And Again, I Lose Almost a Whole Week.

Hmm. So it’s Friday again and uh, I don’t have a lot of blogginess to show for it. I’ve got plenty of bloggy goodness waiting to happen, but NO time to get it done. In fact, I’ve been so preoccupied with my real life that I only just realized this morning that I did NOT do a Trouble Spot Tuesday this week. Didn’t even cross my mind at all. Guess that shows how well I’m doing, huh? Uh yeah. How about that. Hope you did something "organize-y" on Tuesday. I might have. I don't remember.

My days of late, since we got 12 inches of snow earlier this week, are centered around snow gear. At least 3 times a day we’re getting snow pants, hats, boots, mitts, coats (take it all off to go to the bathroom and start again) to go outside to bask in the snowiness that is our yard right now. And me, I’m outside along with them, socializing with the neighbours, shoveling snow (uh, I forgot about all of that after a decade of almost no snow) and hitting our little slope on the sled.

In between, I’m frantically trying to play catch up – cleaning/laundry/meals, drying snow gear for the next round of outdoor play. All the STUFF that has to happen for real life to function normally. However, we’ve had a lot of fun and are all sleeping pretty well because we’re so exhausted after all that fresh air.

Mouse’s school has had a pizza sale fundraiser and today was the day for making all 400 pizzas. Oy. I could get a job shmearing sauce on pizza crusts. I’ve certainly had enough practice. It was fun though. One Dad came to help and told corny jokes and we all swapped stories about choosing kindergartens and I learned that our local elementary school is actually pretty good, so I’m not quite so worried about Grade 1 for Mouse in a few years. (Yeah, planning a head now). Haha. The really good part about the pizza sale… ok, 2 really good parts about the pizza sale is that 1) dinner tonight is a NO brainer. Yeah, guess what we’re having? 2) We get to buy the extra pizza toppings for really cheap. Last time I got 2 huge bags of shredded cheese, that we’re still working through (it froze very well) and this time I got a HUGE bag of pepperoni (a staple here for Mouse) for super cheap. Yeah, that rocks.

And tomorrow we’re getting up at o’dark-thirty to catch a plane to go somewhere nice and sunny for a week. We’re looking forward to the break, especially after these crazy past few weeks. Here’s hoping the weather cooperates and we’re all able to come back refreshed. I’m packing the laptop (so robber-bad guys don’t come to my house to steal it cos it won’t be here and we have a huge dog that likes to eat people) and maybe I’ll actually be functional enough to post real posts instead of posts that say “sorry for not posting”.

For now, check out the blogs I love links below for some great blogs with great posts. (and I see a theme of people having a hard time with January, so I guess I’m not the only one who feels like they are losing their mind these days).