My Day

So I just posted about Parker's fun program at school tonight on the other blog.  He did such a wonderful job in the role of Stinkbug.  Now I'm sitting here on my "letting it all hang out" blog reflecting on this day.

1.  I had my last evaluation for this school year today.  Everything went really well, so I'm not complaining.  Just admitting the fact that I am tired from the anticipation and carry through.  So thankful it's over, and I can feel good about it.  But tired.  So very tired.

2. An afternoon of homework, dinner and clean-up, fancying up a stinkbug, and racing back to school.

3. An evening of cheering on a stinkbug from the audience, taking pictures, and feeling proud.

4. Home, bedtime, preparing stuff for tomorrow, etc.

5. Hearing a cry, rushing in and finding a child covered (and I mean covered) in vomit.  Cleaning up a bed (with help from the most wonderful husband and daddy in the world), changing sheets, starting the washing machine, helping with an unplanned shower, and tucking in for a second time tonight.  Predicting that it could be a long night.

6. Feeling thankful that I get to be here for every single part of it.  And I wouldn't change a thing.  Except maybe the vomit.

(I really don't like that word.  The "v" word.  I just don't like any of the alternatives either.)

7. Praying.

It Had Me At Hello

I've been a little obsessed lately.  Who me, obsessed with something? Surely not.  Ahem.

I looked EVERYWHERE for a new calendar that would please me.  In case you don't know, I can be a little bit picky.  Ahem, Ahem.  I searched the world over looking for a 1) cute calendar that 2) had adequate space to suit my fancy. 

(Sidenote: That just reminded me of that old Hee-Haw song that goes, "I searched the world over and thought I'd found true love, but you met another and pfft you were gone".  Does anybody remember that? Anybody? Anybody? Please tell me you watched Hee-Haw when you were little.)

Then I found this little beauty:

Oh, I fell in love.  Truly. Madly. Deeply. It had to be ordered online, and that turned into a fiasco.  A fiasco I tell you.  I ordered, the site was overloaded and the order wouldn't go through, it finally went through, I received an email a week later that the order was lost, I reordered, I waited a sweet forever, I finally got it in the mail.  I'm proud to report that it was worth the wait.  Welcome to my life, baby girl.  I think she needs a name...any suggestions?