thank you! so! much!

Overwhelming. That’s the word to describe the past weekend.

Thank you, each and every single one of you that wished me a happy birthday. Thank you to each of you that gifted me the coolest stuff, wrote nice things and made dorky faces. Thank you to each one of you that sent me something in the mail and thank you for all those awesome E-cards. Thank you, My Beautiful Friend Lisa who gave me the coolest birthday presents – Driving my kids to and from school for the day and a B&B bag for my make-up. I can’t decide which one I like more, the driving of the kids or the bag ;)

I started out the day a little depressed. Shaun woke me up as he was leaving for work with a ‘Happy Birthday’ sweetheart. I was sad he was leaving on.my.birthday.
I soon forgot as Tyler yelled, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTINE!” as he headed out the door for school and all four girls crawled into bed to give me birthday cuddles.

When I got up to make my coffee I realized the house would need to be cleaned before Kara got home with 10 of her girlfriends. I would be cleaning on.my.birthday.
Kara had mentioned that she wanted me to come to her school for my birthday and have lunch with her, but there was NO way I would be able to get the whole house cleaned, get her decorations, cake, pizza, soda AND have lunch with her.

The living room and dusting got done pretty fast, but that damn kitchen was a pain in the ass to clean. I would get distracted by something that pissed me off…like the dishes the kids had put back in the cupboard that were CLEARLY NOT CLEAN! or that everytime I opened a drawer something fell out of it because people CRAM stuff in there.

Overwhelmed. I was getting pissed and started to cry. Then I realized something as noon approached. Kara would never remember how I had spent my whole birthday cleaning the house for her party, but she would remember that I showed up at her school to eat lunch with her. I put down the sponge and mad dashed it for the shower.

I’m blessed, I know this and I don’t take it for granted. When the girls saw me sitting in the cafeteria they came up and gave me long hugs. Their friends even came up and gave me hugs. I had made the right choice.

After lunch, Shaun surprised me by coming home early and helping me set up for the party.

All in all, it wasn’t such a bad birthday after all.

I wanted to thank everyone for making my birthday SO very special. You made a huge difference in my day and I thank you! I love ALL my cyber gifts.

I just wish I could get this damn magic wand to work!!