cRaZY

I was just looking back at my HUGE amount of blog posts last year... wow -- slow. me. down. on the writing thing :) and realized that I had a "word" last year -- BREATHE.  Boy - did that come in handy!!  It kind of cracks me up - but so do most things.  Because really, if I don't laugh, odds are I will cry, and if I cry, odds are I won't stop!

Sticking with the word thing - I have decided that to sum up the happenings lately in the world of all things Mona, CRAZY it is!  Here's why......

 * fire caused by a fireplace in the month of JULY.....

CRAZY (even if we do live in Wisconsin!)

 * cleaning bill for said fire ~ $31,873.82.....

CRAZY (oh yah - don't get me started on ServiceMaster!)

 *Absolutely no a problem in the world with our insurance company picking up the bill for cleaning.....

CRAZY with a huge sigh of RELIEF on the side!

*Going to Milwaukee to scatter Dad's ashes in Lake Michigan.....

CRAZY sad, CRAZY beautiful, CRAZY peaceful,  CRAZY surreal.... I LOVE YOU DAD!

*Continuing on from Milwaukee to go around Lake Michigan in our camper 

with Mom, Bobby, Me, Bode, Avery and Laney

CRAZY fun!

*Dalaney starting Northwoods Preschool last fall

CRAZY that my baby I mean big girl is old enough to go to school (even if it is Preschool!)

*Bode in 3rd grade and Avery in 2nd grade

CRAZY -- who allowed them to get so big so fast?  Who?

*Volunteering to be on the Preschool board and  be a Leader for Girl Scouts

while Bobby is a leader for Boy Scouts and helps out with Nordic Kids

not to mention helping/leading with any other thing that comes our way.....

CRAZY fun, rewarding and exhausing all at once!

*sewing Halloween costumes by candlelight because we didn't have POWER for 3 days

CRAZY even if they did turn out to be AMAZING, I wouldn't recommend it!

*surviving Terrible Tuesdays each week due to the fact that we have ballet, piano and tap all on the same evening with bearly enough time to go back and forth to Hayward to squeeze it all in

CRAZY.... just plain CRAZY!

*finding out Mom has ovarian cancer less than a year after Dad died from Esophogeal Cancer

CRAZY... I mean seriously, I have no words!

*watching Mom go through one hell of a surgery to remove most of the HUGE tumor

CRAZY

*being able to stay with her for the month long hospital stay while Bobby handled everything else flawlessly

CRAZY thankful

*watching Mom get a blood clot and go through complication after complication

CRAZY awe inspiring that she did it!  She survived!! go Mom!!

*watching Mom overcome every obsticle with such strength

CRAZY proud

*Trying to help Mom with the CRAZY amount of Life Changing decisions

CRAZILY overwhelming

 

*Realizing that I can handle all of this or at least keep putting one foot infront of the other

CRAZY

*Knowing that I have THE BEST FAMILY and FRIENDS on the planet

CRAZY lucky, humbled and thankful

*spending Christmas in a hotel in Rochester with Doug and his family to be closer to Mom

CRAZY ~ it was actually REALLY FUN!  Santa even found us!

*taking on the task of Girl Scout Cookie Coordinator for the 4 troops in Drummond

CRAZY x 10

*planning Bode's CRAZY Science Lab 9th Birthday Party

CRAZY amounts of time, CRAZY amount of 9 year old boys running around, but Oh SO MUCH FUN!!  Happy Birthday Mister Bode! Muah!

*Bobby and I getting together with some new friends for a couples night once a month

CRAZY fun, fun, FUN!

*Cleaning - I mean SERIOUSLY cleaning the basement (so Mom could move in for a while)

CRAZY -- I really NEVER thought it would actually happen -- I have a CLEAN basement!

*deciding that THIS IS THE YEAR to actually get serious and start my little business(es)

CRAZY!

 I even signed up for an online class (Indie Biz 3.0) to get me going (seeing that all the cool kids signed up also was quite a motivator ~ cause that's how I roll ~ hee hee)

so get ready for Pete + Vi

(a place for me to sell my party goods, paper ideas and anything else the tickles my fancy!)

and Studio M

(a place for me to design advertising materials)

We'll see how it goes!

So, so many more happenings, but really - how long should one post be.... really....

I guess you could say, "we are all stocked up on CRAZY here"!  And I wouldn't have it any other way!

love.....Mona