These last 5 days have been very busy. I'd say I need a break, but I know I'm not going to get one.
It started with a busy day of errands and other such matters last Wednesday. Continued Thursday and Friday with the trips to Pittsburgh, Saturday with Keith's 30th birthday party and Sunday with a drive to Cleveland to see a football game. Today I'm back to work and I feel like I need a nap, despite the fact that it's not even noon.
I know this week is going to be equally as crazy. Today is Keith's actual birthday, so we'll do dinner. Then we'll go home and carve pumpkins. Tomorrow is Halloween. Even though I'm still debating whether or not to take Autumn trick-or-treating, it's still an evening of waiting by the door with a bowl of treats.
The remainder of free time this week will be spent getting my house ready for guests for Autumn's birthday party. It will be spent cleaning places that normally we don't think to clean. We'll pack up little treat sacks for the kids. We'll talk to the fire department about renting tables. We'll plan out food. We'll wrap up a few presents. I'll bake a cake in a Mickey Mouse pan and painstakingly decorate it to actually look like Mickey Mouse.
It will not be a fun week.
But come Sunday, it will be fun to have our family and a few close friends with us to celebrate Autumn. She'll eat some cake and make a huge mess. She'll open presents and probably will want to stop and play with each thing. She'll bat around balloons and she'll love her Mickey cake.
And it will all be worth it.