Mental Health Day

The track meet in Camden was canceled today due to bad weather. Too bad I wasn't informed before I spent a whole hour stressing out about getting my kids ready to pick up the sitter at 2:35 to drop them off at home to be back to the school before the bus left at 2:50. Still with me? I drove past the school at 2:45 with kids and sitter in van. I took a quick note that the bus was outside but no one was loading... yet. 5 minutes later (and on time... barely) I pull back into the school to jump on the bus and it's gone! WTH!!! The basketball coaches have left me on more than one occasion, meaning I have to find my own transportation to the game, but come on, this is a varsity level position, I'm not just the lowly junior high cheer coach, sheesh!

I went storming into the school ready to tear someone apart and saw one of the guys' coaches and several runners standing around. It took several seconds for the fact that the meet had been canceled to sink into my stressed out brain. Due to the stress of the afternoon and the fact that I feel like I just cannot get caught up on "life", I called a mental health day and sent all of my girls home to run on their own. Then, because I can't afford to pay anyone to clean my house, I payed my sitter to hang around and watch the kids so I could clean my bathroom for the first time in a, um, let's just say, a long time.

My mom stopped by and we took the kids for a walk on the trail before plunking them into the (now clean) bathtub;). Now they're all tucked fresh and clean into bed and I seriously have 10, t-e-n, clean baskets of laundry that I am going to attempt to fold and put away before Tom returns from his MNO- man's nite out- from the Tigers game.

I keep holding onto the hope that life won't always be this crazy, that I'll actually be able to have the opportunity to sit back and enjoy my kids growing up instead of feeling like I'm just running mad circles around them. Tom got some could be good news today in regards to his summer internship. There is a company looking for several students to complete a project over the summer. It's only a temporary position, but it is a paid position and it could turn into something more long term. We'll know within the next week or so if he's chosen. Perhaps this is the opportunity we've been waiting for?