In the last week:
•We drove over the mountains, packed up a family member and moved her and her daughter to our house.
•We cleaned out the basement, scrubbed it down, sealed it up, painted and loaded it with our haul from the days before.
•We organized our new home office, the kid’s room and toys.
•Next, we tried to help the rest of the house recover from all of it – we’re talking loads and loads of laundry and dishes.
•At Tangle, we re-arranged, labeled lots of new yarn, started preparing for the busy season ahead by putting together kits and lots and lots of gift ideas.
•I designed and sent off for printing and mailing a postcard advertising our after thanksgiving sale and new classes.
•I had two migraines and a 24 hour stomach bug. (We’re talking $50 worth of migraine meds.)
And everyday my eyes have popped open right at 6:30am with no hope of falling back asleep.

Written down in these few sentences, I can’t seem to convey the largeness of what has happened over the last week. I just can’t believe that a whole year hasn’t passed in the span of these past 7 days…

This morning, as I was driving home from dropping Eden off at school, I got a flat tire. Right on the bridge. Where they are doing construction work. Great. I’ve never gotten a flat tire before and even though I’m sure I could have changed it myself, I opted to call Jim instead and have him do it for me! And now we need to buy a new tire. Yay!

Right now it seems like my life is getting away from me. It seems like everywhere I go I’m late. Instead of being purposeful about anything, I’m just spinning circles just to keep up. I’m thinking the solution to any of this is to give up more sleep. And be more organized.

Sometimes I feel like there’s no point to organizing anything when I have to live my life with other people who aren’t so into the organization. But maybe it just means that I’m not organized well enough? Or maybe it means that sometimes things just don’t work in my favor. Like I had my grocery list all written up so I could shop Monday morning before work. And then Jim didn’t get paid when he was supposed to and that single event messed up my entire week. And it was such a great grocery list. There were so many good meals planned with snacks and lunches… It was even cross referenced to I could first check for organic items at the health food store before I went to the regular grocery store…. *sigh*

I don’t know… I guess I need to keep working at it. Keep trying to work on making our lives better and easier and keep being patient until it gets that way. (I’m not very good at being patient.)

There continues to be an ongoing conversation about church with the people in my life. And I continue to try to come to terms with my stance (or lack thereof) on the subject and always find it hard to put words to where I stand.

A friend of mine sent me a link to this article and I think that it pretty much sums it up for me… quite a bit.

It, I think, also agrees with this article about my generation (or close to my generation) that I read a while back.

Here are a few quotes from the first article that I can’t get over.

“This generation has the gift of discerning authenticity in the church, Shaddix plainly stated.”

“The traditional church will survive and thrive if its people have a change of heart about their God.”

Good stuff, yo.

Tomorrow I turn 26 years old. I own my own house, I’m married, I have two children, I own my own business – all things that would make one think I was the model of responsibility. One would think…. Today I am suffering from a hangover. Yes, go ahead, laugh. I should know better than this. In fact, I DO know better than this and I believe that I vowed to never let this happen again… yes, yes I did vow.

Sigh, what am I going to do with myself? I feel like such an idiot! Maybe this time I will actually learn my lesson? I just hope I’m feeling better so I can enjoy my birthday tomorrow.

(PS, sweet, wonderful Jim began my birthday week on Wednesday. I’m so spoiled.)

I just checked the forecast for the week. I can’t say how happy those mid 80’s are making me. So long Summer!

Awhile back we had a free evening and found ourselves sitting around bored. So I got a piece of paper and had everyone throw suggestions out about what we should do. Here’s the list:

Chuck E Cheese
ice cream
play games
watch a movie at the theater
buy a toy at kohls
play tag at the park
go on a picnic and a hike

Today, at the grocery store, a crotchety old man yelled a me for blocking the road because my cart was parked next to the toy vending machines, pushed all the way against the wall and was maybe taking up one inch of the doorway. Some people…

But I’m off to the enjoy the mountains one last time before it gets too cold, so I’m not going to let crotchety old men get to me. (Think of all the relaxing knitting time I’m going to have!)

My mom gave me 2 huge boxes of peaches yesterday, so today I pulled out my food dehydrator. (Note to self: next time, put it away clean.) I spent the last hour washing and slicing peaches. But the upside to that one – I’ll walk into the house to the wonderful smell of peaches when I get home from work today. (Not to mention, yummy dried peaches without any crap in them!)

I needed those big boxes of peaches to jump start me back into domesticity. Up until last year, I dried all sorts of fruits. I think after peaches I will do pears and then apples. That should get us good and stocked up for Eden’s lunches. Speaking of lunches, I’m having a hard time coming up with ideas for her lunches – I refuse to fill her with crap every day. This week she’s taking hard boiled eggs (she loves these), a cheese stick, an organic yogurt tube, and a beef jerkey stick. Ideas?

Well the wedding went off without a hitch. I have to say, it was the most perfect wedding I’ve ever been to. (Maybe because I was coordinating? ha ha!) I now know that I have to really love someone to coordinate their wedding. Wow, talk about a lot of work!! But it was so fun, and I can’t think of two people who deserve it more.

Also, the day of the wedding we had a new arrival to our family of friends. Miss Selah decided it was time to make her entrance. I’m sooo happy for Kevin and Sarah. Drop by here to wish them well.

Today I’m headed over the mountains for a quick trip to visit Jim’s sister. My friend Brooke is coming with me, so that will help a lot with the I-70 anxiety that I tend to experience. I gotta say, it’s so great to have friends that you can count on! I’m hoping to check out a few yarn shops and of course, another trip to Whole Foods would be great!

AND I also just found out some really exciting news concerning Tangle that I will be announcing soon. (Sorry for the suspense, but I’m just bursting at the seams!) This has just been SUCH a fantastic week and it’s just starting!

Wow, my life has been busy the last few days. I helped give my friend Sarah (who is about to POP) a baby shower, two of our dear friends are marrying each other on Saturday so that’s got us busy with planning and parties, and another great friend just moved back to town. Needless to say, our house has been quite the hub of activity.

There’s been a lot on my mind, but much of it involves other people – probably not a good idea to write about – so I’m missing the option of this outlet. I’ve also been thinking about how I handle my relationships. I always try to treat people the way I want to be treated and I wonder, do we all automatically default to treating each other the way we’d want to be treated? But maybe it’s better to treat people the way THEY want to be treated? Sometimes there is a big difference in the way I’d like things and the way Jim would like things. I tend to get upset with people about certain things, but are those things a matter of common courtesy or just something that is important to me? And I could ramble on, but I need to go make dinner.