With Everything On My Plate, Why Am I Not Hungry?

I have a LOT going on in the next few weeks: Easter egg dying, student birthday party, Easter egg hunt, Easter traveling (which means Easter packing), hair appointment, nephews birthday, grandma's birthday, personal day in Kansas City (which means planning for personal day, and personal day packing) Mother's Day weekend plans (which means MORE packing) Elementary School Field Day Fiascos, district fiascos in general, music concert practice, music concert, class play, class awards and assembly, field trip, last day of school, packing my classroom for the move...

With all that going on - and more will be added I'm sure- I feel restless and almost bored. Yes, there's tons of stress going on in my life right now. I have many things I'm worried about, most of which I can't share with you quite yet. No, I'm not completely caught up on my work and organized for what's going to happen. I feel more and more behind everyday.

With everything going on, why am I feeling so gosh darn blah?

I try not to use my blog as a venting tool, and I usually focus on the positives in life, and I'm sorry that this post is teetering on the negative side of things. Please don't disregard my blog, I'm sure I'll be much more Resplendent :) mood next time.

On a happier-more fun-note, I have a new poll at the top of my page so please vote for your favorite part of Easter.

Results from the last poll: 5 people chose Thunderstorms as their favorite part of Spring and 1 person chose blooming flowers.

New Design, New Poll

It's Spring, and along with the cleaning comes the rearranging. I rearranged my blog and tried to make it feel cleaner and more Spring-like. I added a weekly poll at the top of the page. So be sure to vote for your favorite thing about Spring!

Here to Receive The World's Best Aunt Award... ME!

To be honest, I wasn't exactly looking forward to babysitting my nephew this weekend.  It's my sister and her husband's 5th anniversary and they're celebrating with a weekend away and they asked me to watch their 4 year old son Quinlin.

I left right after school and made it to Kinsley a little after 5 just in time to get some instructions and let the parents head out the door for a massage. It was a good trial run and we had fun playing soccer outside and when mom and dad got home we ate pizza and watched some TV together.

This morning, mom and dad left and now it's Q and I until tomorrow afternoon. Today I spent the day walking up and down the alley while he rode his four-wheeler making about every single dog in Kinsley bark for about 30 minutes. We then rode our bikes around the block (because we didn't wan't to get lost) before heading to the park. We found the park pretty much by luck and Q had a great time playing with preschool classmate Casen (rhymes with Jason and a very cool name) before we had to make a quick trip home to bandage a bleeding wound. We patched it up and then went back to the park and played with a cute little fellow by the name of Sam.

My favorite part of the evening was getting ready for dinner. I had plans to make chicken & rice casserole, but Q wasn't too sure about it. Chicken looks and tastes like snakes and rice looks like baby worms. Appetizing, right? Fortunately he changed his mind and decided that it "actually tastes good!" In fact his direct quote was, "The next time you come here you have to make this."Basically I scored the Best Aunt of the Year Award.

Bed time was smooth sailing. After an ice cream cone and an obscene amount toothpaste he went to bed by 8:30 and he's completely conked out right now. I'm glad he's worn out, I'm hoping it means I won't have to wake up at 7 tomorrow morning.