My Wingmen!

Everyone needs a good wingman! Yesterday I had 8.

A wingman (or wingmate) is a pilot who supports another in a potentially dangerous environment. The idea behind the wingman is to add the element of mutual support. A wingman makes the pilot both offensively and defensively more capable.

I woke up with a busy day ahead but then got an email from my co-committee chair for the Holiday store at school that she had left town and all the fliers, envelopes and advertising was not done and was left up to me. I went into full panic mode. It all needed to be done yesterday and I couldn't see how I could possibly pull it off.........enter wingman #1 My Sister Leslie (so awesome!) She called me first thing in the morning and said what can I do? I told her the situation and sure enough she said "no problem, I am on it....just leave all the paper work to me". While I ran errands and worked with the school on scheduling, she designed all the fliers, handouts and envelopes and within 2 hours had them all emailed to me. They were amazing.

My awesome sister!

Then I had to shop for additional items for the store. This was a huge undertaking and I knew it would be long and I would have a car full of merchandise from the dollar store.....enter wingman #2 Karen. She just happened to call and when I told her what was happening she said. "Oh bring Ava over here, she can play with Livy and then I will take her to school. I was able to shop without any worries, deadlines or children.....priceless!! 3hours later and $1200.000 poorer I was done. Whew!

I went home to begin printing......whadda ya know my printer wouldn't work. I knew I could take them to kinkos but I had to pick the girls up from school....I quickly called Karen (yes, wingman #2 again, and my friend Tana (Wingman #3) and they each agreed to pick up my older girls, who are at different schools. I took all the files to Kinkos and had them printed the only glitch is they couldn't print on envelopes so we had to print labels that would go on the envelopes. I got it all done and headed home.

At this point I had not even cleaned up breakfast. I headed home dreading what I would find. But!!!! Wingman #4 Chloe had gotten home and seeing the mess had taken care of everything and cleaned it all up. Oh what a relief. Chloe

I grabbed the girls and we headed straight out to go to piano lessons. I brought all the labels with me and while Chloe was in her lessons. Wingmen #5 (Elle) #6 (Ava) and #7 (Olivia) put stickers on over 600 envelopes for me!!

Ava and Elle!! My littlest wingmen!

Olivia kept asking if she could do more to help

After lessons we headed home for homework, dinner and putting kids to bed. It was a rushed evening and I finally got everyone settled. Now the big job began. I had to finish putting labels on and then paperclip all 700 fliers to the envelopes, I thought "no big deal" but it was a big deal. I worked and worked but after 2 hours I only had 150 done.

Enter wingman #8 (and oh is he a sexy wingman....I am thinking Top Gun here) My husband!!The night before we had gotten only 3 hours of sleep because our house alarm malfunctioned and was blaring in the middle of the night. He had then gotten up at 5 am to drive to Dallas, worked all day then drove straight to the university to teach until 10 pm. I knew he was exhausted but when he arrived at 11:00pm and saw what I was doing he insisted on helping. We sat together on the bed until 2am and put the whole thing together.

If you could see his eyes, he is so tired but hung in there with me!!

I just couldn't have gotten through this day without help.

I am so grateful to these amazing people in my life,

I hope they all know that I have their backs too!
Ava and Elle helped put them all in the teachers boxes this morning.