this could also be called "lds exhausted: part 2"
i knew i had a number of things to get done today but didn't think it would be so rushed because... well, i had a whole day to do it and a husband that could watch the kids while i get everything done! it didn't really happen like that. the day started out normal enough but then by noon, christopher was gone to give someone a blessing. went he got home, i started baking the sweet potatoes for my souffle and mowed the lawn and then jumped in the shower. by 2:30, i was driving to the church to decorate our october/november table for the ward birthday party. i was hoping it would be super quick but when i got there, we had two long rectangular tables instead of one single round table and the table cloth provided didn't reach the whole way and the stuff i'd brought to decorate weren't gonna work. luckily, the main party planner brought a ton of her halloween/thanksgiving decorations that i could use but i was still up a creek with the table cloth issue. i ended up scouring the relief society cabinets and found a cabinet full of awesome table cloths... not our ward. thank goodness for lds tools and my friend, andrew, that helped me figure out how to look up directories of other wards in our stake. i left a voicemail for that ward's rs president explaining the whole situation. she called back but my phone was on silent. then i called her back and she gave me the go ahead to help myself but please not get the nice ones stained with food. ummm, so i helped myself to some middle of the road table cloths and even though it took 30 minutes to get that situation all figured out, it was still quicker than running to a store and back to the church... which i didn't have time for. like literally not enough minutes. i didn't get home from decorating til 4 and i still had to make my sweet potato souffle. so i had an hour to make and bake that. and feed abigail dinner, and feed brady and put him down for a nap, and clean our disaster of a kitchen/great room because christopher invited people over for the byu game, and i had to finish getting ready because when i went to set up the church, i had wet hair and no makeup (what does this say about me that i let myself go out like this all. the. time. because holy cow makeup is annoying and completely overrated), and really it was just a bit hectic with abigail wanting to help me cook (and almost knocking all of her teeth out on our counter tops when the chair she was standing on fell over) and brady non stop crying because he's having a rough couple of days and isn't in the mood for me to keep neglecting him. and then our babysitter was 15 minutes late and [sigh] ugh. see how there are no paragraphs? that was my day. my day was a serious case of the "no paragraphs" and it was bad news.
but y'know what? my sweet potato souffle (i used double the sweet potatoes but followed the rest of the recipe exactly. next time i will cut sugar in half) came together great and i pulled it out of the oven as we were leaving (late babysitter means it finished cooking earlier but i turned off the oven and let it stay warm in there) and so when we all sat down at the party to eat our food, it was still gloriously hot. and it was awesome. it was my first time making that recipe but paula deen never disappoints and this time she knocked it out of the park. everyone was raving about it and how amazing it was and how it was perfectly hot still and on and on. i'm totally a words of affirmation person and it made me feel so great to know i had done something to make people happy. sometimes you perform acts of service and never really know if it was truly helpful for or appreciated by the recipient. i like to know when it is. and our october/november haunted thanksgiving table actually turned out looking pretty cute and everyone loved it which was a relief because if it sucked, i was the only person to blame. and they had three categories to vote on and our table actually won one! i didn't vote for our table and i don't think our table deserved to win but it was fun just the same. and everyone sitting at our winning table got a candy bar so that was fun. and they did a family feud game and it was awesome and hilarious. the guy that played the game show host was absolutely perfect. and he had a gigantic microphone that i think someone had to steal from a podium or something. the girls i was sitting with were cracking up the whole time at the responses and really just everything. one of our favorites was the question about what lehi took with him into the wilderness and "yes, liahona is up there. doesn't matter that he didn't actually take that with him, all that matters is that 8 people said he did." ha. and even though i ate way too much and felt sick afterwards, it was soooo worth it. our table had incredible food. the october people brought homemade bread and salad, some sort of chili casserole with crescent rolls on top, hot dog crescent mummies, bottles of martinelli's that hung out in smoking dry ice and the november people brought rotisserie chicken, stuffing (it was the most amazing stuffing i've ever had in my life... golden raisins, apples, and apparently it was made with corn bread... i'll share the recipe here as soon as i get it), sweet potato souffle, and a chocolate silk cream pie. ohmygoodness it was all so delicious. i admit i had a kinda downer attitude about the event because getting people to rsvp is necessary (because of the potluck aspect) and about as easy as climbing kilimanjaro and i wasn't keen on the "pay for a babysitter for a date night where you'll sit at a different table than your husband." but everyone mixed and mingled and chris ditched his group (their theme was duck dynasty... which has nothing to do with june but it was creative and i totally voted for them and they won a category too) to come sit near me while we watched the family feud game.
and the rest of the night was just fine. boys watched the game, i put kids to bed and finished the personal progress board so it'll be ready for church tomorrow. hallelujah. it is shocking the amount of hours that go into something as simple as a poster board to track personal progress. seriously hours and hours. abigail didn't nap this afternoon (we're trying to phase her out... it's going ehhh) so she went to bed with zero resistance. after we prayed, i thought maybe there was a chance i could hold her and she would just fall asleep on me (100% wishful thinking because that is soooo not her style) so i just stood by her crib and held her and told her to put her head down on my shoulder. after a minute of that she put just looked at me and said "will you put me in my crib now?" ha. and then when i did she rolled right to her side and closed her eyes. poor girl... she really still needs a nap during the day but there's just not enough time to have a nap and enough awake time before bed. transitions... they're all transient, right? transient transitions.
who's pumped for sunday tomorrow?!
this girl right here.
tonight for bed, i encouraged abigail to pick a book we haven't read yet but she kept coming back to "tell me about your day today" and since we've only read it once and it was at least two weeks ago, i gave in. well, it describes my day perfectly. it's about a little boy who loves going to bed. and when he's in bed, he asks each of his stuffed animals about their day and then lastly, they ask the boy about his day. the recurring words for each day's explanation are "the who,/ the what,/ the why,/ and the way.../ the whole wild thing.../ turned out okay."
that was my day today. and yesterday. and the day before. and really this whole week. it's been super busy with just tons of random things and even the time i spend with my kids has been stressful because i'm thinking of everything else i need to be doing. well, this entire week, and my crazy long to do list, all got done. and the whole wild thing...
turned out okay.
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