Have you ever gotten to the end of a week and thought - "Did I just spin my wheels all week?" I'm worn out and can't see where I have gotten anything done! Things have been crazy in our life the last couple of weeks and I keep thinking that things will slow down and we can get back in some sort of routine somehow...I'm accepting the fact that this crazy pace is our routine! Next week we start flag football, I just told the boys yesterday that I wish they would take piano (just for alittle while) just so that they could have a little exposure to it...and then they both want to take tennis lessons. Of course, Upward Basketball starts at Madison Street Baptist Church in a few weeks and then there is always homeschool and our homeschool co-op group and the jui jitsu that we are already involved in - in Orange Park! Did I mention that we are doing all of this while Chad and I also have our responsibilities?

Does this sound familiar? Are you as frazzled as I am sometimes? We have always said that we would not do the "taxi service" kind of thing and that we would limit the things that the kids are involved in so that we were not running around everywhere and never being a family...that's the point we are at now - limiting - we told the kids as we were having these conversations, that we were going to have to make some choices...We just cannot, or more importantly WILL NOT, do it all! We have got to save time to be a family, to guard our Cheerios Moments I blogged about before and to still have time for fishing, legos or football in the front yard... I think today I'm going to sit and draw cheerios on our calendar - nothing is more important!

Michele Everson
Proud Wife of Pastor Chad Everson and
Proud Mom of two wonderful boys!