Life Happens

It's been a while. What can I say, life happens. Lots of life has been happening.

In the last few weeks we've been extremely busy around here. I've had only two free mornings in the past few weeks and that's the only time I have to get anything done. Over the past few weeks we've restarted CCD and Bible Study, and book club which has meant countless hours of reading. Happy had a double ear infection which was one doctors appointment, and he has another one tomorrow. (unrelated) Demand has had a steady flow of play dates. It's ridiculous, it's getting to the point where she's double booking now.

I can't remember the last time I bought groceries and what's worse I can't remember the last time I cleaned out our refrigerator. Today I yelled at Demand to get out of our bedroom because all the piles of laundry made it dangerous to navigate. (She did end up hurting herself) Mr. Sloth is sick now and the kids seem to be on the threshold of "something" as well. Just keeping our dishes clean has been a battle (and we often lose) Tonight was the first time in a few weeks I've had the upstairs cleaned enough to vacuum. Yikes! ...let's move on to another subject.

And the bombshell amidst all of this surprisingly unexpected chaos is that we found out my mom has cancer. Maybe all my spinning plates have helped me deal with the blow. Not that I'm trying to stay busy, it's just happening. I was just thinking how I didn't have anything to do tomorrow and then I remembered that Happy has a meeting with a neurologist tomorrow to double check his "birth abnormality". We spent most of today at an apple orchid (cold and wicked windy, by the way), tomorrow we have the appointment/groceries/library, Wednesday we have CCD, Thursday Bible Study, and Friday a playdate and maybe a Rosary procession in the evening. PLUS, Thurs/Fri/Sat Mr. Sloth has a Republican Convention so he'll be MIA. By the end of the week we'll be two weeks away from our big Europe trip.

Man, life is happening, and it's happening fast.

The sick Mr. Sloth has requested I get off his "bed" (the couch since he is sick) so I will wrap this up. If you hear from me again this week, our life has slowed down just a bit.