One of my Rules of Life

When Megs was seven years old, Gma taught her how to make paper hats. She was completely enthralled with making hats and thought that everyone would want one. So she set up shop on the street selling hats. Poor little thing sat out there a loooooong time, and then finally Nice Lady stopped. At first she was surprised at the hats; she was expecting kool-aid. But she bought, and totally made a little girl's day. That's when I came up with one of my Life Rules: Always stop at Lemonade stands. I love capitalism and free enterprise; God bless America. Kids with energy to set up a stand need customers, and I always stop. I usually don't drink the merchandise (you never know what state that kitchen is in) but I buy.

tod mude

...is german for dead tired. don't know if i got the spelling right, and i don't really care. i'm so weary that i really want to curl up in bed. but i can't. i must must must clean my house. it is a mess so messy that i don't even want to be home with the mess. it gets like this once a year: graduation time.

graduation is always stressful and busy. so much to do and to plan. programs, ushers, flags on the stage. its a lot, and i always worry that we will forget something. and then some parent who has waited twelve years for the glorious event of his child's graduation will only see what we forgot to do and be mad because we ruined graduation. i do not joke. these parents are scary.

so this year it is all that and more. because not only am i part of the planning, but i am a parent as well. i can't believe how much more this has affected me. i'm stressed to the max. i'm usually pretty low-key kind of a person. but not this week. in fact, a co-worker laughed at me yesterday and said, "I've never seen you be so assertive." i hastily apologized and wondered why have i become so crazy about this? it is because it is MY child's graduation this time and i want it to be perfect.

today we had a bbq for the students. what a blast. i love love love the bbq day. its so fun to be with the kids and most of them are really appreciative. i am however, dead tired. i shopped for hours yesterday (draging child and her friend along). it takes A LOT of food to feed 250 people. in fact, i was about halfway done at costco last night when i realized that there was no way in the world all this food would fit in my car. i called in the calvary...in the form of sil who has a truck. thank goodness she came to help me out.

anyway, because i have been non-stop busy with school, my house has seriously suffered. there is crap everywhere. and i don't even know where to start. flylady would say to start the timer, but i'm rebelling. but i must get busy. the fam are coming over tonight to watch the jazz game. i'm the only one who gets the fox sports channel. which is great--i love having 'em over. its just that now i have only 1 hour to do 3 weeks worth of cleaning. and instead, i'm blogging. don't that just make all the sense in the world? :)

so, this post is just me complaining. which is okay, because i'm the only one that ever reads this post anyway.

Mother's Day and stuff

Megs painted me a picture for mom's day. So sweet. She also got me a corsage...something that I've only had once on Mother's Day and that's because Dad got me one. My sweet girl. It was a good day. Had a bbq at the parents' with FHE afterward. Overall, a very enjoyable day.

I'm going to the movie with Jones. We didn't quite get our act together soon enough to go to the early movie, so it's the 9:30 show. I'm worried about staying up that late! Now that I am finally able to sleep (insomnia went away) I'm getting very greedy about getting my 7 hours (at least!) So I decided to wash my hair etc. tonight, so I can have less to do in the morning. My hair looks fabulous now, and I've decided to go to the show sans makeup!!!! I never in my life thought I would do something like that, but I am. I think I look great. The wonderful thing about being older is that I am so much more confident! Love it.

The bad thing about being older...I found my first gray hair this week. (sigh) It was, in fact, pure white. I think it is another side effect of menopause/hysterectomy and huge stress. I'm hoping its an only child. But just in case, I got highlights on Saturday. Ironically, just last week my sil asked if I had highlights in my hair. To answer her, I said no, that I hadn't colored my hair in a year and a half because I decided that I wasn't going to color it until I found gray hair. Well....I guess they know now. But the new cut & color is great.

Oh my heck!

I had so much fun shopping with tupins and jones. Wow, that was a blast. I have NEVER spent that much on clothes. But what else could I do with you two cheering me on; I had to buy everything. Now we just need to get tbear in on it too. We have got to plan a girls get-a-way and maybe with mom too?