I'm swamped over here!

Yikes!! I feel like I don't have time to breathe at times. Poor Bailey is watching way too much TV. But what can I do? I certainly can't be up every night all night long. I would be dead the next day which wouldn't be fair either. I had one essay due last night and another 4 due this afternoon. Then I get back from picking up the boys and dropping off their science fair projects only to find a whole new list of homework to complete by next week.

So what is so hard about turning in essays back to back like that? Well it's like this. I feel like I am borderline (if not overboard) OCD. So I have this overwhelming desire to revise the crap out of a piece of writing. It never feels perfect. As soon as I send it off, I have to pull myself away completely or I will find many other changes I should have made. This is literally driving me crazy. I'll probably be in the nut house by the end of March. By then I'll have at least another 10 essays under my belt.

Now back to the OCD thing. It's like this with many things I do. With the boys' science fair projects, I kept wanting to edit this and that and reprint and recut and add and the list goes on and on. It took me a few days to perfect freehanding various nuts and popcorn for creative effects. I probably drove the boys nuts. LOL This carries over to other aspects of my life as well. Let's not even get started talking about germs! And now this dang wireless keyboard will most likely get thrown out the window in a few more days. It's skips more letters than my heart skips beats during a test.

Why is it that I have to be the one whose toddler doesn't sleep? I cannot let Bailey have a nap or she is up until midnight. We tested this theory one last time Thursday night. I take Patrick to Math night at school. Bailey is upset and falls asleep. I get home an hour later and wake her right up. She is up until 11:55. No joke! I can't take this! I'm lucky if she sleeps 10 hours a night. Bradley sleeps more than she does.

I've complained enough for one night. It's time to get busy with another week of homework. Sunday will be here in what seems like 24 hours.

Off to a rough start

With inclement weather, a traveling husband, and three kids driving me bonkers, I am really off to a rough start. I about cried last week out of frustration wondering how long I can keep this pace up. Last week was just so overwhelming. I am slowly getting a handle on things the past couple of days but didn't get much accomplished this afternoon or evening. I had to take a break and clean up the house and spend some time with Bailey. It was long overdue!

Snow Day

Snows Days are not necessarily a good thing when you are doing classes online. There is no such thing as a snow day. Our work is still due by the weekly deadline regardless of the weather, even if the electricity goes out. So while all three kids enjoyed torturing me all day long yesterday, nothing else was accomplished. It was a wasted day for me and now I am another day behind schedule while struggling to find my groove again. And what could be worse? Another snow day! Yes, now they are predicting more snow tomorrow. I have so many assignments due Sunday night. I haven't even finished one class yet. I am steadily making progress (except for yesterday, of course) but it is taking me forever to get anything finished.

Let's hope I can find some productve way to get my work caught up over the next couple of days!

First day back!

It always seems to have its share of chaos. I wake up with a horrendous headache, not sure if it was sinus related or due to the decrease in caffeine. Then I can only 'see' one of my classes and everything isn't posted in there yet. That takes well into the afternoon to fix. Bailey is throwing up by lunchtime so I'm busy dealing with her as well. Then I get a call from her CDSA regarding her therapy sessions and decided to go ahead and cease them for now (that is a whole other story). Steve doesn't get home from work until after 7pm. In the midst of all the chaos I did manage to get both boys' homework finished, walk for 20 minutes, get everyone fed, and they had outside play time. By the end of the day, I could work a little in each class so that I felt like I was at least present and accounted for.

Gearing up for Spring Semester

Yikes, I just realized this next semester starts on Monday! Geesh, have I really been sick that long? Bradley was sick before getting out, then got the ear infection the first day of break, then gave it to Bailey, then Bailey gave it to me, then mine turned into the sinus infection. It seems this whole break has been slept away. This is the first night I have had to myself and I am still doped up.

So here is the kicker. I gained 5 pounds my first semester. How? My downing too many sodas keeping myself awake into the wee hours of the morning so that my days were spent with Bailey and the kids as much as possible. Then add another 2 pounds from Christmas and being sick and wham, that adds up to a whopping 7 pounds. So tomorrow I'm heading to weight watchers to join. It's the only diet program that I know of that works for me. So now I am juggling the demands of dieting along with playgroup, volunteering at the elementary school, Bailey's therapy, Patrick's Tae Kwon Do, life with 3 kids, and my school work. It is going to be one wild ride!