Bombarded...

Bombarded\ v. to assail vigorously.

Have you ever been bombarded?
Have you ever felt that no matter how hard you tried to please everyone you couldn't.
I'm not saying that it's possible to please everyone, I'm smarter than that.
But I can try my hardest can't I?

Well Bud & I were bombarded this afternoon.
With the holidays fast approaching and to do lists growing exponentially this afternoons attack was unexpected.
About a year ago we told the family we would come visit for Christmas.
All we wanted for Christmas was all the family under one roof at my Mother-in-laws.
We wanted my mother-in-law and her husband, my mother & her husband, my father-in-law and his wife, my youngest brother-in-law, and my oldest brother-in-law and his wife to all get together for Christmas.

Well it's dwindled down to My mother-in-law, her husband, my youngest brother-in-law, my mother & her husband.  So about 50%.  Okay.  We can live with this.

The problem with both of us having divorced parents is that it's havoc trying to see everyone.
That is why when we moved to Texas 4-1/2 years ago, we told the family that if they wanted to spend the holidays with us, they would have to come visit us.
You may think that sounds harsh, but because it's impossible to appease everyone's desire to see us when we DO visit, we had to set this rule for our sanity.
Bringing us back to this year.
We are about to embark on a journey that when we complete it we will be stronger because of it (I hope)!

Today my mother called asking for additional details about our trip.
I didn't have answers yet.
Apparently, Bud had already thought of how the 6 days would go, but somehow we didn't communicate this game plan (He may have mentioned it, I may have forgotten, who knows what happened).
Needless to say when I got another phone call asking what the plans were from my mother-in-law I felt bombarded (it's not her or my mother's fault).
I felt like I was going crazy.
Oh and let me clarify, I seriously have the best in-laws a girl could have.  I love my extended family.  The blitz attack was more of an emotional one, because I felt bombarded and un-prepared WHICH if you know me is uncharacteristic of myself (pssst....I'm a planner)!
We have done our best to divide the time amongst the parents as equally as we can and that is the best we can do.

I know that there are some hurt feelings and I know that no matter what people will feel like they didn't get enough time with us.
I'm sorry for this.
We are doing the best we can in the short time we have.
Besides seeing the family, the best part about this Christmas is that we FINALLY will be able to tell everyone where we are moving to after Bud commissions!

In the moving truck when we moved from KS to TX!

We have been holding onto this secret for months and I'm ready to let the cat out of the bag.

Sorry if this post was a little stressful to read.
Sorry if I didn't convey my feelings properly.
Again, I love my family and Bud's family deeply.
I'm excited to see everyone.
I'm excited to share our secret destination.
And now I'm exhausted, because like I said....that To Do List seems to be growing each day!

I hope you have/had a Blessed Thursday