ramblings of an overworked mommy

This is what I should be doing.

Obviously, this is what I AM doing.

It has been a very busy week. There are many reasons. I am not complaining. I am just trying to relax and let it out. But I am a little frustrated. Being busy makes me cranky. I always try to fit in a little personal time during the week. This week I had a hard time doing that. So this is my personal time. Time to do some thing that I enjoy, something that I have not had much time to do. Here is just a little bit of my week.

• I work 5 days in this pay period (sat- fri). It has been a long time since I have done that. Result... no personal time, a trashed out house, and one CRANKY and TIRED Mom.


• No hubby to help. I would love to have him home more. But he works sooo hard. He leaves each morning at 7:30ish and comes home around 6. He leaves again at 7:30pm and does not come home until midnight. On his night off I work. He offers to help when he is here, but I can't let him. He needs the break.


• District manager and the guy who monitors compliance were in town. I have an issue with the compliance guy. His job it to look at the day-to-day ops of our store and complain that we did not get up to 90% on this, or that. Seriously, get a life. Have you ever worked a real store?


• J (he WAS trying to be helpful) took his shoes upstairs to his bedroom, while leaving a large trail of sand on the stairs. I get to vacuum the stairs.


• Pack meeting tonight.


• I won an auction on eBay. Normally this would be good. Only I thought that I would be outbid and so when I came across the same item at Walmart I bought it. It is for Eric's birthday and so I needed to be prepared. Oh well. I will return the Walmart one.


• I received a recognition today at work for 10 years of faithful service. It will be 11 years in November, but better late then never. But still, a pretty cool thing to get. How many people can say that they have been in a job for 11 years. Never mind that those 11 years equal 1/3 of my life.


• New schedule for me and the kids. Leave work @ 3. Young kids meet me there at work, go pick up the Brown kids (thank goodness for the mini-van), drop off Young's, get Katie, drop off Browns, park a mile from the school, walk to get J with Kate in tow, go home, give snacks, return the million phone calls that I got during the day, start dinner, go get Eric, come home, finish dinner, homework, eat dinner, baths, books, tv, milk, prayer, BED!

Okay, enough rambling. Thank you for listening. I am OFF tomorrow, but I have to get a cavity filled. What a bummer. I am excited for the weekend. The kids and I are going to decorate for Halloween. I love the fall! I will share pictures. Then Saturday night, DATE night with Brandon and some great friends. Hooray for the weekend!