the hamster wheel and the amazing race....

the two things that describe my life right now:

a hamster wheel and the amazing race...

i am running in my hamster wheel just trying to keep up...

hoping it doesn't throw me out...

i run in my wheel starting a 6 every morning...

and finally i fall out of my wheel around 11...

just to get up and do it all over again tomorrow...

sigh....

school is kicking the powers household in the tail...

i knew i was not ready for summer to end...

but wow... it did and it caught me by surprise...

no one is loving getting up at 6:20am...

everyone is ill and tired in the afternoons...

third grade homework is rough...

three test on friday,

20 spellings words a week,

math sheets, DOG, the list goes on... plus reading 20 minutes every night...

gezzz i thought we went to school for 7 hours a day...

sister is having the roughest time...

she got moved to pink last week...

normally she would be ecstatic about that...

b.c it is her favorite color...

but this time it was not a good thing...

she got a note sent home for talking...

and it CRUSHED her little spirit...

we did not even have to discipline her...

she took care of that herself...

she is so hard on herself...

she cried herself to sleep at bed time...

b.c she did not want to go to school the next day...

i took her to school that morning so she could sleep a little longer...

of course she came home with an awesome day...

but she still talks about being on PINK...

she cried saturday b.c it was one day closer to monday..

she cried sunday b.c tomorrow was monday... it breaks my heart...

she is my one who loves school...

but not right now...

what to do, what to do...

gosh this side of the fence is SO HARD...and as her picture shows...

she is still scared! :(

(but a least she has monogrammed clothes on)

and i run the amazing race as well...

to school,

to work,

the grocery,

the dentist, football,

cheerleading practice,

open house,

church,

the list goes on

and

on

and

on

and we are about to add baseball to this list too...

on me oh my!!!!

and some where on this list is

cook,

clean house,

laundry,

etc....

we will survive...

we always do...

come november we will be board...

b.c there is nothing to do...

no place to go...

getting back into a new normal just takes time...

change is hard...

but until then we will keep running in our hamster wheel

and running in our amazing race...

hopefully there is a fast pass coming soon!

and b.c a long list of words from my ever so scattered brain is not always fun...

here are some pictures that are fun!!!!