After dropping the kids at school, we headed down to drop Lori for her flight to California. We made it to DIA at 9:45 and she was at her gate 3 minutes before boarding, perfect timing!
I then hit a few stores to pick up supplies to overhaul the house. I made it home with some groceries and about 20 storage boxes which I’ll be filling up over the next 48 hours. The problem is that before I can start to clean, I have to clean! It’s such a mess that I can’t even start without first doing a high level cleaning that includes things like laundry, dishes, junk on the kids floors, under the beds, purging old clothes and more. I manged to get a little of that done last night but will hit the ground running around 9 am this morning.
It’s December 1st! December is a great month, not only for Christmas and a few of our family birthdays, but for that inner feeling most people get that they don’t seem to have the rest of the year. Hopefully everyone is a little kinder, a little more forgiving of others and a little more generous. I was in a bad mood yesterday afternoon when I arrived home due to the mess, and the stress of work and the holidays, and caught myself taking it out on the boys. Once I stepped out of myself and looked at how I was acting, I stopped and took a deep breath and apologized to them and we started over. Even us adults that are supposed to be older and wiser can go off sometimes, ugh.
Oh well, today is another day. Jag has a game tonight at 4:30, Ty has practice from 3:50 until 6 and well, you know what I’m doing. The Birds of Prey downhill (ski race) with athletes from 24 countries is here this weekend but I don’t think we’ll see any of it. Tomorrow Ty has a tournament and so does Jag. Hopefully their games will be at different times so I can drive back and forth between the two schools to watch them both.
We’re still waiting on some presents to arrive in the mail so we can wrap them up and ship them back out. Lori of course is with her Mom for the next two days. While I could use the help, it’s easier for me to just purge on my own. Looks like Dixie is coming out for Christmas. Not sure when she’ll arrive but Lori will figure that out in the next day or two.
It’s 6:15 now so I need to get the boys moving. Hope everyone is well. Enjoy the holidays and if you’re not feeling the “spirit”, get it together now!
God Bless you all.