Valentine's Day

Its Valentine's Day and my 11th anniversary and there is basically no hope of spending time with my dh. I am so drained from three kids Valentine Parties this week. The biggest one was a t the co op, and I planned a lot of it. We ended up with 62 people I think. It was crazy, but I think everyone had fun. Mentally I was exhausted, and I have not completely recovered. Plus the fact that dh worked a lot of overtime. I thought since the overtime seems to be done for a while that we could do some work around the house. Dh is thinking more like where can we go to have fun, and basically stay out of the house. There are so many things that need done, but when do we have a chance to do them? I truly love planning homeschool stuff, and I have tons of ideas for stuff to do, I just wish we could have some extended quality time , just our family. Whenever we do have time that is unscheduled, we always end up just goofing off and not doing anything productive anyways. Like today , we arrived home at around 4:00 from the last Valentines Day Party. The boys just played silly games on the computer, and Brian and I just took a nap on the couch. So here it is Saturday night, I have not done laundry for church tomorrow, plus since Gabe dumped the laundry detergent, I can't do laundry anyway. I didn't make it to the grocery store, and I promised I would cook dinner for my mom's family tomorrow as a birthday present to her. I know this is just a big gripe session but its better to gripe here than to gripe at my family. I know when I am so tired I am not always reasonable.

Tomorrow I will blog about God's love, and how he is the ultimate lover of our soul, and how he can be the perfect husband etc,,,, I will thank Him and Praise Him for all the wonderful gifts he showers me with every day of my life. I will rave about how He is the ultimate Valentine... but for now I just need to throw all the negative emotions and thoughts out of my mind and my thoughts. Writing seems to be one way to get things off of my chest.

I am also nutritionally deprived... I need my shakes. One day this week I managed to take the equivalent of like 4 shakes. God must have know I was going to need the extra stuff, I only had like three hours of sleep that night thanks to Luke. I should have been a wreck the next day, but I managed. I was a little tired, but I could function with some degree of stability. I even managed to get all four boys to a Valentines Day party five minutes before it started, ( and I even had my food offering too). Well some boys are still up and not behaving, so I better get them to sleep so I can get some sleep too.