real life wednesday

maybe {real life wednesday} will become a weekly thing here on this new blog of mine...hmm.

anyways, here it goes.  seems to me that i already feel behind the minute i wake up.  does anyone else out there suffer from this, it must be some kind of momma condition or something.  i go to bed thinking of things that i didn't get done today and will need to try to get done the next day, only to lay right back down in bed that very next evening with another list of many things i didn't do in addition to the other things that i didn't do from the day before.  really, is this how it's going to be from here on out?

i have these ideas of how i'd like the day to go, and before you know it it's 2:45 in the afternoon, the school bell is ringing, we wizz home to do homework, maybe a bit of cleaning, dinner prep going on, i'm sure i need to unload the dishwasher again, etc, etc, etc...

often times i have so many things on my "to do" list that i end up not doing any of those things, but find other things to do.  anyone else do that?  i'm sure there some kind of term for that, maybe i'll look into what that is called.  well, i have been able to get a few things done that i wanted/needed to do.  i also enjoyed putting the "to do" list aside yesterday afternoon and putting this Christmas lights on the tree, so that tonight we can hopefully decorate it as a family after dinner.  the kids wanted to decorate last night, but my husband couldn't get home in time.  he usually does the lights, so i thought that i'd surprise him and do them myself.  i really didn't do as good of a job as he does, but it still looks pretty and i loved to see all four kids reactions.  the boys were able to help and when the girls woke up from their naps they were happily surprised.  so, tonight we decorate the tree.  before that i'm going to attempt to make a huge bow for the top of the tree, hello youtube!  the three older kids are going to make an ornament while dinner to cooking.  i'm getting excited just thinking about the rest of the afternoon.

i'm not sure if this post qualifies as anything other than a bunch of ramblings, but i guess it feels good to write this stuff down sometimes.  and really, i'd love to hear from any of you readers out there who feel the same way or have something funny to tell me about your week.  sometimes a girl just needs to laugh!

and who knows, maybe there will be a few pictures to follow this post tomorrow!