It's Only Been Five Years

Five years.  SO much has happened.  We moved states.  The oldest two are at college.  Sue and the S-Train are the only ones home.  I'm working full time. (and not just subbing.)  I finished that Masters' Degree.  We've had meltdowns and accomplishments and fiercely beautiful moments.

Some things have not changed.  I am still often absent minded and over scheduled.  I often feel overwhelmed and under qualified for the things I take on.  But at least - sometimes- I'm funny while I go through this crazy life. (At least I think so - others may disagree.  Which is why my friend MC has to be my friend for life.  She thinks I'm hilarious.  This is a high qualification for friendship!)

But because there is so much.  I cannot even sum up.  Or maybe I will in a future post - summarize a year at a time.

Instead - here is the week.  I am working currently as the school librarian.

This week I - Well, I started to list all the things I did in the school library.  That is most of my life now!!  Suffice it to say that it was a very long week all over the school.  I asked one teacher on Thursday or Friday about something that had happened earlier in the week.  She said, "Monday or Tuesday?  That was a hundred years ago."  That's what the week felt like.  Yep it did.  But then I put up a bulletin board on Friday.  I was up and down a ladder.  And we went to the ward Fall Festival.  That night my body was clearly telling me I had overdone it.  Grrrr.  I had surgery in AUGUST.  I'm so ready to be done being careful!  And then today in nursery I twisted as I pushed a child in a chair.  I pulled a muscle in my back.  And now I am a grump.  A hunched over grump.  Every week I think I'm ready to ramp up my activity and that my recovery has moved to the recovered level.  But the weekend comes and - nope.  Bummer.

But despite my body, I managed to clean out the closet in the big girls' room.  I really didn't clean out too much, just consolidated and organized.  So. much. better.  Now I need to clean off the dressers and out from under the beds and take picture of clothes that might need to be given away to get verdicts.  And then get rid of the extra clothes! Organizing makes me happy now.  I think it always did.  But now I've learned that I am essentially able to focus on only one thing at a time.  For years that has been raising children and creativity.  There wasn't much left over.  (And the organization wasn't going to stay done for heaven's sake.)  Now with a little extra time, I can do SOME organizing.  And it might even stay organized for awhile!!

Lou had JV league and Regionals in the past two weeks.  The S-Train finished up one team's soccer season and had his last practice for the other team.  We had the fall festival.  Each of the children went to at least one big birthday party.