Lunch Preparedness, Relaxing, and the Kitsap Human Society

But first, a picture:

Ha. Did I just scare you?

heh.

Look what I made yesterday:

It has been a crazy-busy last 5 days… oh the last 2 weeks have nearly broken this woman. But due to faith and good friends (both online and IRL) I have had lots of shoulders to cry on, have been given wonderful encouragement, and been given great grace.

You may or may not know I have a couple of other places I contribute (using that word loosely…), and after a 2.5 hour late night/early morning brain purge I posted some new content! Yay!

• At Type-A Mom you will get a well thought-out Top Ten List on How NOT to Relax. Yeah.
• At my Kitsap Sun reader blog (Mom On The Spot) I shared about our wonderful experience with the Kitsap Human Society when we adopted our puppy in June.
• And finally, last year I posted about a great idea my friend had for back to school families – helping your children pack their own lunches, thus helping you help YOU during those potentially crazy off-to-school mornings.

School starts here in a few days. I know many of you have have already begun… Presently, I am in a pretty big fight with my hand-crank pencil sharpener. I have sharpened 16 of 72 #2 pencils. Pray for me. Pray either that I win the battle, or that the teachers don’t hold it against my 2 children that only 8 of their pencils are sharpened. I think I’m gonna call this a “school supply prep fail”. The whole ordeal has already driven my mouth to 4 Oreos. I don’t think my jeans could bear the consequences of 56 more hand-cranked, sharpened pencils. The word “war” comes to mind. We all know that war is ugly.