{"id":343,"date":"2007-03-07T12:43:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T17:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=343"},"modified":"2007-03-07T12:43:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T17:43:51","slug":"Recovering from a busy weekend!","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Recovering from a busy weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew!&nbsp; This early part of the week has been spent recovering from an overwhlemingly busy weekend.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s the recap:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early doctor&#8217;s visit with Josiah downtown at Children&#8217;s &#8211; all&#8217;s well, no problems with his urinary reflux, and he continues to do well.&nbsp; We hope maybe at the next visit in August we&#8217;ll find he&#8217;s outgrowing the problem.<\/li>\n<li>Consignment sales have started!&nbsp; We found some deals &#8211; yeah!<\/li>\n<li>Dinner with Brian&#8217;s parents and his aunt and uncle from Nashville<\/li>\n<li>Scrapbooking!&nbsp; My dear sweet husband took care of the kiddos while I escaped for a few hours to scrapbook with friends from church.&nbsp; Yeah!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early bike ride for Brian, while Analise, Josiah and I started getting ready for a what we thought would be a small gathering (8 people, 6 kids) of his cycling team for a pasta dinner. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Somewhere in the day, I move 4 loads of laundry though the wash and dryer, but no time to fold&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Afternoon &#8211; we find out that 12 or so people and 8 kids would be coming for dinner.&nbsp; Scramble to plan more food and quick get a babysitter to help out.<\/li>\n<li>Evening &#8211; a great evening with Brian&#8217;s cycling team&#8230; 14 people, 6 kids, 4 jars of spaghetti sauce, 3 lbs of ground turkey, 3 loaves of bread, double batch of my favorite hot spinach artichoke dip, 2 bags of salad, one delectable chocolate bundt cake.&nbsp; After everyone leaves, the dining area (i.e., front living room and dining room) and kitchen look like a tornado has hit.&nbsp; But it was fun!&nbsp; To bed without worrying too much about the mess because we&#8217;ve got a super-busy Sunday&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian has a bike race, so I get the kiddos and I out the door to church.&nbsp; Materials for my Sunday School lesson aren&#8217;t available which is frustrating.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>After church I&#8217;m supposed to go to a children&#8217;s ministry meeting, but I&#8217;m overwhelmed with the kids and starved because I couldn&#8217;t mange to get myself enough to eat in the busy-ness of getting us all to church on time, so I sneak out to the usual lunch with Brian&#8217;s parents. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>At his bike race, Brian gets 4th&#8230; A bit disappointed because he thinks he could have won the race.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll share the details. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastefullysimple.com\/web\/ktoone\" target=\"_blank\">Tastefully Simple<\/a> party (the first one not hosted by me!) to do, so I spend the afternoon getting things ready in my already-messy kitchen. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Brian relieves the fill-in babysitters (ie, his parents) at does a wonderful job on his own with the kiddos until I get back.&nbsp; What a pleasant surprise&#8230; both little ones are in bed!&nbsp; Good job, Brian!<\/li>\n<li>The party went GREAT!&nbsp; I had fun, the hostess was great to work with and we got quite a few orders.&nbsp; Yeah!&nbsp; I&#8217;m in business!<\/li>\n<li>Collapse into bed exhausted after the weekend, ignoring the 2 baskets overflowing with clean clothes in my room and the kitchen disaster area.<\/li>\n<li>(The link above is my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastefullysimple.com\/web\/ktoone\" target=\"_blank\">Tastefully Simple website<\/a>!&nbsp; Anyone can order through it, and your order will ship directly to you.&nbsp; How convenient!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whip up some Tastefully Simple snacks for a Women&#8217;s missions meeting at Brian&#8217;s parents church.&nbsp; (New spring\/summer items, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastefullysimple.com\/Cultures\/en-US\/Products\/KeyLimeCheeseBallMix267107.htm?CatalogNavigationBreadCrumbs=ClientCatalog;Desserts&amp;ShowTop=true\" target=\"_blank\">Key Lime Cheese Ball<\/a> and a Dried Tomato and Garlic Chicken cheese ball with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastefullysimple.com\/Cultures\/en-US\/Products\/DriedTomatoGarlicPestoMix209107.htm?CatalogNavigationBreadCrumbs=ClientCatalog;DipMixesSpicesSalsas&amp;ShowTop=true\" target=\"_blank\">pesto mix<\/a>).&nbsp; The kitchen gets worse&#8230;&nbsp; But everyone loves the treats, and we take the leftovers to Brian&#8217;s office.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, we&#8217;re home, and the kitchen is un-ignorable:)&nbsp; I get it mostly cleaned up, but thank goodness for Moe&#8217;s Southwest Grill and their Kids-Eat-Free Monday deal (Brian gets a huge burrito, and I share Analise&#8217;s huge kid-sized burrito.&nbsp; With extra queso sauce, we can eat for $10!)! &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The laundry is now taking over the couch in the den&#8230; good thing we have a sectional sofa with 11 feet of space!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally!&nbsp; A day to catch up!&nbsp; Nowhere to go, except school for Analise.&nbsp; Josiah naps all morning and I start to get CAUGHT UP.<\/li>\n<li>I get all my TS orders placed, and the party wrapped up.&nbsp; Yeah!&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>The rest of the house is nearly back in order after the busy weekend, I&#8217;m sure only to unravel as this week comes to and end with another busy weekend! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;We&#8217;re going to Knoxville on Friday\/Saturday for a bike race, coming back to be in charge of the nursery on Sunday morning, leaving church quick for Brian&#8217;s Sunday bike race, coming home to host a home church meeting at 7pm.&nbsp; 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