Do you ever get that feeling like you just need a break? Well, by Thursday night I was there. I had had a long few days, with very little time to breath. The week went by so fast and I didn’t seem to accomplish as much as I would have liked. By Thursday night I was done.

Just as I was heading to bed Ray remembered that soccer sign-ups were on Friday evening. He then discovered that we needed copies of birth certificates and 1×1 photos for each of our three kiddos playing. Being the super unorganized mom that I am, I had only an idea as to where to find the birth certificates, but knew that I would need to take some head shots. I would deal with it tomorrow, I figured.

Well, tomorrow came. The morning seemed to go well, but I only seemed to have time for a shower, and rummaging through our piles of clean laundry to find clothes for everyone, before we needed to head out the door. I could hear that the kiddos were all good – and even had my older ones read to me as I was getting ready for the day – BUT, as I walked down the stairs, to gather a few things together for our day out, I remembered why I never leave my kiddos to themselves for more than a few minutes at a time – the entire downstairs was a disaster!

I wasn’t going to leave the house a mess, which meant we would be late yet again. Wonderful!

We finally joined our friends at the park, had a great day with our pals, and even spent some down-time at my sister’s house. I so needed it!

We made it home before Daddy and did our best to finish cleaning up. I started a post and even began to make spaghetti for dinner. Multi-tasking at it’s finest. Chaos, however, was waiting to rear it’s ugly head. Didn’t take long… I remembered about soccer sign-ups. Doh!

First I had to find the birth certificates. I sure hoped I had a copy of each of them. Our filing cabinet, with all of important documents, is kept in the guest room closet, conveniently packed in tightly with a desk and tons of boxes. Great place for the important stuff, huh? I couldn’t get the bottom drawer open – the one they had to be in – until we moved everything out, so I decided to finish getting a guest post ready to publish.

20 minutes and a door-less closet later… Daddy, Ethan, Zach and Julia were off for soccer sign-ups. The floor still needed to be swept, my post was just about ready to be published, and the pot of noodles was boiling when I got a call from Ray – he didn’t have the 1×1 pictures and they couldn’t sign up to play without them.

Since I haven’t printed pictures of my kiddos in almost three years, I knew I needed to print the pictures I took that day, but neither of my two printers would print pictures. When I finally got one of them to print, the picture was too small and wouldn’t work, so I went to take another one of each of them.

Then four things happened at once – My camera gave me a “card write protected” message, my computer screen went blank as I hit publish on my post, I couldn’t find a strainer for my noodles, and the babysitter arrived. Did I mention that this was a date night?

We finally got everything worked out for soccer sign-ups and Ray and I made it to dinner, but as far as I could tell From Dates to Diapers was gone. Believe me when I say that I was more than a little distraught, at this point. Was this a test? If it was, I had most certainly reached my breaking point and was proving weak.

And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. (2 Cor. 12:9)

I had forgotten Who was in control and on Whom I must lean.

I was more myself by the end of the night … The kiddos were signed up for soccer, I had spent some much-needed time with my hubby, and From Dates to Diapers was back.

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