Feel like I should expound on this week.
It's been so epic, I'm not sure where to begin...
Let's work our way backwards beginning with what hasn't happened yet.
On Saturday, I'll be 30.
On Saturday, I won't be at the ladies retreat.
On Saturday, Avery is having an early birthday tea party with mostly family and some of the little girls from her class at school. The tea party is at our house - that's important because ...
On Friday, I will install a chair rail in Avery's bedroom, finish the touch up paint in Avery's bedroom and the living room, paint the other side of and re-install the 8 interior doors (half of which got painted Thursday), clean the house, finish shopping for A's presents, make cupcakes and sandwiches, wrap presents, and go have dinner with my old teacher friends at Cheddar's for my birthday. But first, I have to make sure the house is in tip top shape.
On Thursday, I painted one-side of 8 doors in our house, primed and painted a chair rail for Avery's bedroom, finished busting out our master bathroom shower and found it to be in worse shape than previously expected... Thought about crying.. a lot.
On Wednesday, finished painting stripes in A's bedroom (Painting stripes anywhere should be avoided at all cost. Just my opinion, but for what it's worth - don't do it.) , put the finishing touches on J's bedroom - most of which was painted the previous weekend, shopped for groceries, paid bills, went to a good friend's mother's funeral, she was too young...
On Tuesday, really thought about crying. I started painting stripes in Avery's room. Crazy. Why do stripes make her so happy? 6 colors of paint ladies and gentlemen - but it's soooooo cute and cheery! I also took a break on the master bathroom, which at this point looks like a total loss to me...
On Monday, I began demolition on our master bathroom, only to realize that the damage seems to be much more extensive than previously thought. Our master bedroom carpet (which is pink and, if you'll remember - I LOVE) is toast (rotten from leak in shower), as are much of the baseboards and sheet rock on the surrounding walls...
Monday also happened to be our 7th wedding anniversary.
We were so bombarded with life and all that it entails, we barely got to celebrate - but we went to dinner and it was sweet. And very us.
I am so thankful for him. I could be no happier than to share my life with this wonderful man. Many days, it's hard, just because life with kids and a mortgage and 'adult things' is so unpredictable - but more and more, I find myself endlessly thankful for all the turns that led me to him.
7 years. During that time, pretty much the ONLY thing that has stayed the same is the fact the we are still WE.
These last seven days pretty well round out 'normal' for us.
We work hard. We play hard. We live hard. We love hard.
We have lived and loved and enjoyed so much of each other.
And I am grateful.
So an epic week, no doubt. I am ready to finish up my 20's with a bang and look forward to a more 'normal' and less insane decade in my 30's. Please tell me things magically slow down in your 30's...