wouldn't you know it

After a gorgeous, warm, extended fall and the most mild winter I can ever remember experiencing in my lifetime we got some snow.  Bismarck didn't get a whole lot (maybe a few inches blown around into drifts here and there) but there was quite a bit that fell all around the state.  Unfortunately, the snow and wind is supposed to come raring back again this week and it's not going to be pretty.  Looking at the big picture, the weather is still not that bad or that big of a deal except when the one and only time this whole freaking winter that I was going to be going anywhere that required major, multi-city travel is the week that we have winter storm warnings and blizzard watches lasting 3 days (past the estimated day of departure).  Now it's time to scrammble because we leave tomorrow instead of Wednesday. 

I know, I know, it's terrible that I have to spend an extra day in sunny Mexico and away from work.  Believer me, I am NOT complaining about that.  What I am freaking out about right now is that poor Jake has to work tomorrow (the only day he has to work while I'm gone) and now has to go in an hour later than normal so that he can take the kids to daycare because I leave way before they can go and because he now has another day of single parenting to handle.  I haven't packed yet and the box with my bathing suits is still in storage somewhere, Cayden has swimming lessons tonight and I have a hair appointment to get rid of the gross orange color my hair turned after I got it colored a week ago and I can't leave work early today because I have a meeting from 4-5.  That leaves me a small, less than 2 hour window of opportunity to find my box of clothes in the storage unit, get all of my laundry finished, and get completely packed and ready to be picked up at 10 after 6 tomorrow morning.  Yes, I am FREAKING OUT!

So here's to my wonderful (all expenses paid, by the way) trip to Mexico with my Mom, my AMAZING husband for staying home with the kids (yeah, I owe him BIG) so I can go and relax and to the winter storm that's supposed to blow through here this week that's putting me into such a panic that I need a vacation.