Extreme Makeover: Blog Edition
I am tired. Worn out. Pooped. Ready for bed. My brain is shot for the day. I can no longer read clearly, type correctly (so glad I have a spell checker on this blog), or see clearly, much less think clearly. It’s been a doozy of a day. Is doozy a word? It is now, here anyway.
I have done a complete overhaul of my blog. I just wasn’t satisfied anymore with what I was doing. Yes, I was, but not enough. This overhaul may prove to be more work than I want, but we’ll see. You all have stuck by me through much more than this. I’ve decided to completely merge our homeschool blog over here. I’ll be moving things over through out the week. I just need to simplify.
I’ve been very busy cleaning old links, categories, posts and pages. I’ve been cleaning out my e-mails and trying to streamline things a bit between work stuff and home stuff and homeschool stuff. The laundry is behind again. I had it all caught up. Hubby having a second job is really biting our family in the butt. We are all tired and cranky and the time we are together is so busy we don’t even get to look at each other anymore. I morphed into a controlling, dictating, snapping turtle because being a single parent to 6 children is hard. That is exactly what it feels like. The children are crying all the time, wanting to know when they are going to see their father again. I have an ulcer that is wreaking havoc on my insides. I have barely eaten in four days because just the though of swallowing food makes me double over in pain. I don’t know how military families do this. Does it make it any easier knowing that they “chose” that life. Or that the next end date is around the corner? I don’t see an end for us with this, at least not right now. I see no light at the end of the tunnel. Just another day wondering if the next one is going to kill me.
/End pity party. The real party’s on the next page. :^)
I’m excited about the makeover, at least I think I’m excited about the make over. There’s still so much more to do, but the skeleton is functioning and fitting for this time of year. But I’m really excited that October is just around the corner. You know what happens in October don’t you? Well, for starters, Birdie will be nine this October. She started life early and so small and now she’s almost nine. And a toothless nine at that. But you know what else happens in October, right? Yep. That’s right. It’s right around the corner and there will be even more changes as the time gets closer upon us. Fun. FUN. FUN!!!
Hit play, dance around, and maybe I’ll join you tomorrow.
I totally feel your pain about your dh being gone and you feeling like a single mom. My dh is a summer camp director and is gone from 7am till after 11pm (sometimes 1am) from the last week of May til after the 3rd week in August. It is ROUGH! I always think the same thing, “How do military wives do it? Is this why it’s rare to see military families with lots of children? do they homeschool? Should we reconsider sending fathers/husbands away from their families for extended periods? Is it right that a man take a job knowing he will be gone for over a year sometimes?…”
I find this helps during my one woman show times:
1) Go to bed at a decent time. A tired mama is not a happy mama.
2) Keep a Bible open to the Psalms in all the bathrooms and on the kitchen counter. Read a psalm when losing my cool.
3) Take a nap. See #1
4) Plan a babysitter once every couple of weeks to go meet girlfriends or just to be alone.
I hope you feel better soon.
GfG