Why is everything so much harder with little kids???

So we are moved, but not as settled as we would like to be. Still surrounded by boxes and missing some things that I really need but we are here. Our phones work, our internet works and I can get back to work. I was so busy that I never really had the chance to miss working. This is hard for me to admit. I am afterall the one who was home working when my daughter was only a day old!

These past couple of weeks have been hard. I am so tired and can't seem to catch up on sleep or feel rested for even a day. All of the stuff to prepare for moving and then moving and then unpacking has been so much more than I ever expected. My kids were fantastic through all this, thanks to my mom who spent almost a week with us when she was sick. But it was not as simple as coming and going, missing a meal because the kitchen was not ready, and sleeping in because we were up so late packing boxes. I can't complain that much though - both kids have been amazing since we moved in. They love the new place, my son loves all the dirt!

I will finish getting settled and making an amazing studio where I can be creative in my own space. I will get rid of all the boxes, find a home for everything and look back a few months from now and wonder why I even complained - but until then I will be tired and scatterbrained! I will try to unpack with the kids around, work with them around and enjoy the summer. Hopefully having some fun along the way!!!

We are moving!

Grace Announcements will be closed from June 11th until June 21st so that we can move into our new studio. All orders placed during this time will be started after our return.

Thanks for your understanding - I promise to share photos of my new design studio once it is looking great!

Where is a mom's sick day???

It seems like I have been sick for about 5 weeks now. Just when I started feeling better from a horrible 3 week flu bug I got sick again, and this time it was a sinus infection. I really think I had the sinus stuff weeks ago as well, but I fought through it. Thankfully I am on antibiotics now. I am not a fan of taking drugs but I was getting desperate! I had been sick long enough, was not getting better, in fact I was getting worse. Moving in less than 2 weeks, have a week to the new place and a lot of work to do prior to moving everything over. I knew that I could not get away with ignoring this any longer or I would be much worse off. So I took myself to the clinic on the weekend, sat for hours waiting to be seen by a doctor to be told that I needed an antibiotic. I happily took the little piece of paper that was going to make me better, and proceeded to laugh at the doctors orders... "take this for the full 10 days and get lots of rest"... I told him I had 2 small kids at home and was moving in 2 weeks, he looked at me with these sad eyes like he knew I was in trouble!! So it comes to me, where is a "mom's" sick day? We work the hardest job (don't let any man tell you that his job is harder) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We have no 2 weeks of vacation, statutory holidays off, or sick days. We have to scrape our sorry butts out of bed each and every day whether we feel like it or not. We try to go to bed early to get a good nights sleep but that always seems to be the night that our kids won't allow it. We push through wanting to be taken out back and shot because we have to, we are MOM's and sometimes I think this world would not function without us!! Okay maybe that is a little much but forgive me I have been sick for over a month now :)