you know you're tired when.....you pass out in a swing.  poor little harper fell fast asleep the other day in the swing at the park.  i don't mean just lightly napping either.  i mean out cold.  she went from this.....


to this...


to this...


and she's out.  i carried her the whole way home and she never even blinked.  that's tired.


this has been a rough couple of weeks for our little family and this week is our hardest one of the year so please bear with me.  i feel exactly like my little one looks...exhausted.  wiped out.  burnt out.  you name it....we are pooped.  we are ready for daddy to be home again and to be a somewhat normal family.  this tax season has felt so hard and long.  i think coming right off his studies/full time work and then straight into tax season has made it feel double the length.  plus as soon as tax season is over next week he starts another course and then it's massive study time for 2 1/2 months before he writes his big exam.  i keep finding myself longing for it to be fall and for this to all be over but at the same time i don't want the girls to get older, i don't want the summer to pass without basking in the sunshine holding my hubbies hand and listening to the girls laughter.

i know he's just as exhausted as i am so we're just trying to hold it together till next week but man has it been hard.  i don't know how he does it and i don't know how i do it.  no tips here..lol.  i'm hanging on by a thread this week ladies :)  i feel like each week that goes by i'm just fighting to hold on to  my beans and stay true to who i am before i get lost in the giant pile of what used to be 4 loads of laundry and is now 6 on my bed.  i'm fighting off the "green eyed monster" (aka berenstain bears..lol) & the longing to be one of those families whose hubby leaves at 9 and comes home at 5 and they have the weekends all together.  i long for those days and can't wait till that's our house.  it would sure be nice to not cry over chores and the overwhelmingness of it all.  being a mom is sure hard some days peeps...lol.  i think i need a vacay..lol.  anyone care to join me?  i'd love the company :)

ok enough whining....sorry for my whoa-is-me fest today but it's one of those mornings when things seem harder than i know they are so in order to cheer myself up i've got a giveaway for you all tomorrow and hopefully a new tutorial on thursday!  yay!!!!  plus i'm knitting up a storm and working on sewing up some custom orders too!  so fun! 

the sun is shining here and i've got a little girl beside me just itching to play so this momma is going to go enjoy the morning.  i hope you all had a wonderful weekend and thank you all so much for your sweet birthday wishes for my 5 year old! she had a wonderful bday weekend!

are any of you "hanging on by a thread" this week?  do you have partner whose schedule is really hard?  how do you deal with it?  how do you balance it all out and still stay you amongst the chaos?  are any of you a "tax widow"? i'd love to hear from you <3