Resurrection From Independance Day

Why is it that holidays always completely exhaust me? When I was a kid they didn’t….and there was way more activity back then. But now it’s like they completely drain me of every miniscule bit of energy that I have. So wrong.

Today is my official resurrection from the 4th of July. Today I finally feel like myself again. Today I am ready to take on the world…and DOMINATE IT!

Now I just want to figure out exactly what put me into a state that made today my resurrection day…

Did I consume far too much alcohol? Nope. In fact I never even got myself together to make that lovely little sangria that I was dying to have.

Did I over do it on the sweets? Again, NOPE. In fact the only sweets that I had from the 4th-5th was a dark chocolate Kit-Kat bar (which is now a new favorite) and a dark chocolate chip java frappe that I made myself. Talk about a shocker…no ice cream, cake, cookies…nothing else.

Did I do something completely out of character…like hiking up the mountains of Lake Tahoe? No way! There’s still too much of a fear of running into a mountain lion, snake or bear for me to do that. (I know, I’m completely ridiculous)

The only thing that I can come up with is that knowing all of what has to happen to make all of what has to happen happen is what completely drains me. And if I took the time to make the checklist, then perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad…or perhaps I would end up writing down even more than what I have planned to do. Yeah, the latter is probably why I don’t make those checklists.

Even Charming is zonked. And he did the prep work of our grill and smoker, the prep for the ribs and putting together half of the kabobs. So all I had to do there was just get the chicken ones put together for myself and mother-in-law. Which wasn’t hard, just time consuming…so I can’t blame my exhaustion on that. And just look at those ribs! Didn’t he do a great job?! I’m dying to get my hands on some more right now. AND we have kabobs galore for tonight’s dinner too.

Maybe God just wants us to relax a little bit more? Could be the reason…could be just an excuse. All I know is that for two days I felt completely out of it…thank God that it’s over! Next year, we won’t be doing so many kabobs, I’ll start my prep work early by getting way more sleep, keep the kiddles busy with a Slip-N-Slide or some other wacky water toy…and utilize my ice cream maker. Now, on to the rest of the year!

I think that one of the things that I’ll always remember about this Independence Day celebration is that while we took the time to go see the Star Spangled Sparks Fireworks put on at the Sparks Marina (which neighbors Reno), and sat in the “trunk” of our Sorento watching them as the kiddles played with everything else and ignored them, I somehow ended up cleaning up a pee-pee spill (from our little Potette Plus) while the grand finale was going on. Not the grand finale that I was hoping to experience.