It's friday...

It's friday and this has been a long/short week. It's been long, but all of a sudden I'm like- it's Friday ALREADY???? I feel like I haven't gotten anything accomplished this week. My house is a wreck, we barely have clean clothes for everyone. Our meals that I had so carefully planned out last week- never materialized due to people being sick, or plans being changed.

But... it's fine though. I didn't accomplish the nicely made meals, the clean house and clean clothes, but I hope I accomplished letting each of my family know how much I love them and care for them. Rich was pretty sick this week, so most of the help that he does each day for me didn't happen and I had to try and make up for that. He is such a wonderful Dad and really does relate to the kids much better than I do most of the time. He knows how to diffuse their anger when they get upset- and how to really get down and play with them. So... with him being pretty out of it for a few days I felt the pressure to keep things calm with the kids without his help.

I found myself sitting on the floor playing with the girls more. I found myself counting in my head before I raised my voice more- and subsequently not raising my voice (not to say I was perfect and didn't yell at all... but I felt more in control and less out of control when the kids were stressing me out).

So... I didn't get the tangible things done this week, but I guess I still got some intangible things taken care of.