Something's Gotta Give

I can't put my finger on what has caused the crazy busy-ness in our household over these last few weeks.  Maybe it's the tornado of a 22-month old that we have (and the constant following her around shouting "No!  Don't touch that!  Don't lick the dog's feet!  Why would you think it's a good idea to flush your doll's head in the toilet?  Good god, child...save the swirlies for when you'll inevitably be a bully to the rest of your kindergarten class!").

Maybe it's the increase in online businesses that happens during the Christmas season.  Every day, I'm creating orders (and a lot of them custom) to be shipped out or picked up.  After the massive trade show at the beginning of the month, I ran out of a lot of stock.  So, I've been spending a lot time doing inventory, re-buying a lot of product and updating the website.  Don't get me wrong...I'm not complaining.  I love my online business and it doesn't feel like work :)

Perhaps it's that we're taking care of my parent's rental houses while they're in Portugal and everyone's taps seem to be leaking or their basements are flooding.  Or their frickin' furnace quits at 11:00 at night and SaskEnergy won't come look at it.

I think part of the crazyness has to do with home care coming in for Joel. Although it is a HUGE break for us, it also puts us under a time constraint in the evenings.  They come at 7:30 to put him into bed.  Honestly, there are some evenings where I don't have supper cooked until 6:45 which means I have to rush to feed him before home care comes to give him night lunch.  Plus, the fact that there are two strangers in our house, twice a day just adds to the busy-ness because I'll be good god damned if strangers are going to see my house a mess and potentially judge me on it :)

On top of all of the "to dos", there's the regular day-to-day things that need to be done...meals, laundry, tidying, baths, answering emails.  Oh, yeah...and working my two days a week.  Honestly?  Going to work is BREAK for me lately.  I have ZERO prep I need to do and I never have to bring home any marking.  I simply show up, see what the students worked on the previous day and assign new stuff.  Easy peezy.  When they get to school in the morning, they always know what they have to work on, first thing and it takes them close to an hour to complete it.  That first hour of almost complete silence is GOLD! for me :)

So, all of this to say...the blog has been a tad bit neglected lately.  There are lots of funny things that go through my mind where I think, "Ooooh! That needs to be a post!" (like when I asked Mike what was the point of Movember...do all the men shave their mustaches and then donate the wiry hairs to men who have had reconstructive ball surgery after cancer?).

My goal is to be able to post at least once a week for the next few weeks.  Unfortunately, the busy-ness seems like it's only going to increase from now until Christmas and, like the title of this post implies, when you're this busy, something's gotta give.  For now, it seems to be my blog :(

While you anticipate the next post, please enjoy this photo of Kat and Santa.  As you can tell, she was beyond thrilled to meet him.