Just a glimpse....

The camper project is moving well, just need to recover the cushions, but that has to wait until we get back from our camping trip this weekend. But maybe I'll post a sneak peek Friday.

Until then, I thought I'd share one of my tricks to managing my life. Well, honestly my google calendar is my life blood. Now that the kids each have a smart phone and an email address, everyone has their own google calendar. They are all shared with me to our family email and I can control them all, make changes, etc as needed. In addition I keep it color coded. That's important! At a glance I can see who needs to be somewhere and when. Now, as I am paranoid with losing digital stuff, I also keep a paper calendar. You never know when something may happen to our digital world and we may be offline for a day or two. So, check this out.

As you can see, this month is pretty much over. Every person has their line as well as their color. Age order from top to bottom. Family stuff is purple so I know it involves everyone.  Thankfully TKD for the boys is the same class.  And yes, I white out the rained out activities, colored pencil doesn't erase well and I like to be able to actually look back and see what my life was like.  So yeah....crazy life. Did anyone doubt me?

I  just noticed that I have no times on there.  Fun fun.....that's because things like TKD are always at the same time (5:30pm on Monday, 4:45pm on Thursday), Gymnastics is always 4:30pm Tues, Thurs and 8:00am on Saturday.  Cello lessons are always 3:15.  Strategy Games and Academic Trivia Team are after school activities so are pickup at 3:30.   Produce basket is always 4:45pm.  So some of my life is permanently rooted in my brain...until gymnastics summer schedule kicks in and we move to a new TKD class...

Long time no see......

It's been forever it seems since we were on here. I'll try to get some posts out and be a bit more regular. Life is crazy, organized yet not, super busy with three dogs, three kids, and three jobs between the two adults in the family.

I'll toss out a quick update here. We retired from flyball in the Spring of 2012. Cassie was showing signs of struggling at 12 years old, Marvin's body had started to break down, and Silk, well Silk only ever played because we asked him to. Don't get me wrong, he loved the sport but at the same time, he's more than happy to be a home body. In addition, we acquired a new dog, Velvet,

who was at the time 13 months old and CRAZY. She was in no way going to be trainable for flyball easily, and with three kids now all in different sports and school activities, as well as gas prices climbing steadily, we decided it was time for retirement. So, as life goes on.....it seems that Cassie's signs of "age" were actually signs of a brain tumor and we lost her suddenly in October of 2012. Marvin and Silk are still going strong at 12 & 10 years old, and Velvet is now three and still crazy.

The kids, well Sam is now 11, in sixth grade and doing well. He plays cello, is currently a purple (soon to be blue) belt in TKD. Daniel and Kyleigh are eight, almost 9 (where does the time go?). Daniel plays baseball and really enjoys it, he also is a purple (almost blue) belt in TKD. Kyleigh is my crazy busy one, she's a gymnast, going into level 4 this summer so lots of practice there, and she plays softball. Plus add school activities, etc and work....yeah my life is crazy busy. But somehow I keep up.

As I'm always onto one project or another....we just finished a bathroom remodel last month. Kyleigh was a huge helper and loved learning how to do all of that stuff.

And my current project is a complete camper remodel. The camper is now eight years old and needed to be cleaned up, etc. As the finances are not there for a new camper, I did some research and found ideas to spruce our old one up. So...stay connected and I'll show you what I did when it is finished.