It's on everything

I went to 4 stores today, shopping for home and for our camping trip. What I discovered most of all is that Lightning McQueen is on EVERYTHING. I knew that he was well-liked but after having spent SO much time in the stores today I have come to the realization that he is an american obsession (at least if you are a little dude about 2 1/2.). Today Michael got a Lightning fishing rod, bike helmet, coloring book, reading book, and Lightning and Mater (the best friend) shaped mac and cheese. A few days ago it was a Lightning pair of shoes, which he hasn't taken off even to go to bed. He really is everywhere, that Lightning. Just take a look at my sweet, Lightning obsessed son, sleeping in his Lightning jammies, with his Lightning shoes on, and his Mater book right next to him. Way too precious!!!!!

Research

I spent most of yesterday doing research on a new washer and dryer. The old set has just past it's prime and isn't working well anymore. Who knew that there were SO many out there!! I have annoyed many people around me by asking me what kind they have, I have looked at the store, I have done MANY on-line searches... I think that I have settled on this
set. It will barely fit in my laundry room, but it seems to be the one that will do what I want. The washer is HUGE!!! It can wash enormous loads!!! It doesn't come in any other color but white, and I was disappointed in that, but I guess it doesn't really matter. The nice sales man at Sears was very surprised that I said that I loved doing laundry. His name was Patrick Power - what a cool name, huh! He got a kick out of Michael and Meredith. He was about 70 years old and nice as could be. So, I think we will go back tomorrow to make our purchase and the set should hopefully arrive by Friday. I'm going to have LOTS of laundry to try the new set out on, but I don't think that it would be very worthwhile to wash them in the old one since it isn't really getting anything clean. I'm really excited for Friday!! WHOO HOO!!

I wonder...

if I will someday forget what these days are like. I'm not wanting pity, I truly am just wondering if someday I won't remember and I won't empathize with those that have what I "used" to have. The days that you try to do your best at taking care of yourself, your home, your kids, your husband, their needs, the household, outside activities, church, job, friends, family, etc. the days when someone thinks that you didn't do enough or your weren't good enough. The days go by and the things that you thought you were going to get to (phone calls, emails, staying in touch with others) just don't get done. It isn't about not being considerate or forgetting or choosing not to do it. It's about just plain not getting to it. You want to - you thought you would, and you don't. It's about an interruption that you thought was going to take 5 minutes and ends up taking 25 minutes. It's about something not going as smoothly as you thought it was going to. At the end of the day you just have to realize that you can't do everything. The hours for today are gone. Some things will have to be left undone until tomorrow. And then what if tomorrow never gets here... someone will need to be understanding, and not so demanding, and more kind and more tolerant and so much less critical. I'm just wondering.