January 5th A rough start!

Back to school! It was not a good start. We have company staying at our house and we had all stayed up very late last night but they stayed up way later than I did. So they are sleeping on the couches upstairs and downstairs and I am trying to keep the boys quiet and get them ready for school in the dark. First Zachariah couldn’t find his beloved sweatshirt that he must wear everyday or the world will fall apart and he will have the most awful day of all time. I think it was under a body on a couch so he pressed on without his sweatshirt but with a very foul mood. Then it is time to go and we can not find a single pair of shoes for Jeremiah. We looked and looked in the dark finally had to turn on lights and wake people up, Zachariah who was already in foul mood was freaking out because he cant handle being late. We could find one each of a Velcro shoe a tie shoe and one snow boot. AAAAAHHHHH. I was going to make him wear the mismatch pair and just move on but they were both right foots! Finally we found his other snow boot and ran out the door. They ended up exactly on time which to Zachariah is late. Hopefully we will have a better go tomorrow. Jeremiah is not allowed to do anything after school until he finds all of his shoes!

I was tired and cranky on my way to work sooo I got a Mt. Dew. BAD, BAD, BAD me. I know I should be really disappointed with myself but not so much. I don’t know why I
cant get motivated to eat and drink right. That was my first cave in with the Mt. Dew which is my biggest weakness.

I had advisory council today. Attendance was average but I was somewhat encouraged by their desire to step it up. They are planning a day retreat and arranging for a professional facilitator to be there and help us move forward with a five year plan to accomplish our goals of finishing our capital campaign and building the rest of our building. They were all participating in conversation and willing to make significant time commitments to help us move forward. That was encouraging.

We have so much to be done. So many loose ends out there that need tied up. It is a bit overwhelming.