No, I haven't been hospitalized, institutionalized, comatose, or imprisoned for the last month. And no, I'm not expecting baby #4! I've just been busy. Thus, I haven't written in awhile.
I'm not really sure why I've been so busy, but little things just keep coming up. Take for example, my litigation meeting on Monday. Usually, we get everything sorted out in time so that I can skip our group lunch and leave around noon (I love leaving early so that I can catch a quick lunch date with Mr. Wonderful). This week, however, the meeting went on and on and on and on. By the time I left the meeting, I was well behind rush hour traffic and was too close to falling asleep to be able to go birthday shopping for my almost 4 year old's birthday. My plans for this week were complete derailed (and yes, the pun is appropriate).
The long Monday resulted in a change of plans on Tuesday where homeschooling turned into a Mommy-Son date and shopping trip. That trip was fun, but altogether unsuccessful since train decorations are extremely hard to find--even Thomas decorations were yucky or overpriced. Seriously, who pays $20 plus the cost of helium for a Thomas balloon?! So after some planning and plotting, Boy Wonder and I decided that we would create our own train tracks at home so that Mr. T could have a train day party for his 4th birthday. Thus, our Wednesday agenda went from birthday partying to decorating and preparing for a party (all which I wanted to do on Monday!).
Boy Wonder was so excited about homemade paint-tape tracks that he offered to do the tracks himself this morning while I worked out. This sounded like a great creative project for him, and honestly, less for me to do. So I said got for it!
Later, when I walked into our large entry space to check out the tracks I noticed that Boy Wonder had done more than just put painter's tape on the floor. He proudly pointed out the fact that he had found these cool flags to add to his tracks. As he grinned, I stared in horror at the many dollars worth of stamps that he had stuck to my tile floor and walls. Forever stamps with the American flag were all over the place! Instead of appreciating his creativity, I'm pretty sure I shrieked and said a word that belongs on the "bad word list." In hind site, I should have taken a picture of his masterpiece, but at the time all I could do was focus on salvaging as many flags as I could.
Thus has been my life lately. I clean up messes daily. I deal with crying daily. I accidentally fall asleep before I finish my to-do list sometimes. But in the midst of all the madness that is life with preschoolers, I still manage to find time to party with and enjoy them. Sometimes I just forget to blog it.
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