Crazy!

I am just crazy right now. I almost don't know what to do with myself. I was in Kansas City last week with a bunch of crazy, screaming scrapbook ladies and now I'm off to Fin and Feather tomorrow for a local scrapbook retreat. Then, we leave on Thursday for Europe. Can you believe it? Thursday already. I can't! It seems like just yesterday we were starting to plan, and that was way back in February! Plus, I taught Monday, Wednesday, and today, and I have a half day Monday and a full day Tuesday. Yikes! My allergies are crazy bad - I'm miserable, and the puppies have to go to the vet before they go to the groomer's tomorrow to get all prettied up for their vacation at Bob's house while we're gone. Plus, I really wanted to enter Arctic Frog's design team contest, but it's due by midnight the 17th and Cactus Pink's which is the 17th (and don't even think I've started wither yet). Sometime I have get us packed and make sure we've purchased all of our last minute doo dads. I really wanted to get Chris' iPod before we leave, but it may not happen. Did I mention OH MY?

None of it really matters, though. In one week, seven little days, Chris and I are going to be heading off on a European adventure and we're going to love it. We're going to drink beer from liter mugs served by barmaids in traditional Bavarian dress and taste wine along the cliffs of the Italian riviera and stand in the shadow of David in Florenece and dream of what it was like to live alongside Caesar in Rome and be all romantic and lovey-dovey as we're paddled down the Grand Canal by a gondolier in Venice. I can not wait. Not one minute. Every day is counted as a day closer to leaving. I think Chris just doesn't think about it because he might explode from excitement. We are so very blessed. Not a few hours drive away, there are people with nothing. No earthly possessions, and here we are getting ready for our trip to Europe. I almost feel guilty that we're spending so much money on this trip when there are so many with nothing. But, we can't not go. So, the excitement grows!