Exhaustion....

This past week has been fairly quiet....but the previous few weeks is what brought on the exhaustion!

As you all know, I got back from Disney on Wednesday, April 9th. All was well. I was tired, but surviving and just trying to focus on getting some business done. What you probably don't know is that I had a birth client who was due on the 8th, but hadn't delivered yet...so I was still on call. A few crank calls from a guy named Chicco in the middle of the night while I was on call didn't help me get rest! LOL

The weekend passed quietly. I was working on the finishing touches for our MPix Midwest Conference that Shan and I were hosting from April 17th-20th about an hour from our place.

Then the week started....LOL

Monday night, my birth client, Jen, went into the hospital to start her induction since she was now a week overdue and the baby was showing little signs of coming out on her own any time soon. So Monday night, I recharged all my batteries and got ready for the next day.

Tuesday morning...I get the call from Brian, Jen's husband, so I head on up to the hospital so that I am there for this baby's entrance into the world. It was a long and hard labor for Jen that eventually ended in c-section, but I was determined to be there for it all. Tuesday ended up being a very long day for me...about 20 hours long!

Wednesday...I still had to find wedding dresses to put models in for our conference on the weekend, had a meeting with a bride and groom for an upcoming wedding and stopped back at the hospital to see Jen, Brian and baby Claire. (All of this is taking place about 45 minutes from my house!) I still had to pack everything for the weekend and to top it off...I still had not babysitter for the weekend! Talk about stress! We finally conceded that our only option for babysitting would be for Shan to drive the kids to his Mom's in KY after Ian got out of school on Thursday and then drive back for the conference that same day.

Thursday...I took Ian to school. Tried to finish up laundry so that we would have clothes for the weekend and worked on getting all the finishing touches ready for the conference which was scheduled to start that night. I packed a suitcase for the boys, kissed Shan and sent him to get Ian at school to start the 4 hour trip to KY. Shan took the boys to KY and didn't end up getting back up to the conference location until 11:30pm that night. I packed everything for the conference and was on my way....but I had to make a stop at the hospital to do the Day 2 pics of Claire. Then I was on to the conference.

The weekend went by fast and we averaged about 4 hours of sleep a night. Saturday night we only got about 2 1/2 hours of sleep because we were up most of the night tallying up the print competition results. (Over 800 score cards that we had to count!)

After the conference ended at Noon on Sunday, Shan and I drove to our storage unit to drop off the equipment that we don't keep at home, stopped at home to drop off more equipment and stuff, and then immediately got on the road to KY to pick up the boys. We were so tired on the way down that I had to get off the highway to keep from falling asleep at the wheel!

We stayed Sunday night at Shan's Mom's house and left late on Monday to come home.

So I have spent the last few days just trying to recover from the madness of last week. It was a great week, but it definitely wore me out! I'm getting too old for this! LOL

So forgive me for not blogging. I still need to put up images from Claire's birth and from the conference, but I just haven't had it in me. Maybe next week I will feel up to it!

For now...I just need to rest! LOL

Steph