Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Preparing to Hibernate

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

21 June 2008

Preparing to Hibernate

Hello all my blog-reading friends!

I will be a little bit absent over the next fortnight. This is because I am doing a mad scramble to prepare everything I need to prepare for Kids Games. It will be big, it will be exhausting, but for the kids, it will be fun.

For me though, it will push me as close to the edge as it can. I am finding this sort of preparation with two very active kids extremely difficult. Some Mums can do it. They can organise awesome kids ministry, both ongoing and one-off programs while shepherding two small kids and balancing a baby on their hips. I am not that woman.

So hey. If you're a praying person: I will need prayer! If you're not, spare a thought for me as I scramble around for the fortnight. I'll drop in on and off, and I'll be back more regularly later.

Hey - have you seen this?

5 comments:

Aunt Debbi/kurts mom said...: Okay, I get it. This is your version of our vaction bible school. The cartoon was a riot.; 21 June, 2008 14:24
musingwoman said...: Always good to know one's limits! and that cartoon's a hoot. :); 22 June, 2008 01:54
Nauntie Lush said...: I pray that you survive, and come back with many many hysterical stories to tell! I am also glad that I am not the only mum who is in awe of those "together" ones, but okay with the fact that I am not one of them!; 22 June, 2008 07:59
Staci Loalbo said...: good luck!! BTW thanks for the comments on my site, i love new friends!!!

ill be back; 22 June, 2008 13:21
anymommy said...: That cartoon is hilarious. Good luck with your kids' event.; 23 June, 2008 13:39

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In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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21 June 2008

Preparing to Hibernate

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