Weekly Wrap-Up: Back to a full week

Man the last couple of days have been rough.  I'm really re-thinking the whole buying groceries online and having them delivered.  More on that in a second.

Monday morning I found that my children are completely self-sufficient in the mornings, even if left to their own devices for many hours.  How do I know this now?  Because Monday I turned my alarm off without realizing it.  I thought I had gotten smart.  I made it to where I have to actually shake my phone to get the alarm to snooze.  The idea was that this would keep me from randomly slapping at the screen while still asleep and accidentally turning off the alarm instead of just snoozing it.  I've been doing it this way for a while, and it has worked well.  I probably snooze it 4 times before actually getting up, but having to shake the phone makes me wake up a bit more.  However, Monday morning I did manage to turn the alarm off.  I have a vague recollection of hitting the screen and it turning off and thinking, "Wait, don't I have to shake it?" before going back to sleep.  I don't remember anything else until 10:28 when I woke up and saw what time it was.  I blame it on the fan Hubby turns on every night that is really loud.  I didn't hear the girls at all, even after I woke up.  After checking on them and finding they were all alive and well I finished getting ready and we got started on school, just a tad bit late!  Needless to say, there was school in the afternoon, but only with the oldest.  Now I'm trying to figure out if I need to take the drastic step of making it where the alarm doesn't turn off until I get up and do 15 jumping jacks or something.  I'm pretty sure I could find an alarm like that if I looked hard enough!

Some of the  ladies in our group

A couple more

Tuesday night I was able to go to a Chonda Pierce concert with several ladies from church.  There was a little bit of confusion when we saw the multitudes of people parking and going towards the convention center.  Let's just say that the caliber of people where not what we were expecting at a Chonda Pierce event.  Turns out there was a WWE wrestling event in the next building.  Yep, that would explain it!  Chonda was as funny as ever.  I was saddened to hear about the struggles she is having in her personal life.  I knew about her depression, but she has a lot more to deal with right now.  It makes it even more amazing that she is able to laugh and make people laugh with the pain she is dealing with.  It just solidifies my thoughts that you can never know what a person is going through based on what you see.

We finally started back with IEW for #1 this week.  I excited that she was able to do pretty much everything by herself without minimal help from me.  That is the ultimate goal, for them to be able to sit down with references and be able to write a well-written paper without any help.  #2 still has a ways to go, but that is to be expected since #1 has been at it longer.  The bummer is that by the time I get #2 to where she can write on her own I'll be starting over with #3.  I'm telling you, I really think I would have had my kids closer together if I had known how it would work when it came to schooling!  Kids closer in age are much easier to teach together than doing everything separately!

Thursday we were back to going to our Hilltop Speakers.  This is basically a public speaking group, associated with Communicators for Christ.  Hubby and I have both wanted our girls to be involved in something that would get them more comfortable with public speaking and more comfortable meeting and talking with strangers in general.  We like Communicators for Christ because their entire premise is preparing children to be able to tell about Jesus at any given moment, no matter who they are speaking to.  I love that idea!  It's been a bit more work for me than I was anticipating, but we're finding our groove.  We only meet twice a month, which is good for me.  Otherwise Thursdays would be pretty stressful all the time.  We have to finish school and eat lunch early to make it to the meeting on time.  For now it is working pretty well.

As for why yesterday and today have been rough--it seems like if something could go wrong with trying to make meals it has.  Refrigerated products left out for several hours and going bad, flour spilling in the bottom of the chest freezer, groceries ordered online being delivered to the wrong address, miscommunication between Hubby and myself as to what veggies to put in the freezer and what to be left out, spills, rotten meat, etc, etc.  I could go on, but I'm putting myself in a bad mood again.  Let's just leave it with Hubby having to get chicken for the family we promised to provide dinner for tonight and our own dinner may or may not be ready by 8.  I planned on comforting myself with a large caramel rice krispie treat, but elements of that were also in the wrongly delivered groceries.  I will instead eat peanut m&ms and glare at anyone who asks me when dinner is.