Well this week hasn't gone very well. Our Altima is in the shop this week again- motor mounts, thermometer, water pump. $$$$$$$$$$$$$There goes our summer vacation fund... Tuesday, I twisted my neck showing Hannah how to "properly" do a somersault. Nice. Wed. must have been so bad I blocked it from memory. Which brings me to Thursday.
Thursday, I was determined to not let lack of car slow me down. We can walk everywhere we need to go I confidently assured Jared when he told me he wouldn't be able to get home before 6:00pm. So at 3:30 we gear up to walk to Hannah's piano lesson just a couple miles away. Hannah rode her bike, Noah road his scooter, Bailey and I walked. We arrive just four minutes past the hour, so far so great.
Noah and I walk down to a park not to far away while Hannah was at her lesson, the wind picked up a little and I began to feel the temperature drop. Good thing we're keeping active otherwise we might really begin to get cold, I thought. Bailey spotted a Chihuahua and did his Bailey Beagle thing which consists of pulling the leash and howl barking. I wish I could describe the sound better- it's quite the spectacle. "All right time to go", I call to Noah. He took his last three turns on the slide then caught up to me on the path. Bailey was happy, Noah was happy I was happy. Cars are so overrated, I thought, we would have missed all this fun at the park and exercise had we driven.
We pick up Hannah and begin out trek home. By now the temperature has dropped about ten degrees and Noah and Hannah begin turning on one another. Soon Noah runs Bailey and I off the sidewalk and has to walk his scooter and apologize. He starts crying, he's tired, he's hungry, he's cold... He apologizes and begins to ride his scooter, this time much slower-not out of obedience but out of sheer exhaustion. We were a sight I'm sure crossing the intersection. By the time we got three quarters the way home Noah was full on crying, Hannah was complaining that her legs were rubbed raw and my hand that was holding Baileys leash was beginning to cramp. We finally made it home about 5:30.
We made dinner, Jared came home and mentioned he would like to play basketball at the Stake building tonight. I have some errands to run too, so no problem, we'll drop Jared off at the Stake, run to the book store and Costco, Jared can get a ride home and we should still be able to get the kids in bed by 8:00pm. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Actually, the kids and I had a great time at Borders getting distracted by all the pretty books. Noah spotted one about Chicago and begged me to read it to them. How could I resist. We finally made our way to Costco which wasn't very busy, but the three check out lines they had opened were really long. Hannah and Noah amused themselves by dreaming up the advantages of sharing a room with one another. Bunk beds, a solar system room with a ceiling that was midnight blue with glow stars shining down. They actually talked about this for about 45 minutes until realizing they would have to part with the bedrooms they already have. They came to the conclusion that they should just cut through the wall between the two rooms and make a window they could talk through. Now you have to understand that they live in one anothers rooms already and very seldom play without the other. They're so cute.
We arrived home at 8:30, Jared unloaded the car while I helped motivate the kids to get to bed. Soon they were asleep and Jared and I settled into our Thursday night TV time with ER.
This morning I woke up at 5:00 in a little bit of a mood. I hadn't slept mush the night before and my arm felt like it was on fire. My walk only helped my mood temporarily. I came home at 6:30 and to say the least my mood rubbed off on the rest of the family. I began to panic about upcoming events, pioneer trek, girls camp, ward activities, meetings, school, extracurricular activities, vacation plans, and the displacement of funds. It's fairly common for me to feel this way around this time of month- unfortunately that knowledge does little in the way of comfort. I begin piling and piling and piling. Until I'm ready to wipe the calendar clean for the next six months and anything that is not absolutely necessary must go. That's where Jared the voice of reason steps in. Ah Jared, the soothing voice of assurance and reason.
I feel like a putz complaining in the least. I just finished the book Lehi in the Wilderness. Yikes. The pictures of the desolate Arabian desert really help put things in perspective. At least it should.
How do we avoid being pampered pansies in this age? All I know is that the tendons in my arm are swollen, my neck is twisted, did I mention I somehow cut my toe open this morning and I'm ready for a new week. One where I'm stronger, and have our car back.
Love, Mel
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Sorry about your week, and I hope that your neck and hand recover soon. I am jealous of your list--well, only two things on your list! We had to give up the trek, which is something I wanted to do really bad, I have for a long time. And I didn't get asked to go to girls camp this year--the first time in 8 years. Times like these you think you will be happy to give up stuff, but then when it happens there is a feeling of loss. When it comes right down to it you always have time and energy for the things that you really want to do.You'll get back into the swing of these and be back on top of the world in no time.
Sorry to post again, you know me. I say or write then don't think I was clear and have to fix it. I guess what I was trying to say is, there are things out of our control and that can get us down, and feel like everything is out of our control, so we begin to spin. But we have to remember that most things are in our control and those things that aren't, well, they aren't! We get to learn to live with those! But I am positive that you will separate those things out again and everything will be great.
Thanks Danette! Today I woke up and my arm was better, my neck is almost 100% and our car ended up costing us much less than what we anticipated, like a thousand dollars less. Sean and Amy spent the night with us last night and we spent the day together today and that was really nice. I'm never sure if I should really share my most pathetic moments publicly. I was going to write a wisdom paragraph from the lessons I learned through the week and then spaced it at the end. Thanks for yours.
Love,
Mel
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