Friday, January 7, 2011


Throughout December, amidst the "Christmas crazy" I kept telling myself that as soon as Christmas was over, and the kids were back in school, things would calm down.

I was wrong.

I had a "date" with my calendar yesterday, and between basketball, scouts, piano, Dr. and dentist appts, and RS we have something (or 2 or 3 somethings) on every weekday night 'til March.

Since we have Kindergarten splitting up our days this year, I have I mean get to do my bi-weekly Walmart run on the weekends...with four kids in tow.

Sigh.

I guess this is my new normal.  I've become "Taxi Mom".

Thankfully, my "taxi" is equipped with a DVD player and bum-warmers in the seats.  I have no room to complain!

Every day I am in awe of the mother's who have 6 or 8 kids.  I don't know how they keep track of everything from schedules, to homework, to chores.

If anyone has any great crock-pot recipe's, or 10 minute dinner idea's I'd love to hear them.

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Speaking of calendars, I have to include this story about Caleb, our resident "hoarder":

Before Christmas, Todd had the boys do a deep clean of their room. He told Caleb to throw away his calendar because there was only one week left in the year, and we had already acquired a free 2011 calendar for him to use.

Caleb resisted, and exclaimed, "But Dad! We can re-use this calendar in seven years.  I want to keep it!"

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3 comments:

Sandra said...

Ha ha Caleb's a smart kid. I can only imagine how it will be when they hit high school and do sports or other extra-curricular activities. We have something every day too. I'm sure it will be that way till they leave home.

Charlotte said...

I just sat down to finally print myself a 2011 calendar... but got distracted with reading blogs. Thanks for reminding me why I sat down.

And thanks for the reminder to enjoy the short period of time I have left where our lives are relatively unscheduled.

Did you let him keep the calendar?

bevanmission said...

I have a favorite calendar with beautiful pictures of the Savior. And so I print out a calendar and then glue the months over the previous year's months and still enjoy the images that I love.