Exhaustion

Life is good, don't get me wrong.  But the past few weeks I've been run ragged.  This is always a busy time of year with the normal holiday activities.  Plus all four of us have birthdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Add in traveling for Christmas, a baptism, out of town guests, visits with both birthmoms, and a bunch of friend and relative birthdays during that same time frame -- and I'm tired.

Here's what I've accomplished already in the last week:

• Getting the yard cleaned up for winter.
• Buddy's birthday.
• Cleaning the house from top to bottom.
• Hosting 21 people for Thanksgiving dinner.
• Cleaning house after Thanksgiving.
• Zoo lights.
• Pulling an all-nighter for Black Friday.  My first time!  So fun!
• Cutting down and decorating our Christmas tree.
• Date night with G to Breaking Dawn Part One.  LAME/GROSS.  (the movie, not the date)

Here's what I still need to accomplish in the next week/few weeks:

• Fold about 10 loads of laundry sitting on my bedroom floor.
• Clean the house from top to bottom to prepare for visitors this week.
• Buddy's Baptism.
• Make sure Buddy is relaxed about his baptism.
• Pay the bills.
• Plan and execute some sort of Baptism party.
• Host grandparents.
• Host Buddy's birthmom and her family.
• Sambo's birthday.
• Schedule a time to see Sambo's birthmom to celebrate his birthday.
• Make a bunch of cakes/cupcakes for all the parties happening. 
• Get hair cut.
• Two days at Great Wolf Lodge.
• Mail Christmas cards.
• Buy presents.  (Most have been bought, thank heavens.)
• Wrap Christmas presents.
• Deliver packets our friends put together for the homeless.
• Teach the kids about giving and service.  Find opportunities to give and serve.
• Find Buddy a suit.
• Get everybody to the doctor/eye doctor since we've met our deductible for the year.
• Plan and execute a friend birthday party for Sambo.
• Host a Christmas party with our friends.
• Hire movers to move a piano to our house.
• Get that piano repaired and tuned.
• Find a piano teacher for Buddy.
• Talk to our accountant.
• Iron.  OR take G's clothes to the dry cleaners.  He officially has NO un-ironed white shirts.
• Get life insurance before I turn 35 in a few weeks.
• Do everything that needs to be done for my calling.
• Schedule adoption trainings for 2012.
• Plan something fun for G's birthday.
• Get ready to go out of town for Christmas.
• Update our adoption profile.
• I'm sure I have to teach preschool somewhere soon too.
• Get to the gym three times a week since all I do is celebrate people's birthdays.
• Make sure all my friends who are sad are OK.
• Take care of the kids.