Tears

I’m so tired. 

I’m tired of being home. I’m tired of not seeing my friends and family. I’m tired of not having anything to look forward to. I’m tired of seeing my kids ALL DAY EVERY DAY. I’m tired of being grubby all the time and not having any real reason to get ready. I’m tired of this feeling. I’m tired of feeling mostly sad all day without my friends. 

I’m such an extrovert. This quarantine mess has really got me down. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not depressed. But this is for the birds. I need my girlfriends. I need my mama. I need my Mexican food!!!

I need reasons to go somewhere “essential.”  If I don’t start getting out of this house regularly there will be more tears. Today at lunch I was draining the goop off the top of my dip...you know, when it’s already been opened and there’s goop on top. I tipped my French onion dip over the sink to drain it and the whole dang tub of dip plopped into the sink. 

😭😭😭😭😭

I for real cried. I’m not even sorry about it. It’s not just that my dip fell in the sink, I salvaged what I could and ate it with lunch. It’s just everything,  you know. It’s so hard to keep the kids away from the neighbors. It’s so hard to be here for them to talk to NON STOP all day. It’s so hard to feed them sooooo many times a day, a week?! Gosh the food. 

It’s just hard. So I cried. It doesn’t seem like it’s gonna get better anytime soon either. So if you’re out there crying too, just know you’re not alone. 

Easter sure is different this year. But I know Sunday’s still coming...and Jesus is alive!!! 

4th of July

We celebrated the 4th of July in ALL American style! We went to Sonic for a bacon cheddar pretzel dog....and might I say it was incredibly yummy!! 

Look at our family picture! Aren't we so patriotic?! I LOVE this picture!

After our pretzel dogs we went up to the "Pupcake place" in Morganton. Lincoln LOVES it up there! It's actually called My Local Bakery and the pupcakes are to die for! Lincoln had a strawberry cream cheese cupcake, Anthony had a double vanilla cupcake, and mine was peach mango. Yummy. Sad I didn't take some pictures of our goodness!

Aren't they beautiful?! *Sigh*

To top off our All American day we bought some of our own fireworks. With the HUGE amounts of rain we've had there wasn't really a great option for fireworks. So we bought our own! Of course in North Carolina there are SOOO many restrictions on fireworks and it leaves very little in the way of choice. But there were some super fun fountains that Lincoln really liked. Aspen, not so much!

 He loved his sparklers!

Sissy wasn't so sure about this stuff. She managed with the sparkler, but really didn't like the firework fountains at all! We timed this just perfectly too...immediately after we were finished there came a HUGE rain storm! But, that's the norm around here these days!