A moment to breathe, for now

Tonight is the first school night in 37 school nights that there is NOTHING scheduled!

Truly, I am in shock by this.

For the last eight weeks, since school has started, my family has been running non-stop after school for football and volleyball and scouts.

As much as I love cheering on my kids both biological and borrowed from a foreign country, there comes a point at about 20 non-stop school night running arounds where I am simply done.

Over it.

I'd like to say that I'm at a lost of what to do now in the evenings, but I can't.

You see in those eight weeks, chores of every magnitude have been set to the wayside.  Animals have been fed while both laundry and dishes have been washed, but that has been pretty much it.

There are piles and piles of mail all over my kitchen and dining room that need gone through.  I'm sure that we have all kinds of critters living in corners of the house and under beds that are easily hiding from us because there has been no time to stop their growth.  Our dust bunnies have become dust Flemish Giants... I kid you not.

Tonight, when I go home, I will be able to cook my family a meal and we will be able to eat at 7:00 pm rather than the normal 8:30 or 9 pm time.

Perhaps I will have time to play with my horses more... I sure hope so, they are sort of fun to play with.

Starsky, Winter, and Jersey enjoying the hole in the barn and and evening snack.

I should be able to work on a Christmas stocking for Ayleen (the borrowed foreign daughter of ours from Germany) and hope to get it done before it is needed.

Here is Ayleen and Christian at his last football game of the year.

I will get to make some pain oils from Young Living Essential Oils to help me curb my body's dependency on acetaminophen.

Laundry may actually get folded and put away.... GASP!

But what I am really looking forward to the most is spending quality time with my family.

Believe it or not, but household chores can be a great way to spend quality time with each other.  The music will get turned up.  We will cook together and clean together and dance our hearts out.

All together.

When we are done with that, then we may start a fire in the fire place and roast marshmallows and play a game.  Or perhaps we will sit down and watch some television.

I'm not sure, but I am sure of one thing:

That we will all be in one place, bugging the hell out of each other, and loving every minute of it.

That is...

until girls basketball try outs....

But that is two weeks away, so for now, I will cherish every moment of NOT running around.