February
February is always such a tough month for me. I don't know why but it is so dreary and everyone seems to get sick so there are many lonely days stuck at home or if we make it out, our friends are stuck at home with their sick kids. It always seems to be the toughest month for me to be happy; probably a lack of vitamin D or something but this year has been no exception.
First, it started off with my daughter being sick and home from school for four days. She can be drama so that was a long time for me and I was very happy to send her back to school and have a break. My in-laws came to visit for a weekend and it was nice to have them here but it took a lot of emotional energy (still haven't discussed or resolved my very negative feelings about their move and my kids were disappointed that it was such a short visit) and then wouldn't you know it, I spent all the next week sick myself. That Sunday night I went to bed shivering and totally layered up and then Monday I could hardly get off the couch. I got kind of annoyed at my dear husband because he really didn't seem to be concerned with how awful I felt until about Thursday when he said he was getting concerned because I was still sick. I usually just bounce back and I rarely get sick so I guess he just isn't used to being concerned about my health, but we talked and now he knows how to better handle the situation next time.
Then it was Valentine's Day, which was nice because a friend offered to watch our kids so we had a nice, quiet evening alone. We stayed home and talked, went for a walk, and then went out for a simple dinner at Potbelly, which was delicious and wonderfully not crowded at all. He got me beautiful roses and it was a nice evening. Saturday we celebrated my son's birthday by taking our family and a few of his friends out for breakfast and then bowling. Then they played video games here for a while before we took them home. They are cute kids and it was a fun day, although I still wasn't feeling great at this point. Then my family all showed up; my sister and her family and my parents came down for the weekend. We went to Curtis's basketball game and it was fun to have family there to cheer him on. We went out for dinner and then spent Sunday at church and hanging out here playing games and such. Monday was a day off and we went up to D.C. to attend my nephew's orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center. There were four youth orchestras playing and it went a bit long but they were all fantastic and I really enjoyed their musical selections. The kids did really well too. Afterwards my family all left to drive home and we went to National Harbor for dinner and then home.
Then the next day I went and took a milkshake to Curtis at lunch time because it was his actual birthday and we had his birthday dinner that night, although he had already opened his presents the day before. It is tough having a weekday birthday and we had to spread his out over a few days, which led him to say his actual birthday didn't feel like his birthday. I find birthday celebrations to be challenging sometimes. Sometimes I have great ideas and it is a wonderful day and other times I feel like I let my kids down, but it can be hard to get pumped up to make a day special when there is so much else going on.
The rest of the month has been filled with driving the symphonic band carpool, driving to dance and back at least 7 times a week, basketball games (last time we lost 6-9=painful) and church activities. I lost my date last Friday night to a formal dinner/dance for all the 16-18 year olds in the stake. All the bishops were asked to serve the kids dinner. I have mixed feelings about this. Part of me gets that it is nice to have the bishops there, with the kids and serving them since the youth are a bishop's number one priority. On the other hand, don't bishops serve the youth a lot already? Wives are invited but there was no way I was going to pay a babysitter to go to a dinner only to watch my husband serve and then do dishes for the rest of the night. The kids all loved it so I suppose it is time well spent but I tend to get a bit grumpy about stake activities. They are far away and take so much time and I don't like how they are on weekends. But we do what we're asked to do and the kids and I had a fun date night watching the first Harry Potter movie.
Today was my last jump bunch class. My kids have been taking this parks and rec class for eight years and so I have sat through a lot of it. It is a fun sports class where they do a different sport each week and all of my kids have liked it, but Brandon has loved it. He has done it 5 times and I was not sad to say that today was our last class ever. Mostly I am just ready to move on to the next phase of my life and get out of this awkward in between one. Curtis has his last basketball practice and game this weekend and then we have a few weeks break before soccer starts. At least then my husband won't be the coach so it will be more relaxing for everyone.
Stress, sickness, loneliness, lethargy, gloominess, exhaustion and sadness have colored this month so in the words of Jimmy Fallon, go on, git, February. I am done with you!
First, it started off with my daughter being sick and home from school for four days. She can be drama so that was a long time for me and I was very happy to send her back to school and have a break. My in-laws came to visit for a weekend and it was nice to have them here but it took a lot of emotional energy (still haven't discussed or resolved my very negative feelings about their move and my kids were disappointed that it was such a short visit) and then wouldn't you know it, I spent all the next week sick myself. That Sunday night I went to bed shivering and totally layered up and then Monday I could hardly get off the couch. I got kind of annoyed at my dear husband because he really didn't seem to be concerned with how awful I felt until about Thursday when he said he was getting concerned because I was still sick. I usually just bounce back and I rarely get sick so I guess he just isn't used to being concerned about my health, but we talked and now he knows how to better handle the situation next time.
Then it was Valentine's Day, which was nice because a friend offered to watch our kids so we had a nice, quiet evening alone. We stayed home and talked, went for a walk, and then went out for a simple dinner at Potbelly, which was delicious and wonderfully not crowded at all. He got me beautiful roses and it was a nice evening. Saturday we celebrated my son's birthday by taking our family and a few of his friends out for breakfast and then bowling. Then they played video games here for a while before we took them home. They are cute kids and it was a fun day, although I still wasn't feeling great at this point. Then my family all showed up; my sister and her family and my parents came down for the weekend. We went to Curtis's basketball game and it was fun to have family there to cheer him on. We went out for dinner and then spent Sunday at church and hanging out here playing games and such. Monday was a day off and we went up to D.C. to attend my nephew's orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center. There were four youth orchestras playing and it went a bit long but they were all fantastic and I really enjoyed their musical selections. The kids did really well too. Afterwards my family all left to drive home and we went to National Harbor for dinner and then home.
Then the next day I went and took a milkshake to Curtis at lunch time because it was his actual birthday and we had his birthday dinner that night, although he had already opened his presents the day before. It is tough having a weekday birthday and we had to spread his out over a few days, which led him to say his actual birthday didn't feel like his birthday. I find birthday celebrations to be challenging sometimes. Sometimes I have great ideas and it is a wonderful day and other times I feel like I let my kids down, but it can be hard to get pumped up to make a day special when there is so much else going on.
The rest of the month has been filled with driving the symphonic band carpool, driving to dance and back at least 7 times a week, basketball games (last time we lost 6-9=painful) and church activities. I lost my date last Friday night to a formal dinner/dance for all the 16-18 year olds in the stake. All the bishops were asked to serve the kids dinner. I have mixed feelings about this. Part of me gets that it is nice to have the bishops there, with the kids and serving them since the youth are a bishop's number one priority. On the other hand, don't bishops serve the youth a lot already? Wives are invited but there was no way I was going to pay a babysitter to go to a dinner only to watch my husband serve and then do dishes for the rest of the night. The kids all loved it so I suppose it is time well spent but I tend to get a bit grumpy about stake activities. They are far away and take so much time and I don't like how they are on weekends. But we do what we're asked to do and the kids and I had a fun date night watching the first Harry Potter movie.
Today was my last jump bunch class. My kids have been taking this parks and rec class for eight years and so I have sat through a lot of it. It is a fun sports class where they do a different sport each week and all of my kids have liked it, but Brandon has loved it. He has done it 5 times and I was not sad to say that today was our last class ever. Mostly I am just ready to move on to the next phase of my life and get out of this awkward in between one. Curtis has his last basketball practice and game this weekend and then we have a few weeks break before soccer starts. At least then my husband won't be the coach so it will be more relaxing for everyone.
Stress, sickness, loneliness, lethargy, gloominess, exhaustion and sadness have colored this month so in the words of Jimmy Fallon, go on, git, February. I am done with you!
I don’t like February either! I miss everyone and I’ve had the same struggle with birthdays this year too!
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