Monday, March 9, 2009

OMG! And Not In A Good Way

Earlier today I thought that if I did not catch a break I was going to break!  I have been thinking that it hasn't been that bad-all this time that Jason has been traveling.  I mean, I'd much rather have him here.  But, all in all, it hasn't been horrible.  Just about the time I think I'm going to lose it, he comes home for a few days and rescues me.  But today is only Monday, and it looks like this week isn't going to pass as swimmingly as some of the others. 

 
Here are a few highlights of my day:
  • Thank goodness for daylights saving time because I think that is the one day of the year that my kids sleep later than 6:30.  This morning it seemed glorious when my first child made his first peep in the monitor at 7:40.  I absolutely could not believe it.  Yes, we do have to leave the house at 8:30 to get Amelia to school on time.  But I decided I would be mom of the year and feed my kids Pop-Tarts on the way to school, making it feasible to get out of the house in less than an hour. This seemed to be going rather well.  We were in the car by 8:35, not too shabby, and the kids were thrilled with the opportunity to eat a sugar-filled definitely NOT healthy (as Amelia would say) breakfast.  I jump in the car, put the car in reverse, and notice over my shoulder that Owen, after gagging on his Pop-Tart is now throwing the entire chocolaty mess all over himself and the car seat.  By the time I got him cleaned up and changed, we were so nowhere near on time for school.  And I didn't even panic-even though deep down I was resentful that I would now be missing aerobics!
  • Lane's all day clinginess turned out to have a legitimate cause-a 103 degree fever.  Sorry Kelli-I promise I didn't know when I exposed your kids today.
  • On the way home from a little golf cart ride, Amelia informed me that she felt sick and that she was going to throw up.  Great! As of now, that has not happened.  She has been sleeping soundly for three hours.
This would be about the time overwhelmedness (I guess I made up that word) set in as I began thinking that they would not be able to go to school tomorrow, I would not be able to go to my bible study, and I was going to be at home all week with sick kids.  Unlikely that it's going to be as bad as I'm working it up to be but that's what I do when I get overwhelmed. 

I found great escape tonight in playing with Photoshop.  I'm going to upload a few practice invitation I'm playing with for Amelia's birthday.

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