this week

this week has been yet another whirlwind of a week. complete with more wedding stuff but ended last week, celebrating with my friend sarah and her new hubby in eureka springs....laila and my friend's little boy W, had a great time but it was a loooong road trip, it was fun and I wasn't totally whipped when we rolled in on sunday which has likely be part of the trouble!!! because all week I have been wiped! I have slept through each and every morning run. i have been worn slap out! yesterday was long and hard as I had two students following me from ole miss and another high school student shadowing me....but that wasn't the hard part. when they were gone i got word from my mom that she had appointment set up with neurosurgeon for consult regarding her back....which also isn't rough part....but with that i realized in order to make eveyrthing happen, i needed to call this bridal place and ax my follow up dress fitting for my sis in law's bride's maid dres....thinking that this would be easy enough, i rang them up real quick and much to my dismay..it wasn't easy, it was dreadful.....i will spare you the details, but i hate when you talk to someone and even though you are paying them well for their services, they seem to act like the rules or those similar to thou shalt not KILL, etc....and will not work iwth you!!!!!! UGH!! finally they agreed to free my dress without a court order to me the day beofre the said fitting and that way I can make the most of my time away from work and take care of all of my stuff while i am in tupelo and not spend countless more time on the road. then that solved and venting was done....dress solved and on to choir supper and the night....well i hopped out of my car at daycare to pick up priss and turn car off, which i never do but with gas so high and I was gong to change clothes myself as well as laila's for choir...i did...grab my bag and in the stall we go, i get my pants off and dig into the bag to discover my running clothes are in a DIFFERENT bag in the car and I cannot change! great,... but no big deal i wil change at choir when i drop her off.....get her changed and out the door. only for my car to not crank~!!!!!!!!!!! Major fail of a day. finally get husband on the phone and he calls a friend who is close by and he runs over to check it out. battery cable just loose, get me back on the road. over to the sonic i grab laila supper and still plan to shoot for choir...only for the reality that we always have time to kill between choir and school and I cannot turn my car off.....so I phone up choir teacher to see if we need to go and just be late...cause we must get home and let dear old husband fix the car! so I make the call...choir...cancelled... get home, to clean up the chocolate milk shake that laila spilled coming up the driveway and finally get to cleaning up etc....everyday stuff....we cook supper(meaning i get things together and justin cooks fish for us) and finally bath priss and get her almost ready to get in bed...after a little dora dose...and loawering myself into the bathtub husband says to me.....hey i think that W,a 'friend' is going to spend the night tomrorow night and go fishing iwht me on friday!!!! REALLY cause I was going to take a bath and watch grey's anatomy from LAST WEEK but now it appears I am going to clean the livign area of the house and get the two loads of clothes off of the extra bedroom bed!!!!!! Joy! I mean I love my life, and I love great events that we share with those closest to it....but there are so many great things happening that i am just a little o.v.e.r.w.h.e.l.m.e.d!!!!! but I guess that just means that i am overly blessed!!! Yesterday it was just a little harder to feel all the love... you ever have those days? on a positive note....laila's month long, crying for momma saga appears to have come to an end ...tuesday wednesday and today....NO crying when I left her. Actually this morning....I didn't even get a hug...isn't that strange! Oh well, I will take it and be ecstatic in it!!!!! Jennifer

where oh where does the time go?

It seems as though all I post lately or EVER for that matter are catching up and then promises to catch up photos, etc. And I can't seem to get above water these days with blogging. I am good at lots, but not so great about blogging. Maybe if I got up at 4 AM when all was quiet and got online and posted...that would work....but all I can manage at 4 is to text my running buds, wait for anyone to reply so I am then accountable to get up and get dress and go running! I certainly don't see me getting up one second earlier and the days are already full and I go to bed with things left updone often, you know in order to get up..exercise...regain a little sanity and then get ready for the day.

I am certainly not complaining. I love my life. I don't always open-armed embrace the challenges and changes, but I love my life. I might enjoy like having a whole weekday off every now and then or hey, even weekly, but in reality that won't come until my child is grown and in college or soemthing like that! So for now, I just go with the flow, enjoy the moments and make promises about posting about it!

so what is going on now?

Weddings, weddings, oh yea, weddings, and then there are babies, babies, babies all around!

Some health scares with my daddy have had me all up in a tither for a while, but everything, THANK THE LORD, is checking out to be minor bumps and easy fixes....so please pray this is how they continue to be as we get more and more test results back and continue to thank God yourselves daily of just how he blesses you! I know I sure do!

Back to weddings....

So my great friend SH from Jackson is getting hitched and is doing it in the fast..oh I bet there is a baby kind of way....but she isn't with child....like the rest of my friends are it seems, but rather finally met him, they knew...and fast forward to me trying to keep up and catch up with her! And I will...a mere 7 hours from home at her wedding April 9th! Whew! SO excited for her and can't believe it is finally happening...so no matter the trip..not missing this one for anything on earth!

Then my baby sis-in-law is getting married on May 14th and there is SOOO much going on with that. Bachelorette party in Nashville this weekend, Lingerie shower at my house on april fools....or is it? JK...then church shower

then baby shower for our friends in Columbus but who are Cajun to the bone in mid-april...and what a joy it is to celebrate this precious baby's arrival!!

And somewhere in the mix, my newest nephew is going to make his arrival, mr Jack....something...A...and at the rate he is growing...well, he is in a hurry I am afraid, so it is a anytime game with this little man...

all the while...I am now on the mission to learn how to make a tutu flower girl dress, just in case, aunt jes decides to have a baby....and that has my feathers up in a tizz but I found a great site today with pics and I reserve the right to have fits, cry, and then ask for help if I can't do it alone....see I am NOT the creative one in any area I circulate...unless we like compare me to my husband and I think he might just me more creative than me! I am gene-less in that department!

not to mention it is supposed to look like this....sure hope Aunt jes is able to pull this one out for us!!!!!

and as I could seriously go on forever about all the joyful events that are upcoming and how the frequency adds a little stress...how can joyful such occassions make you sad or bring you down?

OR this for that matter?????

Laila loves to play dress up, and often times this just means...'summer clothes' which is fine and dandy when it isn't 12 degrees outside and she insists on wearing it to town or every other event....but especially interesting since she thinks that it is a great idea to wear last year's summer attire...and let's just say...it isn't one of those years were late summer's clothes will 'FIT' for this spring's wardrobe...she has grown fast and LOTS of it...no longer a baby...she is just a full out..KIDDO!

Anyway, hope you are all well and happy!