So Much!

A year ago we ripped out our old kitchen and dining room. The process had a COVID delay, but our contractor worked magic in time for us to host a group 30 for Easter dinner. 

To say I enjoy this new space would be an understatement. It is a delight to cook, bake or just spend time in our clean, spacious, brightly-lit kitchen. One of my favorite parts is the first pic you see here: the wall of cabinets and pantry. Besides storing all the things, the middle stack of narrow-depth cabinets is maybe my most favorite.

Below the top three shelves of dining room hutch stuff are two shelves for me and Ray to store all our things that used to clutter the counters (spy my stash of emergency chocolate?). Below those is the mostly empty charging station. The bottom cabinet is the stuff of mom-life legend. Each of the younger three have their own shelf so when they leave something in the kitchen, I sweep it out of sight. When they start getting overfull (like right now- this is a vulnerable picture for me), it’s their chore to clean out their shelf.

But that’s not the point of this post.

It’s this:

On the inside of that cabinet I post a calendar of activities to keep track of the crazy. We survived that. Nine weeks of our nuttiest season yet. That calendar doesn’t include the daily soccer, cross country, band and percussion practices, the theater build days, or the all-day band competitions. It doesn’t include my husband’s sort of terrifying hiking trip in the Grand Canyon, my five-week stint as a high school Spanish sub, or the week I spent on the jury for a murder trial.

It’s why I’ve been so quiet on my blog, why I have so many words in my head that I’m crabby and have no time to get them onto a page.

We have rolled into the sweet spot called early November. Fall sports officially ended this week. Winter activities have started but aren’t as hectic (yet?) and the holiday craziness also hasn’t begun. I have time to uncork my brain, tip myself over my keyboard and let flow all the words, thoughts and ideas I’ve had on the soccer sidelines, along the cross country course, on the way to band competitions and football games. Just typing this and I feel better already!