Out of control busy....
May. 16th, 2008 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mommydamaMy daughters can and do unload the dishwasher all by themselves. This is bliss. Every chore I see them capable of doing causes me untold happiness. Does this make me a horribly selfish person to be so happy that my load may be significantly lightened in the near future? Perhaps. Child labor is a beautiful thing.
Heh.
Tonight is the girls dance recital. My MIL is coming over to help me get them ready. I have hair and makeup to do on all three of them, as well as making sure their costumes are together and in good condition. It is a tad overwhelming actually. My fear is the minute I finish one girl she will destroy herself while I work on the next one. Hence the reason for Grandma's being here to help. Why do I care so much what they look like for this? I actually think it has a lot to do with the fact that Brad is not here and I want them to look stellar on the video for him. But...truth be told...he will be more tickled by the videos of the wild bedhead Luci singing Hannah Montana songs in her nightgown first thing in the morning, and the rockstar hairdoed Maria in one of her fashion challenged outfits posing for the camera, and the blushing Zoe showing off her new tank top with flowers and skulls and talking about the earthworm farm she is cultivating. I need to just relax about the dumb recital. They are on stage for all of 90 seconds a piece. But DANG they are cute all dressed up like living dolls.
This is going to be a very, very busy weekend. Tonight the recital, tomorrow morning Maria has a soccer game, then my niece Bennett has her recital tomorrow afternoon, then I have to take the girls to the pool to do a little practicing (Maria and Zoe are going to take part in a swim meet of sorts on Tuesday evening), Sunday we may go to church if I can make it happen, then my cousin's high school graduation is in the afternoon, while Luci will be at a soccer game with the ILs, and then later in the early evening, Maria has another (and the LAST) soccer game. By the time this weekend is over I will need a vacation. All those bags to be packed with changes of clothing and water bottles and soccer balls and dance shoes and soccer shoes and snacks and jackets in case it gets cool and books/coloring books for the bored sisters and cameras and video cameras and and and...craziness. It gets exhausting. I will be very, very grateful for next week when it all ends for a little while. Beginning of June we'll start it all up again with Camp Center Stage and Artichokes (Art class) and Maria and Zoe might join the swim team which will mean practices twice a week and swim meets on the weekends. Ugh. I don't know how to stop this avalanche now....I didn't mean to get us this busy, honestly.
I must go pick up my bedroom now. It gets dreadfully neglected. And it is a mess. The girls like to use all the open space in there to make forts. *sigh* I make them clean it up most of the time, but somehow they still leave a trail of devastation in their wake. And I need to organize myself for the hair and makeup stuff too. I want to have it all laid out and ready to go before my MIL gets here. I'll have to feed them dinner at some point too, so that has to be planned and organized. AND I have to vacuum the hallway and stairs too. There are entirely too many stairs in this house. A trilevel seems like a cool idea, but the stairs are a killer for vacuumming. I need a new vacuum by the way...any suggestions for a great one for stairs?
I'm off....I'll post pics off my dollies tomorrow!!
Heh.
Tonight is the girls dance recital. My MIL is coming over to help me get them ready. I have hair and makeup to do on all three of them, as well as making sure their costumes are together and in good condition. It is a tad overwhelming actually. My fear is the minute I finish one girl she will destroy herself while I work on the next one. Hence the reason for Grandma's being here to help. Why do I care so much what they look like for this? I actually think it has a lot to do with the fact that Brad is not here and I want them to look stellar on the video for him. But...truth be told...he will be more tickled by the videos of the wild bedhead Luci singing Hannah Montana songs in her nightgown first thing in the morning, and the rockstar hairdoed Maria in one of her fashion challenged outfits posing for the camera, and the blushing Zoe showing off her new tank top with flowers and skulls and talking about the earthworm farm she is cultivating. I need to just relax about the dumb recital. They are on stage for all of 90 seconds a piece. But DANG they are cute all dressed up like living dolls.
This is going to be a very, very busy weekend. Tonight the recital, tomorrow morning Maria has a soccer game, then my niece Bennett has her recital tomorrow afternoon, then I have to take the girls to the pool to do a little practicing (Maria and Zoe are going to take part in a swim meet of sorts on Tuesday evening), Sunday we may go to church if I can make it happen, then my cousin's high school graduation is in the afternoon, while Luci will be at a soccer game with the ILs, and then later in the early evening, Maria has another (and the LAST) soccer game. By the time this weekend is over I will need a vacation. All those bags to be packed with changes of clothing and water bottles and soccer balls and dance shoes and soccer shoes and snacks and jackets in case it gets cool and books/coloring books for the bored sisters and cameras and video cameras and and and...craziness. It gets exhausting. I will be very, very grateful for next week when it all ends for a little while. Beginning of June we'll start it all up again with Camp Center Stage and Artichokes (Art class) and Maria and Zoe might join the swim team which will mean practices twice a week and swim meets on the weekends. Ugh. I don't know how to stop this avalanche now....I didn't mean to get us this busy, honestly.
I must go pick up my bedroom now. It gets dreadfully neglected. And it is a mess. The girls like to use all the open space in there to make forts. *sigh* I make them clean it up most of the time, but somehow they still leave a trail of devastation in their wake. And I need to organize myself for the hair and makeup stuff too. I want to have it all laid out and ready to go before my MIL gets here. I'll have to feed them dinner at some point too, so that has to be planned and organized. AND I have to vacuum the hallway and stairs too. There are entirely too many stairs in this house. A trilevel seems like a cool idea, but the stairs are a killer for vacuumming. I need a new vacuum by the way...any suggestions for a great one for stairs?
I'm off....I'll post pics off my dollies tomorrow!!
