**crickets**

Ummm... about that blogging every day for a year thing? Yeah, forget that.

I said then that I tend to focus on the positive here, while when I journal I whine a little too much. The problem is, there were too many difficult things going on that I just couldn't blog about. What I needed was silence and no pressure to be cheerful- everything I tried to post seemed so fake, even though it was the truth (it's difficult to explain...)

Things are a little better, though (very) far from perfect, and we still have quite a bit of stress every day. I feel the need now, though, to start focusing on the positive again (but that doesn't mean blogging every day :-).

Things rambling around in my head:

~ summer's almost here! We're making plans, and looking forward to our vacation at the cottage (which, sadly, may end up being our last- more on that later)

~ Gracie will soon be fourteen (how did that happen??)

~ we're wrapping up our spring term (it was very successful)

~ the farmer's market will open Friday! Shmoo says that her tummy grumbles are saying, "strawberries, strawberries, strawberries..."

~ our de-cluttering project went bust under all of the stress (we barely managed to keep up with our regular cleaning and tidying), so we'll be working hard from now until the end of August to catch up. The Boy's room is done, the garage had it's spring 'airing', it's only everything else that needs doing (eep)

~ we're polishing up plans for next school year (Gracie will be in ninth grade, so we're also roughing out the following four years)

~ and so much more. I'm having a difficult time keeping my ADD tendencies under control these days. I'll be taking some Mommy Time this weekend (while Hubby takes the kids out for Sporty Time) to get my many plans, ideas, and projects sorted out.

I love planning. Just thought I'd share that ;-)