Juggling

I feel like all of the sudden my life has been completey thrown off course. The last two weeks have been filled with getting Katey ready for 4k (which is not simple) and then getting all set up with her soccer team (which has been simple and fun), but add in working full time and trying to have a clean house, clean laundry, clean kids, and make sure everyone is fed and content-it is craziness! And the crazy part is that this is JUST the beginning...life is going to get SO.MUCH.BUSIER. It sort of panics me. I feel overwhelmed. I feel selfish too because I haven't been able to keep up with my running like I want to, and that has been annoying me because ultimately running is what helps me KEEP my sanity! It is like a wild carnival ride...the more I need to do, the less time I have, the more I want to do...you get my point?

So this update is going to be short but sweet and a few pictures to make everyone smile.

Katey is adjusting to 4k. She is emotional and sad, but she will be okay. Her teachers note yesterday said "A little sad getting off the bus, but so strong!". Katey gave us a small tidbits about her day that make me know that she will be okay...kids names, what she had for lunch, things like that. What I can't wrap my head around and makes my stomach in knots is this: When I help her on the bus and watch it pull away it stresses me out that she is riding a large vehicle to a school where I have no idea what she is doing, who she is talking to or how things are going for the next 3 hours. If this bothers me...what the hell does it do to her?

But we will keep putting on our smiling faces day and night and tell her how great 4k is and how much fun she will have. This too will pass (right?).

Makenna continues to do great-talking a blue streak and loves to "run fast" in the yard and overall just does anything and everything Katey wants to do.

Soccer started and Katey is doing good...she looks so grown up in her little uniform and shin guards! I found myself turning into a crazy person on the sidelines-4 years have NO clue how to play soccer!