Just When You Thought . . .

So here I thought I had everything figured out and WHAM! God throws me a bone. No, not a curve ball, a bone. Things were going pretty smoothly a few weeks ago. I was finally making sense of the clutter that invades my house, i had a few extra moments to play with the kids, I had dinner figured out before 4PM. Life was good. Then the baby got sick, then i got sick. Then the laundry monster took over my house. Then the dirty dishes began to climb across my kitchen counters(I don't have a dishwasher).
I miracle happens, I have the shortest cold I've ever had. Thank you to my chiropractor. By now I'm feeling pretty crappy about my life again. Then I channel surf right to the preacher who is preaching about learning and stretching and sacrificing and how if you don't quit then you'll win the battle. If you don't give up or give in then you will win.
So now I'm ready to tackle my laundry monster, okay maybe not the whole monster just one of his minions. Perhaps I'll put a stop the march of dirty dishes across the counter top. Who knows, I may even issue a retreat. I do know that I'm evicting the spiders and demolishing their webs first thing in the morning.
I'm also going to spend more time with my preschooler. Guess I'll even watch Barney if I have to. I take that back. I'll do just about anything, but I'm drawing the line at Barney.

Down for the count

My baby (8 months) has been sick for over a week now. Runny nose, fever off and on, just felt miserable. So who else was miserable? Mommy. Not just because i felt sorry for the little guy, but because he hasn't slept for any length of time in these last few weeks, mommy hasn't slept either. Now i woke up this morning with an ear ache, serious sinus pressure, an amazing headache, and feeling like i got run over by a truck. So I've gone from doing pretty well to down and out. I really just want to sleep, but life goes on.
I'm also trying to get my book to the printer by next week. So i imagine that I'll be having some major late nights. I'm really hoping that Gateways will be a book that people can lose themselves in. It's hard to be objective when you've been living with something for so long.

Keeping up with life

If it's not one thing it's another. I go from birthdays to football practice and to football games. Now Halloween has gone and snuck up on me. So I have to come up with four Halloween costumes in the next week, preferably without having to spend $100. Have you seen the price of costumes nowadays? I'm hoping to convince my kids they don't need brand new costumes. We have quite a few dress up things here, so I figure we'll pull something together.
My youngest daughter at 3 years, wants to be a mermaid, Ariel is her favorite. My oldest son wants to be a Power Ranger-which is what he was last year, thinking we can try for using the same costume. Not sure what to dress up my baby as. He's only going to be 8 months. Have to rack my brain. When I figure it out I'll let you know.

Battling Myself

Have you ever heard the phrase "Get out of your own way"? Well that's me. I start out with a great plan and great intentions and then SPLAT, I fall flat on my face. I,m hoping at some point I'll get so fed up that I'll put all excuses out the window and just get to it. So that's my goal. I'm going to get organized, I'm going to lose weight, and I'm going to be nicer to those around me. Yes, because major life changes always bring out the good in people.
More tomorrow.