long time, no blog

Aug 28

Posted by: Rachel in: blog, current events, ramblings, who wants to read this?

You’re probably wondering where I’ve been or what hole I fell into. I’ve had so much I’ve been meaning to sit down and write about, just no time to do it. I’m sure everyone can relate to that at some time or another.

Tuesday, I had an orthodontist appointment bright and early at 8am. Now that we live 40 minutes away, it complicates things a bit though. I always ask for the first appointment of the day and try to get there early so I can get in and out as quickly as possible. Scott stays home with Caleb, so I’m always in a rush to get right back home so he can leave for work. They were running behind as usual, and when he finally got over to my chair, he looked at my teeth and asked if I wanted to get my braces off that day! Totally unexpected, I thought it would be next visit. So I was really excited to get that done. My teeth are all nice and straight (Again. My second time in braces. This time I did a combination of Invisalign and braces though.)

I can’t even remember what I passed the day doing, but I do remember as soon as Scott got home, we rushed out the door to go meet the newest member of the family. Scott’s nephew and his wife recently welcomed little Levi last month and are in town this week visiting. We didn’t get home until 9ish, and I hurried to get Caleb in the bed so I could prepare for Wednesday. My orthodontist is located where we used to live and where my dad currently lives during the week for work. Since I had to go right back on Wednesday to pick up my retainers, I figured Caleb and I could spend the day at my Dad’s apartment and do some shopping. But this meant I had to pack toys, books to read at naptime, lunch, clothes in case of accidents, etc, etc.

The tropical storm/hurricane, whatever it was, moved through Tuesday night and all day yesterday. It poured. And poured and poured. So much that Scott had to run out and drain some water out of the pool because it was about to overflow (which is probably not good for an easy set pool)! Of course, it was pouring when Caleb and I piled in the car to head out for my orthodontist appointment. I carefully backed out through the river at the end of our driveway (think I’m kidding? pictures below), and headed on my way in amazement at all of the flooding. The drive is through back country roads and it always makes or breaks your trip time depending on who you get behind. For once, I found myself hoping to get behind someone, so there would be a guinea pig in front of me. I could watch where they hit water and know to slow down or scoot over. I slipped several times and the passenger side hydroplaned pretty good one time. It wavered for about three seconds and then I felt the tire grab pavement again. Scary. Driving is an entirely different experience when your whole life is in the backseat. He kept pretty quiet for the entire ride, I think he sensed that I needed to concentrate. I white knuckle gripped the steering wheel so hard the entire way, I felt like I had arthritis by the time we arrived!

Something became evident to me when I came home last night. There are many days where I feel like I’ve done nothing all day, but yet, the day is over anyhow. Well now I see, I must do a lot of things without thinking, because the house looked like a tornado hit. Clothes everywhere, not really even that many toys, but just stuff. Stuff everywhere. Things that needed my attention. Needed to be washed or put away or both. I left all of it last night, and just started immediately this morning. After all, I needed somewhere to feed the kid breakfast!

So I have already cleaned up a bunch of stuff, done some laundry, filled the dishwasher and started it, vacuumed, and put my new steamer to work (more to follow on this newest family member later!). All before lunch. For getting up at 8am, I think that’s pretty good!

So that’s mostly where I’ve been. Just busy. And you know, hanging on to my phone pole for dear life, hoping I didn’t get washed away!

See that river?  It isn’t supposed to be there!

And there’s a curb buried somewhere under there.

Comments

5 Responses to “long time, no blog”

    Amber
    August 28th, 2008 2:59 pm

    Charlotte got 8 inches of rain in 36 hours! And yes, we ladies do A LOT and we don’t even realize it! Like every other chick, I come home and do laundry, cook dinner, take care of the pets, make the bed (which is never made in the morning because a certain someone is still in it!), do the dishes, and cram in me time for the computer and exercising. All in three hours. Once I actually talked my other half into doing laundry. When I put it in the dryer, I could tell he hadn’t used any detergent. He thought if you use the color-safe bleach you didn’t need any detergent! Funny how we pick up all this knowledge along the way and they, well . . . just don’t. LOL!!!

    Amber
    August 28th, 2008 3:39 pm

    Hey, I have a new monster!!

    Amber
    August 28th, 2008 3:40 pm

    Wait, my old one is back. What’s going on? :)

    Dianna
    August 29th, 2008 10:27 am

    I didn’t know you had braces. You were lucky to have the invisaline ones! I had the normal metal ones for almost 5 years, that was fun!
    I understand how stuff just becomes stuff sitting around. Not really sure how it happens, but I know the feeling!
    Wow, you huys sure are getting the rain back there, Caleb’s probably loving the mud puddles!

    Julie
    August 29th, 2008 10:48 pm

    Wow! look at that! I hope it dries out a little for you! Do you have water in your basement? Glad to hear about your braces! I didn’t know you had them! :)

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