trudging along

this week started off kind of up in the air with the news on our house being sold (our downstairs neighbor is currently working with the landlord to possibly buy the house before foreclosure on tuesday???), then it turned to awesome with the arrival of my birthday camera & new phone, but has slowly been getting harder and harder to trudge through as we reach the end

the sucky:

i'm going on day 2 without my mini-van......that has to b the hardest thing - being responsible for the daily activities of myself & 3 rugrats - WITHOUT a vehicle! ugh!

i dropped it off for a tune-up & needed to find out why the check engine light is on & why our back driver's side brake light isn't working, even after replacing the bulb.....they started work yesterday, but won't finish up until today.....thankfully, my mom has been helping me deliver the kids in the morning & then bring me to/from work (another nice thing about working with my ma)

then yesterday, the girls' daycare provider called out sick - pink eye false alarm that thankfully turned out to be dry eye syndrome caused by contacts??? so i had to scramble for a back-up plan for the them yesterday

running on little sleep today & probably pulling an all-nighter tonight....it's a VERY busy week for cakes, including a wedding tomorrow afternoon - making the wedding & groom's cake for this one.

at this point, i really can't see there being enough hours in the next 2 days for me to finish everything i need to do - but with God's help, i always find a way somehow....and hey, i work better under pressure ;0)

on the flip side:

i am LOVING my new phone & camera! still no time to sit down & read up on/play with either of them - but i'm using them both blindly....& so far, so great! :0)

and jaden's 2nd jiu-jitsu class went AWESOME last night.....curtis took him, so i missed it, but i hear that the sensei (and some other parents watching with curtis on the other side of the glass) are VERY impressed with how quickly jaden is picking everything up.....they did more work with the upper body this time (instead of the ground work & grappling they concentrated on monday)....he has that knack at being able to watch you draw/motion/act out something & then he can repeat it exactly & almost immediately - i have a feeling that as long as he enjoys it, he's going to go really far with this martial arts thing

and, who could dwell on the sucky stuff, when u have these smiley faces to look at every morning

*note about jaden's outfit - it's pool day at daycare, so he wears his trunks to summer school (then straight to daycare)....and the shirt is 1 of 2 that an older girl at daycare (maybe 11 or 12?) gave to jaden....they have dragons on them & she knew he'd LOVE em! i'm really starting to dig the fact that the kids insist on picking out their own clothes every day - i'm all about personal style & self expression! :0)