Today was a beast

Some days are just HARD days. 

It probably has to do with reacclimating to life back in America ... back to life as a Mom, with a farm, and responsibilities, and kids with a lot of questions. 

I'm going to guess that a non-homeschooling Mom answers about five questions a day per child. I think homeschool Mamas answer closer to 15. The questions that would be asked at school, are asked at home. And this means that times 4 kids, I am answering 60 questions a day. 

And that doesn't count the other things that come up.

For example, today, the guests in "The Bonnie Blue Farmhouse" AirB&B that I manage, left the water running in a sink, accidentally. And the sink did runneth over. And there was water, everywhere. 

I have a lovely 23-year-old Mom of a new baby named Connie who is helping clean the AirB&B and she handled most of it, but still. Now I've got to find a time to figure out what was damaged and go back over and get all that figured out. 

I don't want to!

The day was busy. All of these things were wonderful albeit they contributed to my very full day. 

Jacob stopped over today. And it's always wonderful to see him. 

And my Aunt Jan stopped over, and it's great to see her too.

And little Pomegranate was cooking stuff for a bake sale and so I needed to her with those things. 

And there was church of course. 

And I left a laptop at a friend's house and had to go back and retrieve it. (That part wasn't so wonderful, but I got to see my friend which was wonderful!)

And I needed to figure out dinner. 

All of these things are normal, awesome, wonderful parts of life, but they just add up. 

And my friend Erin did something AMAZZzzzzzing. She stumbled upon a HUGE HUGE HUGE sale on dog food at a Petsmart in Johnson City and she bought the whole lot for me. What an amazing friend. 

I also just miss JB. I'm not used to him being gone after getting to spend almost a week just with him in the Rain forest. 

He texted me, and it was a very hard day at work for him emotionally. I sometimes can't fathom what he does for a living and how hard things are. 

Tomorrow is a co-op day which is always exhausting. But also wonderful. 

So much hard and busy and BIG in the midst of so much wonderful!

Oh, and did I mention that I have TONS of laundry on my bed that's got to be put away.