Lazy Day

Days like today really make me stop and count my blessings. I woke up this morning to my desktop being corrupted and all my setting removed. Not only that, but I had no pictures in the my pictures folder. I normally do not keep pictures in that folder because it slows down the computer and takes up a lot of space on my C drive. Mind you when I upload it's not a few pictures it's anywhere from 1500 to 3500 at a time. The day we left to go camping I quickly emptied my memory stick on my Canon which had the end of our Texas trip through the 4th of November. Naturally waking up to 0 pictures in the folder I know I put my Canon pictures in upset me a ton. I was actually tearing up as I was frantically searching every drive and folder on my computer. I even went under Paul's log in in hopes of being able to access my folders and drives. No luck whats so ever. LUCKILY my dad is a computer guru. I called him and he walked me through how to go in to drives directly through windows bypassing the desktop. I tell you without my dad and mom I have no idea what I would do sometimes. It's sad I still depend on them so much at my age but they are great what can I say. LOVE YOU MOM AND DAD!!!! Anyways, I was able to find all of my pictures and move them over to my external. So once the kids go down I will finish updating and adding some much needed pictures to this blog.

After waking up to that I had to leave the house to get my mind off of everything I almost lost. I know they are only pictures but for me those are my memories. I don't print off pictures for us, so knowing I might have forever lost JP making silly faces with my mom, my dad reading to Kailee, Chris being attacked by my kids, the kids dressed up at Halloween, sliding at the park, or hugs and kisses from daddy once home from Texas just made me super sad. So I loaded the kids up in the car and off we went to run some errands. It was really close to Justin's nap time so I knew my time was limited. I just didn't know how limited it was....We made it to Ross just to scope out Christmas gift prospectives and made it back to the car to head to Target when the meltdowns started. Justin was hungry and overly tired and Kailee well she was just not like her normal up for shopping self. Thankfully they started in the car and not in the middle of the store. LOL Once home Justin immediately went down and Kailee and I spent some time together dancing to The Fresh Beat Band. Then Kailee and I decided to start on dinner. I have been wanting chillie for the longest so I decided to make a big pot and take it up to Paul at the station.
Justin woke up ready to go so the kids and I loaded up and went to the station. We had our dinner with Paul and made it home with enough time for a bath and more dancing. As a matter of fact the kids are dancing and singing along to the FBB as I sit here typing this entry.

Sometimes life can get super busy or even overwhelming during the holiday season, or I know for me it can. So for the month of November I'm going to make an extra point to slow down, count my blessings, and remember family is what makes life.