A Season for Everything

It seems summer will be ending soon whether I like it or not. I like summer. Sure it's hot, but with a god mix of a/c, sprinklers and pools it can be really fun. What I love most is the freedom of summer. I'm not on anyone else's schedule. Ryan is great at getting himself up and ready for whatever the day has in store and Lily has been sleeping until 9:30 some days. So I have been able to sleep in which is heavenly for me. Summer has been great.

Fall will bring a new season in my life in more ways than one. Of course it will cool off and the leaves will turn many beautiful colors. This fall will also mark a new season in motherhood for me. Lily will start preschool which means I will have regular and scheduled time alone. This is both exciting and hard for me. It will be hard to send my babies off to 3rd grade and preschool, but I'm excited to have time to do things like get groceries and run errands alone. It's the little things really;-)

I'm hoping to use my time so well that I'm able to do projects that have been waiting years for me. Maybe I'll get those scrapbooks I've been wanting to do done or reorganize the spare room so it's useful again. Maybe I'll even be able to keep my house clean enough to have visitors more often! Okay, so that's a pipe dream;-) If I can at least keep it clean enough so I don't feel guilty doing other projects that would be a major win for me. I have a list a mile long of things I want to do. I need to figure out a way to break it down so I don't feel overwhelmed and end up doing nothing.

And now I will leave you with these famous words adapted from Ecclesiastes 3...

"To everything
turn, turn,turn
there is a season
turn, turn, turn
and a time for every purpose under heaven." -The Byrds

Now it can be stuck in your head like it is in mine:-)

Time Out

My child cracks me up sometimes. I was at the table eating and I heard him stomping up the steps. "What's wrong?" I asked.
"I'm giving myself a time out."
"What happened?"
"I'll tell you later. I can't talk right now. I'm in time out."

Laptopless

It's not as sexy as it sounds---get it? lap top*less;-) Yeah, you're right, it's not that funny. Jay has my laptop again. He had it all last week because he was on a trip with the middle school ministry at church. He was supposed to be off work, but he had to log in and work a couple hours each day because his co-worker was sick. It's a good reason and I'm glad he was able to work it out and still go on his trip because it was a great trip for him.

Still, I really don't like not having my laptop. I don't know how people sit at desks all day. It's bad enough that I have to do all my photo editing at the desk, but now I have to do all my web surfing and e-mailing here, too. Blah. Plus I have a project where I have to transfer a bunch of information to a spread sheet. I actually may end up doing that on the desktop since it has 2 screens and that makes it easier to see the information I'm transferring, but I started it and got about 1/10th of the way through and had to stop for a while. I took a break from the desk and now here I am blogging from the desk...I guess that's not very responsible of me, huh? Well, I do have until September to do the project, so I think it will be okay;-)

So yeah, like I said, Jay has my laptop again because he is on his way to Michigan for a funeral and his co-worker is due to have a baby any day (like several people I know). Jay wants to be prepared to work just in case. Another really good reason. I'm really glad he is being so responsible and prepared, but I miss my laptop.

You may play the violins for me now. LOL