My life is "mostly" back to normal

I know that I disappeared again from the "World of Blogs" but this time it was due to a true lack of time and severe stress. :0) I know that all you "supermom's" who keep up with your blogs on a regular basis wonder what could possibly have kept me from blogging? It was a surprise 60th birthday party for my mom. I started planning it a week or two after my last post and the actual party was not until May 31st. I know that it sounds like I had plenty of time for some extra curricular activities (like blogging) but since I am a perfectionist and wanted to make this extra special I took on a few extra projects.


First, I hand-made all of the invitations with a picture of my mom in her 20's. Let me clarify that....Jonathan (my brother) created the invitations on the computer, then I printed them out and cut them and backed them with paper. Next I had wanted to get video of friends telling mom what they loved about her. I was really stressed about how I was going to get all the videos in time to put something together. I am not a video person like the Curry's or the Watkin's and the whole idea of the video made my heart beat faster. So a kind friend suggested that I do something more on my level like scrapbooking..... I took her advice and then requested letters from every friend that I knew my mom has ever had. I picked out a scrapbook and a color scheme and started making scrapbook pages. I think that I ended up with about 25 letters. This is what ate almost every waking minute of my life through the entire month of May. I worked on it during nap time's and every night until at least 11:00. (It was all worth it, mom!)


Jonathan and I also wanted to use pictures from throughout my mom's lifetime to make a picture video. He wanted to work on that, but since he is in North Carolina that meant that I had to collect all the pictures. That in itself was a huge project. Any time that we went down to my mom's for Sunday dinner I would try to get her to take a walk with the kids and the dog by herself, stick Aaron on "window watch" and I would run back to search through the pictures and "steal" as many of them as I could. Usually the walks would last all of about 10 minutes. Needless to say, I think that it took me 3-4 trips to actually confiscate all of the pictures that I wanted. By the time I actually got them all it was too late to send them to Jonathan. He and Val were coming at the end of May so they created the video after they got here.


In the middle of all this was my mom's actual birthday, Nathan's birthday, Lexy's ballet recital and many rehearsals, Jonathan and Val arrived, Julia came home from her mission and we had friends come into town. Oh yeah......and to top it all off I was called as the new Relief Society president. I still have to chuckle at that one and think half to myself and half to heaven "are you serious?" - seeing as how I have spent the last 15 years in Primary with about 4 months as a teacher in R.S., and a couple more as the enrichment leader (while teaching primary).


Anyway, these are all of my excuses for not blogging since the beginning of April. I hope that I can get back to blogging on a more regular basis now. Thanks for all of your understanding. :0)

P.S. I will post pictures of the party - which was a huge success, by the way - after I get all of the other posts done that need to come first.