Overwhelmed

I'm feeling really overwhelmed this week. I heard a song the yesterday that kind of described what I'm feeling. It said something about feeling like it was raining and the sun was shining at the same time. I feel like the rain is everything going on around me in my life. At the same time, having God in my life the sun is shining and I know he's in control of it all.

I'm mainly overwhelmed by work. I'm about 4 weeks behind (soon to be 5) and just never get a chance to get caught up. I need to sneak in late sometime and work when no one else is there.

I also have 3 sick boys, but they are doing better. They have runny noses and they did have slight fevers. Thankfully Tim was on vacation this week, so he could be with them while I was at work.

I'm frustrated with the house and the lack of cleaning that I've gotten done lately. In my mind I always think about throwing everything out so that I wouldn't have to stare at piles of clutter all the time, but that will never happen and I continue to bring new things into the house!

My grandma is still in the hospital. There is not much new and I still don't think they know exactly what is going on with her. Today I'm going to try to work on getting a meal together to take over to my grandpa.

I have several friends going through really tough times right now and I just ache for them. I need to focus more on praying for them. It amazes me how many hurting people there are in the world. I don't know if I'm more aware of it than I have ever been, or if things are getting worse, or if people with problems are drawn to me.

So, that's what's going on here. Glad that I could spread a little bit of sunshine into your day!

Saturday

I started the day out by hanging up some laundry. Then the boys and I went to pick up Amanda to go garage sale-ing. I am trying not to go so much, but there was another homeschool one and I just couldn't pass it up. It also said that most of the items were under $1. I did find quite a few things there and even found a Home and Garden party deep dish platter thing (I think that's the technical term) that matches a cookie jar I got at another garage sale. I got it for $2. Most of their items are $20 and up, so I was pretty happy with that find! All in all I think I spent $16 there and got a ton of stuff.

This afternoon Charity came over to gab and ooh and aah over my new stuff. The time she gets to spend here is never long enough, but it was nice to visit while the boys were sleeping and they did sleep extra long today.

Tonight we had grilled cheese and soup for supper. The boys played and then baths and off to bed. Now I'm too tired to do anything. Oh, I forgot what we did for entertainment tonight. We watched reality TV! The boys asked to watch their birth video (it's not that graphic). They like seeing themselves and it brought back so many things I had forgotten. It's hard to believe that was only 3 1/2 years ago. It seems like a lifetime.

MISC

If you want to know why I married Tim, go read his new post on Spam here.

It appears that I did win a contest after all in the Dog Days of Summer Blog Giveaway!

Last night we had a popcorn picnic for supper.

Thank you mom for re-caulking my tub! It looks so much better and I was able to take a relaxing bubble bath the other night (I did fall asleep about 5 minutes into it though!). I will try to do you proud by keeping it clean now!