No time for Blogging

I promise pictures for Jodi and details for Nicole but I had to share some quick thoughts. I can't tell you how many times I pulled the camera out this week and said, "we have to take a picture so we can blog about this." But then, the reality is that I'm too busy doing the things I say I will blog about, to find the time to actually blog about them. So here is the quick list of obsessions and business for the week: picking 12 pounds of fresh raspberries, making 2 1/2 batches of fresh raspberry jam, making one sample batch of Raspberry White Chocolate Almond Blondies for Isabelle to enter into a baking competition, making three different kinds of Peach-Raspberry tart/pies to decide what I'm going to enter into the bake-off, buying: 2 cantaloupes, one pineapple, one BIG box of peaches, four pounds of black grapes, 5 pounds of strawberries, 2 pounds of champagne grapes, 3 mangoes, 7 bananas, 12 pounds of raspberries, and 1 pound of cashews just so we'll have choices to play with in our new blender!! Which brings me to our next obsession, Chris' new BlendTec blender (more about that in a different post!) and Smoothies! Not to mention, just this week I added 3-6 new piano students, I have a new calling, and I just agreed to be the Room Mom in Abby's class. I've been making craft samples for Super Saturday, along with some extra projects for myself. I've been working on designing another Halloween wallhanging to work on with some women in my ward. I'm batting around the idea of finishing Abby and Claire's quilts for their birthdays (in less than a month) and possibly decorating their whole room... I'm starting to think about Christmas projects and gifts, and have started conspiring and working on our annual Halloween party too. Just today, I've done three loads of dishes and ignored that many loads of laundry. I threw a party for Zach's second birthday, washed my van inside and out, caught up on the second season of 30Rock, and last season of Eli Stone, helped my kids with their homework, watched neighbor's kids, tried a few new recipes and made up a few of my own, enjoyed the Onion Days carnival last night, played an all night game with Chris and some friends, ran too many errands, and arranged some food storage stock up, I've been making good use of the fresh veggies from ours and others gardens, and even shared loaves of Zucchini Bread with our new neighbors from the 3 batches I made (now I've got big plans to learn how to can peaches and spaghetti sauce), and I still managed to keep my house clean, and take care of Chris, our cats, and our four brilliant kids! Hopefully this next week will be more productive! And yes, I will try to find time for some pictures...