where you can get one of your own: https://www.amazon.com/MissTaken-Edwin-Philips/dp/1913719677/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KCFMYSL9HOFH&keywords=misstaken&qid=1669818072&sprefix=misstaken%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1
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