So this weekend's soundtrack would be joyful, rambunctious and of course, messy. I drove a carload of happy, energetic tweenagers to swim team...so my first song in the soundtrack is dedicated to them. They had me play it at least 6 times on our long drive to Creek High School. They laughed, teased each other and in general, had a great time and made me feel young again.
Then, I woke up at o'dark 30 on Saturday morning to get everyone into their Irish dance wigs, dresses, tiaras, shoes...oh wait. The youngest is missing her gillies. Super. How do you dance without your dance shoes, in your first Feis? With an awesome dance teacher that happens to have exactly the size you need, of course! Then, as an added bonus to my already insane morning...one of the kiddos comes to me complaining of her head itching and hurting. My first thought is, sorry, get dressed we have to go! Then I look. NIGHTMARE. Lice. Not a bad case, for of course in college during nursing clinicals, I had the joy of seeing the real deal. This was not one of those cases. BUT. IT. WAS. MY. KID's HEAD!
I like to think that I have an extremely clean house...my mom is an infection control nurse for God's sake. My friends who know me best know that I am slighlty compulsive with Clorox and Purell. So my soundtrack is now fluctuating between exhaustion and insanity. As I am trying to get three kids out the door to a Feis. So, said child will have to stay home and dad will have to deal. Thank heaven for dad! I leave, already 30 minutes late.
The Feis turned out amazing, thanks to wonderful friends who met me at the DOOR to help me get my kids finished dressing while I checked in for registration. We even had great friends come watch the girls dance and got me a cup of coffee. You all know who you are and I love you!
The rest of the weekend is me in rubber gloves, running...again...between applying Nix shampoo to all three daughter's heads (just to be safe) and the laundry room....had to throw out pillows, wash everything in site and scrub, scrub, scrub. AUGH! Sunday arrives, as husband is getting ready to leave for a week out of town, and I can't even comb through said daughter's hair. No salon will cut her hair, of course, so thank GOD for YouTube! I set up a salon chair, don the scissors and spray bottle and start cutting. 6 inches of dark brown hair all over my bathroom floor and viola! She loves her cute haircut and everyone is happy. For now.
My weekend's soundtrack fluctuated between drama and straight out pandamonium. Maybe this means my week will be slow. Right. :)
This Weekend's Playlist:
RadioActive - Imagine Dragons
The Antidote - St. Vincent
Done All Wrong - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Friends - Band of Skulls
Let it Go - Blue October
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
The Premiere
So I've always wanted to write, but life is too hectic to sit and write an organized book and my random one liners on Facebook aren't quite giving me the expression. So I've started a blog. Cliche? Overdone? Probably. But it's going to be my creative contribution for now, so read it or don't, judge nicely. You know who you are. And I am okay with that, I am not in high school anymore.
Have you ever considered what the soundtrack to your life would be? I have. I do. I could have a soundtrack for every day, maybe even hourly. I will even put a playlist at the end of every blog. This is where this blog's title surfaced. I am a SAHM (Stay at Home Mom), raising three determined, head-strong, brilliant, spiritual, busy girls. Daily, I rejoice in my vocation as much as I debate. What am I doing? Isn't there more to this life than running? Running is also my hobby...I live to run. Literally, I run between 1-3 miles a day, but I also vacillate between running to drop the girls to and from school, running errands, running through the house to pick up trails of toys and laundry and running the girls to and from their sports. Running to get them through dinner, homework and finally, to bed. So by the time my head hits my pillow, I think, should I be doing something greater? And my head plays back through my daily soundtrack...you guessed it, still running.
The chaos part? Did you miss the part about raising three GIRLS? Maybe drama would be a better word. It's a beautiful messy chaos, and I wouldn't love doing anything more. My days are filled with finding joyful abandon in each adventure...trying to stay on top of the latest tweenage revelations, keeping up with my precocious and independent 6 year-old and bringing out the spirit in my quiet middle child. So in between running with them, looking for the nearest Starbucks drive-thru and trying to remind myself of who I am in the middle of it all, my soundtrack continues.
Hope you find as much adventure reading about my life as I hope to find in writing about it. Stay tuned...the music is sweet, intense, raging and soul-filled. Hope you start thinking about the tunes that keep your day beating.
Today's Playlist
Clair de Lune
Cover Your Tracks - A Boy and His Kite
SkyFall - Adele
Part of Me - Katy Perry
Follow Me - Muse
Solar Midnite - Lupe Fiasco
This is the Stuff - Francesca Battistelli
Blue Does - Blue October
Show Stopper - Toby Mac
Hey Devil - Toby Mac
Have you ever considered what the soundtrack to your life would be? I have. I do. I could have a soundtrack for every day, maybe even hourly. I will even put a playlist at the end of every blog. This is where this blog's title surfaced. I am a SAHM (Stay at Home Mom), raising three determined, head-strong, brilliant, spiritual, busy girls. Daily, I rejoice in my vocation as much as I debate. What am I doing? Isn't there more to this life than running? Running is also my hobby...I live to run. Literally, I run between 1-3 miles a day, but I also vacillate between running to drop the girls to and from school, running errands, running through the house to pick up trails of toys and laundry and running the girls to and from their sports. Running to get them through dinner, homework and finally, to bed. So by the time my head hits my pillow, I think, should I be doing something greater? And my head plays back through my daily soundtrack...you guessed it, still running.
The chaos part? Did you miss the part about raising three GIRLS? Maybe drama would be a better word. It's a beautiful messy chaos, and I wouldn't love doing anything more. My days are filled with finding joyful abandon in each adventure...trying to stay on top of the latest tweenage revelations, keeping up with my precocious and independent 6 year-old and bringing out the spirit in my quiet middle child. So in between running with them, looking for the nearest Starbucks drive-thru and trying to remind myself of who I am in the middle of it all, my soundtrack continues.
Hope you find as much adventure reading about my life as I hope to find in writing about it. Stay tuned...the music is sweet, intense, raging and soul-filled. Hope you start thinking about the tunes that keep your day beating.
Today's Playlist
Clair de Lune
Cover Your Tracks - A Boy and His Kite
SkyFall - Adele
Part of Me - Katy Perry
Follow Me - Muse
Solar Midnite - Lupe Fiasco
This is the Stuff - Francesca Battistelli
Blue Does - Blue October
Show Stopper - Toby Mac
Hey Devil - Toby Mac
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