The Friday that felt nothing like a Friday!

Woo Wee what a day, what a day!  I know I'm not the only one who seems to start off every week counting down the days till it's Friday! I love Fridays, it means it's family movie night, and that I have my husband home for the next two days (Yippee for help!)
However I have been thinking lately, all I'm doing is wishing the days to go faster to get to Friday! That stinks to think that I'm wishing most of the week away just to get to Friday. Well today all I was wishing was that it was Sunday! LOL ( I need to stop wishing so much, and learn to seize the day!) Saturday is my daughters birthday! The BIG 10! <-------That is a whole nother blog!!!! So this means that my Friday was filled with complete chaos getting ready for her big b-day! I think we have a great tradition where every other year is a family birthday, very low key celebration with the fam. And the other year is a big birthday, and since I love planning parties we usually do go pretty big! Well this year is a big party year! We are going all out with a Food Network theme party! We're going to play Iron Chef America, Throw down with Taylor Stark, and for dessert, Cupcake Wars! She has 7 girls coming and some of Isaiah's friends coming over to help judge! Should be a great time, after I'm done prepping all the food, making over 200 cupcakes, and getting my house picked up just to watch it be destroyed in a matter of seconds!
So this Friday started off with some menu prep, grocery shopping while the older kids we're in school, and last minute present shopping! All was going fairly well. I picked up the kids from their half day of school and we headed to the store to meet Daddy and hopefully finish up all the shopping. I was feeling incredibly exhausted so my thought was get this done and you can go home and nap while the boys nap, and the other kids play. We finished shopping quickly and headed home. I immediately laid Eli down, brought in the groceries, and headed to the couch after warning the kids that Momma needed to rest so I could bake and prep all evening! Twenty minutes in to my supposed snooze session and I've got a 4 year old snoozing on my lap, and an annoying dog (that I love, lol) jumping on my head every five seconds! So so far no sleep has happened. I get up put the dog away, and snuggle up again with my sweet little man! Time to head back to closing my eyes. I'm almost to snoring when I hear my wonderful toddler who usually naps for at least 2 hours (it's been about 30 minutes) "MOMMA! MOMMA! ALL DONE! " At this point I'm so tired, and a migrane has decided to join me in my wonderful day, I decided to see if he falls back asleep! However I am finding it very hard to try to sleep listening to MOMMA being screamed every minute! After 20 minutes I give in and go get him out of bed! It's now time to enlist the older siblings to baby-sit. This does not go over well since after Eli has woken up he's decided to continue screaming no matter what you offer him! I am now livid! I just need a 30 minute nap, please, oh please, oh please! The afternoon goes on to me trying to lay down and getting up every 10 minutes to tend to something , to include the dog escaping, Joshua trying to flood the front yard, and Eli's constant screaming! Now Momma's in a B-A-D mood! It's no longer Friday, my mind has decided it is certainly Monday! I give up on the nap and kick the kids into cleaning mode ( They very quickly regret not letting Momma sleep)! Some migrane medicine and a shower later I finally feel human again! But I was oh so mad that the one day I look forward to the most was very much the opposite of nice!
What I learned from this is to have something I look forward to every day, and most importantly remember how many children I have and that the chances of the day going exactly how I have written down in my planner!
I hope that Everyone else had a wonderful Friday, and that you all took a nap for me! Here's to the weekend and seizing the moment! I know this weekend will be a hard one for me! Lot's of tears to come as I watch my baby girl turn one year bigger!

Here's to moving on and new adventures!

So here goes nothing! To start off this blog is more for me then anything. When I'm feeling down, confused,or angry or whatever, I write. Afterwards I feel like a load has been lifted. I don't know why but lately I have been feeling a huge push to get rid of my Facebook account and start a blog. I know that a lot of my time during the day seems to be on facebook. I never seem to mean to but I'll just randomly go to someones page , see something interesting on their page then an hour later I'm looking at a complete strangers pictures for who knows what reason! LOL
I also think that Facebook can have a way of making you feel invisible at times. You write something that you think is interesting or important and nothing....for awhile I was wondering if I wrote a suicide note if anyone would notice. Then I had to think why do you have this page, if your friends are your friends they know you and they will know how to reach you. They will also know if your having a hard time, or if you have exciting news, so on and so fourth. I just felt like it wasn't a positive place for me to be if that makes any sense.
I'm excited for this new adventure! I get this feeling that there are a lot of changes coming our way. I don't know good or bad (please good I could so use a break from the negative!) But I'm also working to make some major changes within myself.  I'm working to invite God into my everyday life, and all that I am. I'm working to be a follower not a fan! I would be lying if I said with everything going on I've been having a tough time turning to God lately! That's all gonna turn around! I plan to praise him in the storm, and when things are good as well! I tend to forget he's behind both things!
So feel free to join me on this new journey! Here's to new things, and thank God new beginnings! His mercies are new everyday! Who would like to join me in an AMEN to that!