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Bad Blogger! And here's why:

It's a good thing the rest of my life isn't tended to as poorly as this blog! Life's just been busy and kind of frenetic. I'm one of those people who likes a lot of order in her life so when something comes along and shakes things up a bit, I'm like an ant who can't find her way back home because a little crumb has fallen into her path. Oy...Anyway, I'm feeling like I'm starting to get a little control of things and all because I got my filing system back in order. YAY ME!!! I hadn't cleaned out my filing cabinet in yeeeeeears and it took days and days to finally get things sorted, organized, shredded and back in tip-top shape. I do the majority of my real estate work out of my home so the paper work was piling up all around me and it was driving me nuts!

So we are head-deep into soccer season and while i love the sport and love that my kids enjoy playing it, I sometimes resent that it completely takes over my life for half of the year. Practices started in July and we don't play our last game until the weekend before Thanksgiving. If they've had a good season, it might extend into December. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I drop the Natester off at his field by 5:15 then run Christian to his field from there. Christian's field is at the opposite end of town and in the middle of a closed military base which means there is absolutely NOTHING out there to do but sit. I'm not good at doing nothing when there's so many something's needing my attention. Siiigh. Saturday we have games. This morning Natie's is about an hour west of us and Christian's is an hour east of us.

To add to the fun, Monday consists of guitar practice followed by band practice; Wednesday is more band practice which leaves Friday as the only night that we aren't running around like chickens with our heads cut off. I know this is just a season of life and I remind myself that one day--when they're gone and living their own lives-- I will long for these sweet days when my boys were all mine and life was all about them. Life is good.

So yeah...when I'm not doing that I'm building up my business (which is going well thanks to an AWESOME partner and team!), heading the women's ministry in my church and putting together a women's retreat for November. Oh yeah... and I clean and do laundry and make 7 course dinners while knitting socks for the retirement center I visit weekly. Ok that last part wasn't true. hehe...

In other news...the extreme makeover we started on the house is nearing completion! Rocket Man has done an amazing job! To date he has replaced all the fascia on the front of the house, taken out 4 windows in 2 different walls, rebuilt the walls (headers and all) and installed 1 very large windows in each. He replaced the front double-doors, put up new siding and installed new rain-gutters. The new garage door comes on Tuesday. And that leads us to my part in all this. Choosing the paint colors. My problem is that my roof is black and gray and I don't want a gray house. I want a taupe house. With white trim. Sooo...we've got 3 different colors on the house and none of them are wowing me and it's just so much pressure realizing that no matter how much work he put into making my house cute, I could TOTALLY blow it on the paint color and make my house look really really ugly. yeah...no pressure. hehe...

So there. That's my excuse for being a bad blogger. Please keep the violin music down and if you're going to bring cheese...make it gouda. Smoked.