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Not only did I forget until Friday of last week that this week is my kids’ Spring Break but it is also Easter Week or Holy Week. Just add that to the bad mommy column…I swear that column is MILES long. There has been no fun and frolicking and travel planned for this Spring break this year because (a) I forgot all about Spring break and (b) there is little money for extras like frolicking and travel when one is selling things like the hated motorcycle just to keep paying the mortgage. For the record, as much as I hated that motorcycle, I would never tell him to sell it. It was his idea because my darling husband remains unemployed, I remains grossly under-employed and yet we still have that damn mortgage to pay to the financial institution that got bailed out by Dubya…

Where was I?

Oh yeah, no frolicking and travel for our family circus this Spring break. But we still have managed to have some fun…hurray for the dollar theater movies, sleep-overs, hanging out with friends and rented dvd’s that have arrived this week in the mail. And with an ironic twist, the two dvd’s that came were Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. I swear that I did not plan it. It just happened that way. Pretty cool, I think.

This evening I curled up in the living room with my favorite little grand girl and watched Godspell. Actually, we sang along, clapped our hands and perhaps danced just a little. Yes, I am that patron of the arts who sings along. It seems to be an inherited trait since Hazel sang along with me with just as much joyful feeling even if it was in her own special toddler-ese native language. If only the real world was like that where we go about our day to day lives, skipping along and suddenly we break out into song…if only. Are you listening, dear Lord? That’s #1.

I could pray for this suck-ass economic situation to end now so that Bill and I both will be bringing home full paychecks but it seems just a little selfish at this very moment when I read this. Prayer #2 is for Califmom’s family.

And prayer #3? Well dear Lord, now I will pray for a change, a change in how we pay the bills here under the Big Top because there isn’t anything left to sell to pay that mortgage. Oh, and I am scheduled to work this weekend. Hopefully I won’t get canceled and hopefully you’ll forgive me if I’m not in church because I am working.

Originally posted on Adventures in Juggling, my blog about my life here under my own personal Big Top where I juggle a busy life with 5 kids at all ages and stages, a husband, a career as a NICU RN, spoiling my amazing grandbaby girl and singing along with musicals.