Too Stressed!

I have been too stressed lately! I just have too much going on with being a mom, an FRG leader, a friend (not so good one right now though, as I am either sick a lot lately or just never available), sick a lot lately... oh, have I already mentioned that?... and constantly babysitting for people at the last minute... which makes it tough to cross the 10 million things to do off of my to-do lists. I got frustrated with someone today when they didn't show up and they were supposed to meet with me so I could sign for a building that we are using for our company garage sale tomorrow. She told me to meet her at 3pm, so I was there 10'till 3pm. I waited until 10 min after 3pm... and left very frustrated. I went home made and called the housing office and the community building office and left not-so-friendly messages explaining my situation and letting them know they needed to call me back and meet me up there to give me a key. We were not even home long enough today for Heidi to get a nap! Poor baby! We stopped by the house a couple of times... and one time we had lunch... and one time for a little while I babysat at our house. I have just hardly been home. Well, it is now 2:22am. I guess I should try to get some sleep. I just thought maybe I would feel a little better if I wrote a little to explain SOME of my frustrations. It just seems like I cannot accomplish everything that I want to do every day. I just finished making garage sale signs for our company. I still need to load up my car with things to take and get a diaper bag ready for tomorrow... and then need to be in the car ready to go at 5:45am, so I really don't know what the point of going to bed at this time would be. Anyway, I'm just looking forward to a day off .... when I am not sick... and I really want this cold to go away that I have had for what seems to have been over two weeks now.

Leah?

While we were in the commissary this evening at the Midnight Madness sale, Heidi kept asking me what my name was (What's your name?)... and I would say "My name is Mommy. What's your name?" Then, she kept telling me "Leah. Name's Leah." Then she would laugh.... and say "silly Heidi" while doing the sign for "silly." She was being silly. She was pretty good in the commissary... better than she usually is. Usually, I have to fight to keep her strapped in the seat part of the cart. And, if I put her in the cart, she either starts throwing things out or she sometimes even tries to climb out. She thinks she can put her legs over the side and get out, but she doesn't realize that her legs won't reach the ground... and she could fall and really get hurt. Shopping with her is usually a struggle. This evening, though, she was actually pretty well behaved and acted a little silly telling me that her name was Leah over and over again.

I did get a few things that were on sale tonight. I got Huggies diapers on sale 50% off (4 packs). I also got a 13 pound turkey for $5.... and a few other things that I am sure nobody is probably interested in hearing about (ordinary grocery items).

Didn't miss a number...

Yesterday, Heidi counted to 10 without skipping a number. I really don't know how she learned to count to TEN! She had been counting to TWO for the longest time... and just kept starting over if there were more than two objects to count. I had just been trying to get her to count to THREE! But when she finally started counting to three, she didn't just stop there... she kept going to NINE and then to TEN a couple of days later! I was shocked since I haven't been teaching her to count that high. I think maybe she saw something once on tv that helped her learn them.

She is still napping right now. I have chicken in the oven and am making green beans. When she wakes up, we will eat some chicken and then we are going to try to go to the Midnight Madness sale at the commissary! I need to buy some toilet paper and some papertowels anyway. Maybe we will find some good deals while we are there. It is from 6pm-12am. We will probably go about 6pm though. I don't want to keep Heidi up too late. :)

Tonight's Counting...

Tonight, Heidi just started counting... "2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10."

She always misses one number... tonight it was #1.

Brian found out that he did not get into the acquisition corp today, so I guess he will be getting out of the army. It is a little scary because we don't know what he will do or where we will go. He doesn't know if he wants to go back to school or just find a job somewhere. It is especially scary because I was hoping to have another baby next year, so I hope he can at least find a job with some good insurance! His command is up in April and it takes 6 months for his papers to go through.... so he might be out this spring or summer sometime. I guess we will have to see what happens! We just don't want to be apart every other year.... and right now, I think they are on a schedule (at least at this post) to be home 12 months, gone 15, home 12, gone 15, etc.... so this is for the best.