spring break is officially over

Wednesday, I ended up sitting outside instead of cleaning!

Thursday

• cleaned
• mail saga (see below)
• took lunch to the MR at work
• cleaned
• rested
• went to Emmaus send-off
• cleaned
• sent a few cards
  

Friday

• cleaned
• rested
• checked blogs
• will get back to cleaning
  

Saturday will be filled with...

• helping my sister move the rest (hopefully) of her stuff into her new house
• serving in several ways at the Emmaus Walk
  

Sunday will be the usual...

• 2 church services
• nap likely in the afternoon
• getting ready for the week
• small group and youth group
• dreading "back to school" after the kids (and teachers) have been out of the routine for a week!

Ok, so here's the stupid mail saga from Thursday...

I spent time during break writing thank yous and sending a few cards. Wednesday night, I put some in my mailbox to be picked up by mailman... Thursday as I was running a few errands, I realized I put 2 envelopes in the mailbox that I was going to hand-deliver. No addresses, no return addresses. I was hoping to beat the mailman back to my mailbox and retrieve them. No such luck! I went to the post office, hoping they would tell me that they could radio the mail truck and I could catch it before they got processed. Again, no such luck! They suggested that I literally try to find my mailman in the neighborhood and see if I could get them back. Sooooooo.....I randomly drove around my neighborhood, looking for the mailman. I found a mail truck, stopped and asked if he delivered on my street. You guessed it, no such luck! He used to do the route and gave me a suggestion as to where to look. I went around and around the area (which I don't know well), and you know the drill by now...no such luck! I was about to give up and I found another mail truck. I saw a female driver and knew my mail carrier is male...but I stopped anyway in case there was a sub or something. After giving me a strange look, she listened to my question, chuckled and offered another suggestion as to where to look. So, I took off again! More random searching. I got a bit of hope when I saw that mail hadn't been delivered on a street (the flags on a few boxes were up). Still...no such luck! Meanwhile, I was running late for taking lunch to the MR, so I gave up! I rewrote my notes (on not-as-perfect cards, mind you!) and will try again to hand deliver them! What a waste of time and stress!!!!! I should have just "let it go" from the beginning!!!! But...no such luck!!! ;)