Too much going on

wow, is it really November 16th? Apparently, according to Cheryl Citizen, I too am a blog nazi. I suck at being consistent... there's always so much on my mind that I don't want to take the time to type it all in.

Brent's been in California since Sunday night, and home tomorrow afternoon. In that time, I have done much. Just to name a few: sent a sample of our salsa to Wal-Mart Corporate (that could be huge and scary!), went looking at new houses with my mom (LOVE doing that!), drank lots of Chai tea, read lots of books with Ryan, read my friend Tera H.'s blog tonight and couldn't stop crying and praying, spent lots of extra fun time with our boys to help them (and me) deal with the fact that daddy's away for 4 days, spent fun quality time with my parents, spent many o' hours on the business phone contacting new customers, and some old, following up with current customers, worked on hiring 2-3 additional part timers to work salsa with us, read zero books myself (bad bad bad), plus the daily stuff like laundry, dishes, getting kids to and from school, cleaning, etc, etc, etc.

I'm sampling salsa at our Costco 10 days between now and New Year's Eve. That's a lot of demo salsa! Not to mention the thousands of pounds, literally, Costco will be going through in the next 1.5 months. I love sampling... I get to be out, visiting with people, sharing a wonderful salsa with customers... it is seriously a lot of fun!

It's late, of course, and I really should get some sleep. This morning, I shut my alarm off, THEN hit snooze... see the problem with this? Needless to say, we were up 1/2 hour late this morning, which makes getting Bryce ready for school not so fun. He doesn't understand the true meaning of "hurry" and must think that it's just a word that I like to say every morning, but must not have an actual meaning. Ugh, that adorable little kid is a slow mover. Ryan isn't much better. Lucky for them, they're cute (and very tender in my heart). Bryce loves that I let him sleep with me when Brent's out of town. So, I'm going to go snuggle with my little buddy and get some sleep. I now have 2 separate alarm clocks set so I have a better chance of getting up on time tomorrow. Let's just say that don't exactly think straight when I'm waking up in the mornings.

Tera, if you're reading this... I love you girl. Your family and most dearly, your mom, are in my prayers. Please update your blog as often as you can... I imagine that's not the easiest thing to concentrate on during such an emotional time. But please, when you have a moment and can handle jotting down how you're all doing, it helps us reading it to pray for specifics. We love you, and we pray for you.

Peace to all of you...

Tari