Manic Monday!

Whew!!!!  What a crazy week it has been!  With all the storms(and tornadoes!!) coming and going and the HOT, HOT weather its amazing I made it through the week lol!  To everyone who had to work outside this weekend, you are amazing!!  I dont know if I could have survived!  And I will say, I am not a fan of the no power, water, AC, internet, etc…but Im dealing with it as best as I can!  The main issue is finding things for Kaleigh and Carter to do so they wont fight all day haha!  I think the worst part is knowing that we have a generator….its just not working properly!  I had planned on getting so much done this weekend 🙁  Friday was great…the kids played really well together and I got A LOT done!  I took them to Barnes and Noble and Stevie B’s as a treat and then we went to our neighbor’s house to swim with their kiddos and watch the women’s gymnastics Olympic trials.  The day was great, but ended badly with a bad storm and power outage :/  Saturday was spent getting a lot of things done around the house that I normally don’t have time for(dusting, putting up our frame collage on the steps, etc).  I had planned to continue editing throughout the weekend, but the weather changed that!  We did get our power back for about an hour(what a tease!)  and then the BIG storm, or rather tornado hit!  It was INSANE!  Jay was actually out in it when it came through so he spent an hour(of what should have been a 15 minute drive) trying to get back to our house.  EVERY road was blocked with trees and power lines and we didnt know if he would even be able to get back that night or not.  Thankfully, someone came with a chainsaw and cut a path in the road and he made it!  And while this was happening, I was at home with the kids getting ready to go to my parents(our neighbors too!) house for dinner.  If you dont know about our driveway…it is STEEP and nearly a 1/2 mile long!  Like…if it snows in the winter, we are stuck.  No joke!  So anyway, I was driving down trying to get to my parents and at the bottom, straight across the entire driveway was a tree….making it impassable!  Luckily for us, my dad owns a construction business and had at home backhoe to rescue us!  Sunday was miserable!!!  It was really hard to do much of anything yesterday at the house so we decided to head out for lunch, Sweet Frog, and bowling!  The rest of the afternoon was spent just trying to cope lol!  I am just thankful my dad has a generator so we could watch the finals for the women’s gymnastics.  I am SO excited for the Olympics!

Anyway, Im currently at the library now as I am writing this and Kaleigh and Carter are reading and doing puzzles so I can try to get just a little bit of work done!  Im running on almost no sleep today…I think I was up every 5 minutes dripping sweat….ugh!  There wont be any photos accompanied with Manic Monday today and before I get to the goal list…I will warn you…its not pretty!  I managed to get a little bit done, but not nearly as much as I would have liked!  So here it is….

Last week’s goals:

Personal:

-organize the giant pile of papers on the counter

-clean up around the house

-have fun at the girls beach trip with my sister and friend and the kiddos

-start a new book

 

Business:

-edit portrait, bridal, and wedding photos

-place client orders

-catch up on emails

-blog 1 personal post and 1 wedding post

 

This week’s Goals:

Personal:

-Try to maintain my sanity without any power, water and AC(which means I cant do laundry, dishes, etc!)  This is going to be TOUGH!

-workout three times

-Plan something fun for the kids to do on the 4th….any suggestions?? 🙂

-order some new photos

-start a new book

-organize the giant pile of papers that are still sitting on the counter….:/

 

Business:

-edit portrait, bridal, and wedding photos

-place client orders

-catch up on emails

-blog at least 1-2 sessions this week!

 

Happy Monday everyone!