Wow, she is amazing!

I had time earlier in the week but I lounged in bed, fully knowing I would be crunched for time later. I tried avoidance and the Holiday hectic is catching up to my psyche. So I didn't call my mom for help until the very last minute and she pulled it out for me! What an inspiration that was for me to be more patient and helpful when my own kids leave things to the last minute.
Before dawn yesterday I am up to get son off to early morning religion class with only 4 or 5 hours of sleep under my belt. Then other two kids off to school by 8am, everyone gone. I pile back under the covers and slip into the thoughts I am having after finishing The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I am up sometime before noon, have time to shower and get ready to face the day. Off to a friend's house to shop at a CaBI end of the year clearance. A few fun outfits later I head to the fabric store looking for fun Christmas prints, they are getting really bad lately, hardly carrying anything. I am going to stick with my outlet store from now on. Husband is home from office for a few hours before heading in to work. I come home after grabbing a few things at Target and start split pea soup just before kids start coming home at 2:50p. Then I start thinking I should have gotten some excercise in , oh well maybe tomorrow. Now I start trying to figure out how to download SD cards on camcorder bought this summer so I can record oldests' band concert for his father. Oldest comes home at 3:30p and I haven't made much progress. I start thinking about just going to buy another, the fourth, card when I start reading the manual for the camera. Seems easy but now I am starting to get stressed. "The soup is bubbling" my oldest says as the youngest comes in at 4:10p, hungry and cold and only wanting one thing, to advance his PS2 game to unlock more cars, players or something he is all revved up for. I bargain with him to do his homework first, lots of whining at this point but he does it. At 4:45 the girl calls for a ride home and I know there is a piano lesson at 5p to get youngest to so I sit him in front of soup bowl and hop in the car. Now it is rush hour and it takes me longer to get there and back, I already have a ticket warning in this city so no speeding. Pick up the youngest at 4:48p and he is a couple minutes late which I am bemoaning so the girl is quiet. Then back home find the oldest still trying to figure out my camera, he is frustrated so by 5:40 after taking girl to piano and picking up youngest I find him dressed for band concert but now engrossed in PS2 as well, he struck up a plan with youngest to help him unlock those things! He is in car and we are heading to High school when I finally call my mom. She is up to the task, put off who knows what to help me in my crisis (created by you know who!). She needs model number of camera, it's at h0me. I pick up girl from piano lesson at 6:15. Back at home by 6:25 and now I have 40 minutes daughter says to relax and starts to tell me about her day. Then she thinks otherwise and leaves me talking with grandma who is now holding my hand stoically over the phone looking up camera model and info on-line and grasping the language rather quickly. Seems like my new camera is so sophisticated that it only can run with HD technology included so we figure that out and download, now trying to find it on hard drive of computer so we can be sure it did before I format the disk to take to concert. For a minute or two it is unclear then 6:58 we think we have it and more to learn later but disk is clear and ready to go. I am off to concert that starts at 7:30 and am there waiting with 10 minutes to spare! Didn't get a chance to see husband leave for work, but maybe later. Concert goes well, taping works great, good camera. Now it is 9:30p, the boy and I are hungry for dinner and we pick up a pie, French apple cheesecake and head home to eat. He heads off to bed by 10:10p and I have a book read to me by youngest, who doesn't want to go to bed and has been short of sleep all week and girl finally gets to tell me about her day in whispers under the frustration of the boy reading that thinks I can't be listening to him and her at same time-honestly! Pie is in fridge, I leave on a note for husband whose only birthday wish was, I don't even know! I settle down in bed to watch late news and he calls to say he will be home in a couple hours. I wish him Happy Birthday and wake up this morning to do it all again, yes with the sleeping until noon as well but this time I wasn't alone. Now I check my email and my mother, bless her heart, has researched my camera and email me all kinds of info and even highlighted the parts for me to see like cliff notes! All I can say is "Wow, she is amazing!"