October 29, 2023 - Sunday


CT was as crazy as I predicted. I'm getting real sick of people not showing up for their shifts! Obviously, people get sick and their kids get sick and family comes into town and on and on. I get all of that and I never make my volunteers feel bad for having to miss a week for something like that. What I'm tired of is people just not showing up. Like, no call, no show, I'm screwed over kind of situation. I can't find a replacement, I can't get any help at this point, I'm just on my own. And I don't want to throw Anne into this, but she is supposed to be there in time to actually HELP OUT in the mornings, but she's showing up later than most of the kids and parents! I don't feel like I can even talk to her about it though, because she is overwhelmed most of the time and it's not like I have replacements lined up at the door to show up to CT every single Sunday and help Oasis for FREE. So when I don't have a booth worker (cough cough no call no show AGAIN), and I don't have an extra aide like Leslie or Sarah, and it's just me up front, and I need to be doing 20 other things, I'm swamped and drowning and starting things off very frustrated. Let's just add to this that I'm supposed to be doing classroom evals at this point, but I never can because I'm so short on volunteers every week. I honestly feel like crying just typing this out. Maybe I should recruit another couple of volunteers to help at the front? I just don't know. I can usually manage fine, but the evals have me stressing out. I'm supposed to do all of the classrooms by the new year. That is 7 more Sundays to evaluate 7 classes. There is NO FREAKING WAY I'll be staffed heavily enough to disappear for the entire morning every single week for the next two months. *deep breaths* It'll be ok. The trick or treating portion of the morning actually went really well, thankfully! It was relatively organized, we didn't run out of candy, I had sufficient volunteers to pass out candy, Ben wasn't there to rush me, and fun was had by all. Whew!

We were home for a couple of hours and I got everyone bathed and dressed in their nice, picture-taking clothes, and then we headed out for our family pictures!!! Yay! Brit captured us in all of our grumpy, annoying each other, dancing like fools glory. Can't wait to see how they turn out!

We stopped at Bob Evans for dinner on the way home. All the kids ate (woohoo!) and Ben complained about the cost...but what else is new? I ended up being pissed at him when we got home because he complained that I was washing the sheets when he wanted to take another nap...you know, rather than doing ANY of the DOZENS of things that need to be done around the house. Like, you were gone ALL weekend having fun while I took care of the kids. Do you not think I'D like to lay down and relax??? However, I kept my mouth shut, did my cleaning, laundry, dishes, and school prep, and let it go. I am incredibly grateful that he went. There's nothing I want more for my husband than spiritual growth and I believe part of that is having strong, wise, spiritually like-minded friends. It's awesome that he went. I would have liked if he had come home prepared to parent and adult though, rather than needing a full day to recuperate. 

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