What a week (or so) this has been!

We have been CRAZY busy lately. It is really no fun at all. Both Brett and I are extremely busy with work. Every day is a struggle to try to decide who has time to watch Kyler in the evenings after day care. Then that person will be further behind for work or will have to stay up late working.

Beyond that, we are working to get our house on the market. We finally got our kitchen done. I'll post some "after" pictures when I get it all cleaned up and put back together tomorrow. Now we are working on some last minute things like staining/painting trim and putting some things back together. We still have a lot of cleaning to do - mainly the garage. All of this is very difficult to get done since someone has to watch Kyler at all times. He is down to taking one nap some days and when he is up, you can't take your eye off him or he will be opening drawers or cruising toward an outlet or the stairs. Plus, when there are small construction projects going on around the house there aren't many baby proof areas. And on top of that, I have had to work most Saturdays.

So to help ease our stress, we enrolled Kyler into full time day care. Now I have been working on one of my days "off" and cleaning/working on the house the other day. This weekend we even had to ship Kyler off to a babysitter on Saturday. We were feeling like neglectful parents after not really seeing him for 6 days straight. The good thing is that he loves it and our crazy busy time should be coming to an end in the next week or so.

Yesterday things got even worse. I was on my way to work and as I was waiting on a light to get on the interstate I looked down and saw that traffic was pretty much at a stand still. They are doing road work and had all but one lane closed. So I had to sit in traffic even on a Saturday. (I had to heading home from work at 9:30 pm on a Friday night as well.) As I am sitting in traffic, I see a cop behind me with his lights on. He was pulling me over because my tags were expired "back in March" (a.k.a 48 hours ago). Turns out this is a misdemeanor charge and I have to go to court. All because we are too busy to even realize we needed to pay auto tags and taxes. Ugh!

Luckily, my personality is such that I can pretty much laugh it off and let the stress roll off my shoulders at times. Tonight we needed a couple of supplies but waited too long and everything but the dreaded Wal-Marts was closed. We decided to go there (we NEVER shop there). I feel like we were warned, it started lightning and sprinkling as we went in, we got there and they didn't even have 3/4 of what we needed, and then we heard it hailing as we were inside (while both our vehicles were sitting outdoors). We decided to put back the one thing they did have and buy it elsewhere in the morning. That should tell you how much we don't like to support Wal-Mart. :)