I did it!!!

This is the best way I could think to explain how I feel right about now. I made it through spring break relatively sane! Now, just surviving a week of keeping my kids happy is a lot, but then what I did that was as extraordinary as Rocky in this picture, is that I watched 3 extra kids on wednesday and thursday (2 of which were girls Mckenna's age.) I was very happy to watch our friends' kids while they were in Georgia looking for a house. They had the whole week to look and take care of their business, and while we are VERY sad that yet another one of our good friends are leaving us for bigger, greener pastures, we were happy to help them get things worked out for their move! Then the next night I (in sheer delirium I'm sure, hence, the picture of Luke and his hat) volunteered my house for another sleep over with Kara, Mckenna's cousin and Mckenna's little friend Kayla, of whom share a "friendship" together. As if we didn't get any sleep on wednesday night, a little bit of a catch up on thursday night, we did even worse by getting to bed at 1:00 a.m. along with a game of musical beds with all the kids and then a matinée feature of High School Musical 2 at 5 a.m. Yep, lots of fun! Then in what is still shocking to even me, was that I took all of those girls plus of course little Lukey and Mia to the George Bush Library for the annual Easter Celebration for the egg hunt and games. We stayed for the egg hunt and long enough to score a grab bag and then we headed out. Why so early you ask? Well, for starters I was by myself because Jonny was playing Rambo in the wilderness with the scouts, which left me alone most of the day on thursday and through saturday afternoon. And then the other reason for skipping out so quickly was that my poor heart just couldn't take loosing one of them more than the 3 times that I did. Believe me, it is not easy finding children in a humongous group of kids the same age and height, with at least 2 adults to every one child. I mean see... I don't even know who I am taking a picture of here...

Yeah, I lost each of the kids (minus of course Mia; okay and Lukey--I had a death grip on his hand) at least once. Yeah, I thought the girls' parents would want them back! I realized after finding them after the third time that I was waaay in over my head and humbly bowed out of what I thought I was woman enough to handle. I do know my limits! Why I even went in the first place is beyond me, I DON'T do things like that flying solo. But I did recover them all and so I guess it could have been worse right?

Yeah, so my house could very easily be declared to be in a state of emergency considering the floor is lost beneath pretty much all of our whole wardrobe's not to mention a layer of crumbs and dirt and stuff. Anytime I tried to let the kids just go it alone while I tried to get something done, things just seemed to fall apart. So needless to say, we spent a lot of time at the park, in the back yard, at McDonald's, lots of coloring, wii playing, playing board games, and tons of eating/snacking. Whoosh, that was a lot for our laid back, easy going life style! I get exhausted even thinking about it!