Family Fun Night

Monday mornings are hard. Monday mornings after a busy weekend are harder.

Thankfully, the hubby took over the reigns this morning and took all the boys to school along with the carpool while I laid in bed all morning. I was awake, but I just could not get up to function. My mind kept telling me to stand up and do something and my body was just in denial that it was Monday.

Right before lunch, I forced myself out of bed and got ready for the day, did some housework, office work, and made a mental list of the never ending chores I had to do at home. I don't know why, but I always think that these lists are achievable before the kids get home from school - but let's be real, fat chance 13 loads of laundry would be done within 3 hours. So I shortened the list and was excited when I realized I'd only have time to eat lunch, sort the laundry, and do the dishes - My mommy duties for the day were done. I'm that awesome.

After picking up the kids, I had to go straight to our Family Fun Night to do a little fundraising for our school PTA. The one thing I love about chairing the Programs branch of our PTA is being part of these functions outside of school. There's something magical about seeing people you only see in school out in the public. Kind of like seeing a zoo animal out in the wild. Yeah, it's that wonderful to me. When the community rallies up together to be part of something bigger than themselves that really inspires and motivates me to keep going though I falter in frustration at times.

Matthew ended up staying with me for the complete 4 hours that we were there, while his brothers went to Track Practice with the hubby. We ate the entire time and by the time I got home, my tummy was not happy at all.

The evening has been pretty much about catching up with things I wasn't able to do for the 4 hours I was gone. So with 5 minutes left before midnight I'm blogging away while waiting for the loads of laundry to finish through cycles so I can finally get some sleep.

It's going to be a long night.