The Catbird Seat

As I was preparing to write this “News Update” type of blog, I thought about everything that has transpired in my life lately.

Take a look at last week alone:

4 big illnesses (stomach bug/throwing up for Jane, Elizabeth and me; severe sore throat/upper respiratory infection for me)

10-hour drive to Orlando (and back) with Paul and the kids

Last minute bridesmaid dress alteration

Bellini accepts my “Baby Faces” art and I begin a consignment relationship with them

Framing and matting aforementioned art

Trip to the Board of Pharmacy and subsequent licensing (Praise God!)

4 hours online Continuing Education for aforementioned licensing

Finishing my newest artwork (called “Freedom”; it is a papercut rendering of dandelion seedlings blown away from the stem) and trying to find a matboard color that will do it justice

Writing and illustrating a children’s story for Johnny and Christy’s wedding (more on this later)

Fitting in a relaxing manicure and pedicure for Christy and me in preparation for the wedding

Participating in both the intimate and casual Friday night wedding ceremony and the formal and traditional wedding on Saturday

Catching up with my dearest and most beloved Orlando friends

Trying (unsuccessfully) to celebrate Paul’s birthday with presents that didn’t get bought and cake that did get eaten

Signing papers for the closing on our house that with God’s grace will happen tomorrow

Working two full 8-hour days in training as a Walgreens pharmacist

WHEW!

Add to that a whole host of run-of-the-mill responsibilities like washing clothes, checking mail and email, trips to the grocery store, etc., and you have one worn-out, run-down, wiped-out chick.

BUT.

Even though these events have required a monumental amount of energy (both emotional and physical) the passing of each one of them represents another step moving ahead.

And as I sit here at 6:32pm, listening to the sounds of the girls’ bath times with Daddy overseeing, I find myself feeling a little closer to “normal” than I did just a mere 8 hours ago.

And “closer to normal every day” is a relief and enough.

Enough until “closer to normal” just becomes “normal.”

I guess “normal” is just minutes and hours and days away.

[Sigh of relief.]

Which is closer than I thought.

Filed under: General, Catbird, Local Color, Random Thoughts on February 26th, 2007