Highs and Lows

I feel like I've been a little MIA on the blog lately.  Life has been REALLY busy these days.  I feel like I'm constantly engaged in a juggling act that leaves me dropping balls left and right.  It's not a fun feeling!  This week has been slightly slower than last week, but there's still enough going on to keep us on the go.  For tonight's post, I'm recording a few snippets to capture today's highs and lows.

HIGHS:

• I set a new PR this morning on the treadmill doing a 5K!  To be honest, I'm a little burned out on running.  I'm still super excited to run one last half marathon for the season next Saturday, with my sister-in-law, Kristin, but after that I plan on hanging up my running shoes for a bit.  As is often the case, in order to beat my boredom, I've made things really challenging for myself on the last couple of runs.  For today, I did speed intervals toggling back and forth between 6.5 MPH and 8.5 MPH until I hit the 3.1 mile mark.  The result?  My new fastest time.  And with an average pace of about 8:25 which is really not too shabby.  :)

• After a late night last night and a LONG day yesterday, Alex was in desperate need of some sleep.  Luckily, he didn't even fight nap time today and fell asleep for a good long stretch.  The best part was that he woke up in a great mood!  

•  Having Alex out for the count this afternoon made it possible to get all kinds of stuff done!  Such as getting dinner started in the crock pot {chicken tortilla soup for those who are wondering}, unloading and then loading the dishwasher, finishing the tidy up of the kitchen, starting a new batch of bread, and then finally having some time to read my scriptures.

• The evening finished off on a high with Jane having her very first {unofficial} Daisy troop meeting!  :)  Since we hadn't gotten the school booked as our venue for the month -- not to mention our troop isn't officially official until October 1st -- we just decided to have a "Get to Know You" fun meeting at our house instead.  Seeing Jane and all the other cute little Kindergarten girls was giving me so many flashbacks of when Grace was a Kindergartener and just entering the brave new world of Daisies.  It was such a fun experience for her, and I'm so excited for Jane to have the same opportunity. 

LOWS:

•  We never really got the Family Room tidied up in the morning, which set the stage for disaster later on when it NEEDED to be cleaned before that Daisy meeting.

• Sophie came home "sick" from school right around lunch time.  The nurse called saying that Sophie was complaining that her stomach hurt and that she was looking a little piqued.  AND, she had a temperature of 99.6.  So, I went to get her, and even though I agreed that she looked a little off, she never did throw up or have any higher of a fever, so I guess that's good for now.

• I always hate it when I lose it with the kids, but LOSE IT is what I did this evening when certain children who had the Family Room refused to get their chores done and insisted instead that they needed to do their homework.  As if!  Hahaha.  In all seriousness, it was super frustrating as I was trying to get things cleaned up before the meeting, PLUS get everyone fed dinner a little bit earlier than usual, and ALSO finish getting all the paperwork and other things ready to give to parents at the meeting.  Thankfully, Scott got home just in time to help with the finishing touches and to keep the other ones out of the way while our meeting was in progress.

• And now -- it's the end of the day, I'm dead tired and realizing that I never did get any loads of laundry done and I'm pretty sure that half the kids are out of clean clothes.  Oh well!  Tomorrow is always another day, right??

Here's to hoping that my juggling act will go a little smoother tomorrow!  Thank you and goodnight.   :)