No posts?? Here's why...

Wow, long time no post!

Life has just been sooooo incredibly busy! Dylan & Ryan are both in Cub Scouts now with many scouting events going on as well as popcorn sales, all 3 boys are about to start karate and Dylan is preparing to audition for a role in OSU's theater production of Galileo. (Which I'm not expecting him to get since this is his first time to do such an audition, but the experience will be good for him!)
Grannie is doing fairly well, but this time of year starts our round of check ups for all her past health issues.

Daytimes are booked with work, dr. appts, cleaning or school events. Evenings with work, cleaning, scouting, or other kids events. Weekends with working, Grannie's shopping, scouting and cleaning. Honestly 10-15 min spans between events....

I must say filling the role as Mom has always been my dream. Now the 70+ hours of work with my job along with parenting each week and another 14+ hours of cleaning up from work was a little more than I planned for. Seems I've gotten myself stuck in a rut of over-booked-ness that I can't seem to get out of. Where I used to maybe once or twice a year feel stretched to breaking point this year has been far more often to the point of an almost weekly break down as I just sit and wait for myself to actually snap. I once heard someone describe a rut as being a "grave with the ends dug out" - kinda how I'm starting to feel.

I've started randomly planning nights away for myself to stay in a hotel with no begging or screaming children, no toys to trip over, no cleaning! Usually I turn my phone on silent so I can spend my quiet responsibility-less time watching movies and sleeping! Sadly those free nights are getting fewer and the last couple of free nights I've had I made other plans then they were wiped out on such short notice that I missed my de-stress time - leading to more stress. Now I'm looking at 3 months before my next chance at some free time fun....so I'm irritable to say the least.

I fully understand how much complaining I'm doing here and how shallow it all sounds - as it is, I know... Sometimes though a person can only bare so much responsibility for everyone else for so long before they need to start caring for themselves once in while and need moments of not being needed for anything.

So there, that would be the reason for delayed posting. Sorry for the rant....

Kitty Update:

Bubblegum made it home. She is a cute little kitten who is mean as can be. She thinks her job in life is to eat people. We had her declawed in the front to prevent the injuries she was causing, but she still has back claws and teeth... :/ She sleeps very little, eats a LOT and is always ready to attack! She is very full of personality!