August 22, 2017

Today was my first board meeting as the PTA president.  It was a lot of work to get ready for it.  I really wanted it to go well.  I had to sit at the head of the table with about 12 board members sitting around.  The Principal and two vice principals were there too.  I was more nervous than I thought I would be.  We had a lot to plan, a lot to go over, and a lot for me to manage.  When it was all over, I had met all of my goals and filled all of the major board positions.  I was relieved and ready to take a breath.

I came back to pick up Owen and Lance from my neighbor Katie's house.  I had been so nervous to leave Lance, thinking that he would totally freak out.  But he was so cute, walking straight into their house and saying, "C'mon, Owen!"  (Except he says, O-Yen!  It is so adorable.  He LOVES Owen so much.)  Ironically, Lance cried SO hard when I made him come back home.  He cried for 45 minutes to go back to his friend's house.  When I got him out of the car, he tried to run down the driveway.  It was really sad.  :(  But I was so happy that he had a fun time.  And I was really grateful to my friend, Katie for watching the boys.

There's just so much to do.

I had a surreal moment in the afternoon.  You know when you are thinking of moving into a house?  And you walk around and say, "This is where I'll stand and make dinner, and this is where I'll look out the window and see the kids playing, and this is where I'll have one kid doing homework, and another one will be upstairs at the computer doing homework..."?  Well, in the late afternoon I had Miles and Julia at two different computers working on homework; Greg was playing with the boys on the family room floor; I was standing at the counter counter cutting up peppers and onions for fajitas; I had a beautiful view out the back windows of the yard and pool.  I just stopped and realized that everything I ever dreamed of--family life, motherhood--it's all my reality.  Even the cliche-ness of being the PTA president.  My life is full of carpools and after school snacks and high school sports and homework.  I feel like I've hardly been able to keep up lately, but I'm just so grateful to be living my dream.