School

My heart is breaking for my little fourth grader to be all grown up this year in fifth grade. Been through this phase once before, doesn't make it any easier. Fortunately, coming out on the other end a caring, responsible leader makes everything worth it. So hard to see when you're in the midst.

Grrr

Created jet lag by forcing myself to stay up later than I wanted last night then sleeping in too late today! Sigh. Waking up early tomorrow will take care of it but leads to an exhausting day. Hmmm.

Quiet Cali

Strange being home and not posting a thing on Facebook about it. Strangely quiet and relaxing. Accidentally allowed an fb post that calls me out being here but don't think it will show up in many new feeds. Not seeing my sister that's closest in age this time around which with her five kids is sometimes a whirlwind. Not from me not telling her but from our crazy schedule. I'm slightly sad but, get this, they've been dealing with the lice issue so I'm happy to not be worried about it again even on a small scale.

Will see my brother tomorrow at my nephews birthday party. He asked about me being in Cali when I posted Cali pics from May a few weeks ago.

I seriously think I'm avoiding posting anything because I don't want all the guilt of not being able to see everybody once again. There is not ever enough time to see friends and barely enough time to see and spend quality time with family, plus take the trips that we can only take out here.

Heck Brandon and I haven't even had time to go off on our own these last few trips although we desperately need it.

Any ways. Strange, quiet feeling. Unfortunately I still have that underlying guilt - although now its because I just haven't told people we're here instead of not being able to fit in the schedule to see them.

Law of Attraction

Nowhere else but on a plane can you notice the law of attraction regardless of sex more - where people sit themselves by like looking, no doubt assuming like minded, people.

Life has been SO busy!!

So many good things. Time for an Allison bullet post?

*Deleted Facebook off my phone. LOVE. Thanks to motivation by Cecilia whose inspiring email I still need to take a moment to dig deep enough to reply to. I do wish there was an only me Facebook I could still check into and record moments on without the distraction of shallowly surfing other people's lives.

*Packing!!!! Wheeeee!!!!!! Okay actually I'm NOT packing but I'm supposed to be and I'm positive I'll be up the wee hours the night before ironing everything like I religiously do before a trip because it feels sooooo good to feel like I walked out of a store with a just purchased outfit on.

*My oldest baby!!! Volunteering at his youth group camp because he prioritized other camps and didn't want to use any of his money or sponsorships towards this camp yet he still finds a way to go. According to him, he's having more fun than if he was part of camp - no schedule, canoeing, swimming, team games, hanging with his cousin and aunt who are also volunteering. His aunt being the reason he gets this awesome opportunity to volunteer in the first place. So excited for him and happy to adjust our trip time so he can be there as he suggested so we could still do both and not have to cancel the trip.

*Shawners first sleepover!!! At his friends eleventh birthday party. They all trekked to Schlitterbahn for the day then stayed up til 1:30 yapping and woke up to cinnamon rolls and playing minecraft with three of his closest friends, Konnor, Cale, and Grason. Sounds like a perfect eleven year old birthday party to me.

*Brando. Oh Brando. So much stress. I am crossing fingers this vacay is good for him but also incredibly nervous. He had one person hand in their two weeks cause they couldn't handle the sales environment and hired on a new person he's still figuring out how to work with. Crossing fingers he gets a new person who's interested in the job who is nothing but positive and has positive effects!

*Me. Trying to distract myself in every way possible from packing. Including blogging apparently :) . Simultaneously scheduling three different trips and several different trips within those trips, meanwhile organizing the rob*tics team for the year and cultivating volunteers for both rob*tics and a whole slew of volunteer photograh*rs for yearbook this year. THAT one leaves me super nervous. Fortunately, as chair I already have someone signed on as organizer who should get back from vacay as soon as I leave, ha, and a photographer for every grade level except kindergarten. Crossing fingers we get the kindergarten grade photographer next week during kinder camp.

So that's life!! A part of it any way. So excited for the upcoming months!!

Yay

For this PMS not being quite so bad. It still hit pretty hard PMS wise but only the night before and once during. And bleeding is back to normal.