May

I am getting a little stressed out by the calendar again. Seriously. May... does it to me every time.
THis past weekend we had the youth rummage sale. (Which was a HUGE success once again, even if it was EXHAUSTING.) The big mound of stuff left over is under a big green tarp in the church yard. I call it our turtle. I probaby need to figure out what to do with it soon! We also had our Church Spring Party, with inflatables, games, lots of food, and a BBQ. The only technicality is that I bought a new grill about 3 hours before the party. The man at Lowes told me it would take about 30 minutes to put together. Yeah right. We ended up using our old, corroded grill off the youth house porch... and cooking the burgers in the oven. (And the grill is in about 10 less pieces on the back porch) ARGH!!! Lots of people came though, even though it was windy and a bit cold, so even though it was exhausting it was LOTS of fun too.

Now we are all in the second half of May and that is when I always start getting stressed. Just for a run down... May still contains: weekends at camp on the ropes course, the Memorial Day campout with my sister and her family at Brookville Lake (this could be TRAUMATIZING- they don't exactly camp the way I do!), graduations and graduation parties.

Then it will be June: spaghetti lunch fundraiser, campout and canoe trip, Logan's first birthday party in Cleveland, Vacation Bible School, and all the other usual stuff.

Then it will be July: nearly 2 weeks in Minnesota with the youth, a week in Arkansas with the youth, King's Island, oh, and my JOB in the office.

THen it will be August: another Vacation Bible School, Tar HOllow, cook outs, Young's Dairy, and gearing up for the beginning of the school year.

Throw into the mix of all those things the part about getting a new senior pastor in July, trying to take 24 hours in a row off work, and the fact that I really, really, really want to get the chance to spend time with some of my favorite people who I will be crossing paths with this summer... and I get STRESSED.

A big part of the problem is that I am much more of a go-with-the-flow kind of girl than a planner... and yet I have lots "planned" through August.

I LOVE summer.... but it stresses me out!!!!!!!!!

love yas.
lets cross paths soon!!