Crazy Summer!

Seriously, almost August? Really?! Why can't winter months go this fast? Its half over and feels like it just started....but its been fun and not so fun.
I've managed to go to Vegas and get married, have a kick ass wedding reception which sucked ass to plan, exchange old for the new items with SO many wedding gifts TOOK ME WEEKS to put away and get off the floor, paint my living room, paint and redecorate my bedroom completely, had a overwhelming number of birthday parties to attend,

 had many playdates for C and myself AKA adult cocktail hours

organized a neighborhood rummage sale, went through my entire house and priced it all for this rummage sale, had a flooded basement, tore apart the flooded basement, managed to get C to all of his baseball games except the one I didn't want to drive to

 drove 2.5 hours to see the Twins play a few times

got the adoption process 90% complete, had more people over and fires then I can count, and had 4 puppies!

 Now planning a trip to Wisconsin Dells for August, and a Luau adoption celebration party for September. Seriously? What happened to the simple summer days?! I miss them.

Doing all of this, my regular house chores have taken a back burner a lot of the time. Picking up after myself and two boys is enough Laundry & dishes have become enemies! Who has time for this stuff, at least ones with rugrats running around making a mess back in the room you just cleaned up before you started the dishes? Its a never ending battle and sometimes I just don't like to accept thats the way it is. Cook dinner? where would you like take out from? The normal things have been the most difficult this summer.
My rummage experience was AWFUL! My rummage experience was interesting....my procrastination took over and the basement drama didn't help either. I was still going through, marking and setting up the day before. My sister also thought she would make it more fun and give me 4 totes of my neices clothes to mark for her. How thoughtful, I really didn't have enough to do:) Pretty sure I slept about 4 hours three nights in a row to get all this done. Thursday was the first day and to start at 4pm. A little preview of my day....get up, stayed in my shorts&tank aka jammies  thank god I put a bra on! and start setting up first thing in the am. I am still marking my neices clothes as I am putting them out, its 80 degrees by 10am and the humidity is out of control. Going up and down stairs in that heat, imagine the beauty I had going on LOL, then being the wonderful neighbor I was to put this nightmare thing together I get to put up all the signs, balloons and get people here the day of. So that all happened about 12:30pm had them done by 1:30. Thought I could shower, get my money out, set up a table for myself to sit at and be ready by 3. Did I mention I had C this whole time too? Good times. Lunch was extra special this Thursday. So around 2pm I am a sweaty mess, still have no make up on, still in the clothes I slept in and still haven't showered....enter our first customers.   Just shoot me in the face All I am thinking is "you've gotta be kidding me" come to find out I had a free loading neighbor that didn't want to help pay for the neighborhood sale ad (I asked everyone involved for 10 whole dollars) so she started her sale at 2pm so it was "different"'. Well thanks lady, not only have you annoyed me with your free loading quality, but now really made my day suck. People just kept coming and DD was still working....so here I am. Ugh, awful. All I had was a chair and money for the first two hours cause I couldn't get away for even 2 minutes. There was always at least 6 people here at one time.  Then enter DD to the rescue! Whew!

First half of the summer was more work, now we're on to the more play time. Wisconsin Dells in 3 weeks should be a blast! We will be doing this as a substitute for our Disney trip that won't be happening in Oct. MONEY SUCKS But super excited to get C on a water filled mini vacation!