March??! FIFTH!!!

How can it be the fifth of March already?! I really dont get it. Just last week it was Christmas, and now March?!

Keep thinking I missed something when I blinked.

Spent the last few days in a haze of homework, house cleaning, clinical (more homework), baking and frantically trying to figure out where to stach all my stock piles... because company was a coming.

Honestly, we don't get manu guests... (I think the kids scare them off)but Hubby had a friend and his family stay with us while they were visiting. I was running around crazy trying to get the house ready, threaten the kids about their behavior, do my homework, go to school, be less than an incompetent hostess.

My poor crock pot"s". Yes, I have to have multiple ones... and thats just for my family. Add in 5 or so more... thats a lotta crock-pottin'.

They were great, my kids behaved, but I'm exhausted. Even my exhaustion is exhausted. Too tired to sleep is just WRONG from every direction.

Sooooo, now I am couch bound. With a fever:baby on my lap... trying to catch up with out moving more than necessary. I did get up and do laundry and dishes when she was put on the couch- but that didn't last too long. You CAN walk into the house to the kitchen... and the trail winds back to the bathroom... so we should be covered until the kids get home from school.

And these are the days of my life. Busy beyone all recognition, counting down until (my) Spring break... where I can sleep in until 6am... and the Laundry fairies come to help with the house work. Where DOES the time go?

hey

Quick shout out-- Hi to my Aunt :)

We are all here and still surviving! Kids are big and fine. They haven't driven me crazy (completely anyway!!)

Just wanted to say hey- thanks for checking in!! I do promise to keep writing, and Im sorry for the info black out~

Talk to you all soon~~

What do we do???

Breathe

Wow- that picture on the header is OLD! The kids look nothing like that anymore. In my free time (haha) I'll have to get some more recent ones up there for you.

I figured I would take a second or two to try and breathe before shipping the kids outside and working like a crazy woman on the PILE of papre work that is sitting here all around me- closing in- stealing my air.

DESPERATELY in need of some caffeinated liquid fortitude. LOTS and lots of it.

I have so much to do, and so much else going on- I am having trouble figuring out where to start. Anxiety- what a vicious circle!! I have heard that it is good to remember to breathe, so I will try.

Don't hold it against me~

Hello- yes, it really is me. The kids haven't had me tied up- but it sometimes feels that way.

School has been taking every last ounce of my energy... between homework, kids, dinner, laundry, and clinical- I rarely know what day it is anymore. I have missed writing here- it was my sanity. Since I have become sanity free :) IM BACK!!!

I know I KNOW!!

It is already November. NOVEMBER people!!

I can't believe it- I have no idea where the time has gone. Other than obnoxious amounts of homework, and 6 "professional quality" papers I have been beating my head against. Seriously- if I had had the notion that I would have to write +30 page paperS (MORE THAN ONE) I would have reconsidered my choice of profession.

"What the hell was I thinking??" has become the mantra.

Ha ha- you would have thought with 7 kids, that would have been the motto LONG ago!!- No one ever said I was quick!!

Aside from going bat-sh** crazy, whats been going on out there in Blog Land? I feel completely out of the loop, I am gossip-less, out of touch, and stressed out. I can occasionally remember what day it is- and was doing ok with the time until the time change.

Being in school full time has changed things around here. My attention span is non-existent. The house is a mess (but thats pretty typical), Hamburger Helper has been sustaining life- (which drives me nuts, but the kids will actually eat it- and its fast- and they EAT it.) I have also realized that I am more (spazzy) scattered, distracted, blonde... now what was I saying ??? :)

I have transformed into a hypochondriac- all the weird disease, syndromes, or conditions... I have them. I swear I do.

The kids have all been pretty healthy- and ornery. Halloween was a blur- I will try and get pictures posted, but wont make any promises. There were witches, mad scientists (mad because he wanted to be a vampire, but couldn't pull a costume together- so he got what he got). We had a dragon (with garlic breath) and 3 buzzing bees. I never would have thought about being a Bee for Halloween, but evidently its pretty popular. Going on 3 years at our house- but I have weird kids. YEA!! I DID post something!!!

Thanksgiving is coming up fast- Mom in Law is going to come up!!That will be nice, we don't get to see her very often. The bad thing about turkey day is that Christmas follows WAY too fast after that.

I cant hardly comprehend that Halloween is over- where did summer go?! And I have not a clue about Christmas- way to much to do and never enough time to do it in.

If this nursing thing doesn't work out, I will have to really look into the caffeine IV, and cloning. 2 very good ideas that are discussed A LOT in nursing school!!

Speaking of caffeine, mine is starting to wear off and the lecture lady is about ready to start up again... I will try to get back here more often. Its nice to (pretend) to talk to grownups out there :)

Yes, its me. Is it you?

So I've been gone awhile. What- did you miss my whining or something?!

I have been trying to survive. School, kids, Kids'school, life in general. It has been a struggle. A lot harder than I thought, or expected, in ways I never thought of. There are so many "coping" type statements we keep telling ourselves, trying to trick us into thinking we have a chance at doing this.

Its a PROFESSIONAL program, not a college course. If it were easy EVERYONE would do this. Fake it till you make it. Sleep is for the weak. Coffee is for the exhausted. Sign me up for both.

My current favorite is "you may feel like you are just treading water..."

People usually just kinda stopp talking there, because treading is all we seem to do.

At least I have experience in that department.