Rearin' to Go

Well, I felt so much better after typing my blog out last night. I just had a peace about things and felt ready to deal with whatever came my way. I know that I can only do what I am capable of doing, and everything else just has to wait or be put on a backburner. I slept better last night than I have in weeks and felt energized this morning when I got up. I checked my e-mail this morning and 2 moms have contacted me to share the biggest need we had in the classroom (it was for the "teacher helper" and they have to come in once a week and do odd jobs). I was so relieved because the other 2 openings for help include coming in once a month to put up the bulletin board, and coming in twice a month to give the teacher a 30 minute break on Tuesdays when she doesn't have a break otherwise. Those 2 things I can handle, but the once a week thing was going to be a bit much when I start back to work. God is taking care of me and I don't know why I let myself get stressed about it in the first place! Tommorrow is the Olympics at school and Annelise has asked me a bajillion times "You're going to be there, in MY class, right Mommy?" She is pumped. Brian is off on Fridays, so he gets to go to Emmaline's room and volunteer in there for the Olympics. They get to wear their soccer and basketball uniforms and are so excited. It should be cute. I am still having issues with my babies being so old all of a sudden. Annelise only compounded those issues last night when she just looked at me and said "Mommy, I don't believe in fairy tales anymore." WHAT?! She said there is just no way those stories can be true and asked me if they were real. Well, I don't like to lie to my kids and so I told her, "Yes. In a lot of ways, fairy tales are true." (Hey, I can't tell you that some of that stuff hasn't really happened, now can I?) I realized then, that we only have another year or 2 for Santa to be believed whole-heartedly and my heart just sank for a minute. She stated that she does believe in the tooth fairy. I think she would believe in anyone who gave her gifts.... Well, I want to just do the best with the time we have for these months/years of wild imaginations and magical sentiments. Here's hoping to happily ever after!