Could Things Get Any Worse?

This has been the week from hell, and today has been particularly bad. It all started on Monday with two pieces of good news. How does good news lead to a week from hell, you ask? I'd love to explain.

Good News 1: Our tenant has finally moved out of the condo. With only two days before the sheriff came out to evict her, we found out she finally moved out. After having her live there rent free for almost 6 months, it is a HUGE relief! Almost $1K in legal fees, but we finally got her out. This however, has created TONS of stress for us because she left the place a huge mess. We need to catalog & then clear out the crap she left behind, which is mostly all junk. Then we have to re-carpet, replace the cabinets that she burned in a kitchen fire, patch a few holes in walls, paint & clean the entire place. Then we can finally rent it out & start getting some money for it.

Good News 2: After applying over a year ago, we got word late Monday afternoon that my Father In Law has gotten into the Veteran's Home. It is a beautiful place & he will be well taken care of. It's good news. Except, his admittance date is tomorrow. As in less than 3 days from when they told us. That left us with a few days to pack everything up & get him ready to be up there by 8am tomorrow morning.

So I'm overwhelmed. Still not a huge deal, I'll get through it. Edward took today & tomorrow off from work to take care of these things. I have my budget due at work, so I'm a bit overwhelmed working on that as well. Still, I should be able to get through it all.

Oh, except that yesterday I found out that the reason that my right breast has been hurting is because I have mastitis. I hadn't had any flu-like symptoms, but it was hurting so badly that the doctor already started me on antibiotics. So we went to bed last night feeling overwhelmed, but still feeling like we can manage it.

Until... the day from hell started at 3AM with a call from my FIL assisted living home saying that he has severe stomach pain & they think they should bring him into the emergency room. Edward decided to hold off until the morning & they got him into the doctor first thing this morning. It's been a long day, but right now they are getting some sort of scan because they think it's an infection. I'm not sure what this means in terms of him getting in to the VA home tomorrow. Even if he can still go, I'm not sure how we'll get him packed up tonight since Edward was supposed to have him all ready to go this afternoon before his 6pm meeting tonight. But since he's at the hospital with him right now, there is no packing going on.

Oh, and you know how the little things can eat away at you? Well they certainly have today. Why don't I just list them for you so you have an idea of what I'm going through today:

-Side effect of my medicine for the mastitis, stomach issues. My stomach started hurting this morning.
-Then the flu-like symptoms kicked in & now I feel shaky & acky & very cold.
-On my way out this morning, Edward switched the car seats into his pick up since he wanted to load the van up with his dad's stuff. When I got in the pick up, no gas. Got late to the babysitter since I had to pick up gas.
-Got to the babysitter at the same time as the guy installing her new counter tops & had to turn the huge truck around twice in order to park cause the guy didn't know where he wanted to park.
-Lost the check I had just written to the babysitter as I tried to shuffle the girls down the street since I couldn't park right in front of the daycare like I normally do. (At least I did find the check!)
-Got to work to discover my Internet not working. Took an extra 45 minutes to get my computer started this morning, which took time out of working on my budget.
-Decided that after all of this, I deserved a Reese's peanut butter cup. But of course, when I went to get it out of the vending machine, it got stuck.

At this point, I'm really thinking that today is not my day & I should just go home, shut off the lights, and forget about life. Oh, except that I have two kids to take care of.

Back & Busy

I apologize profusely to all of my loyal followers who may occasionally check in here or follow me. I was planning on getting better on the whole blogging thing, not worse! We had a lovely trip to Virginia. The flights went well, the girls behaved, I loved visiting with so much family all at once. As always, I ended up being pretty homesick for awhile afterwords. Since we got back last week I've just been running around like crazy. Halloween stuff, baby showers, lunches with good friends. It never ends. I've been working more this week as well to make up for my time off in Virginia. I feel like I haven't had much quality time with my girls or my husband. Maybe after Halloween things will slow down a bit?

I haven't even uploaded our pictures from the trip to computer yet. Maybe someday soon I'll do that. Maybe someday soon I'll find my checkbook that I lost. Maybe someday I'll actually find a moment to return my library books. Seriously, I was handling this "mom of two" thing really well until recently, and now I just feel completely & utterly overwhelmed. Besides my checkbook, I've also lost a Starbucks gift card that had $20 on it and an entire file of mortgage information. All of these items just seemed to *poof* disappear from my house. I'm not kidding you, I have looked everywhere for them. I used to be one of the most organized people you will ever meet, and now I'm the exact opposite of that. I feel a bit like I'm losing my mind.

Off to dress the kids & get to work now. I'm tired of being busy.

Off to Virginia

I still have an incredible amount of things to do, but we're leaving the house at 4am on Wednesday morning for a week in Virginia. We decided to get Alexa baptised there. My cousin & her husband are two of the most wonderful people I know. They took me in when I first graduated from college & let me live with them for 6 months while I tried to get a job & figure out my life. At the time, there two girls were the same age that my girls are now. It couldn't have been easy for them, but they helped me through a hard time in my life & I am where I am today because of them.

We've asked them to be Alexa's Godparents. My cousin's husband was just ordained as a minister, so he is going to baptize Alexa in his new church in Fredricksburg. We are so excited. My parents are driving down from NY & my little sister is flying up from FL. My aunt & uncle will already be there visiting my cousin's family, so they will be there. Even my uncle from North Carolina is going to come up for it. I'm very excited to have so many family meeting us there.

We're not too sure what we're going to do while we're there, but we hope to find some fun, kid friendly touristy things to do. I've been to DC a few times growing up & we're thinking it's not going to be super interesting for the girls, so we're still trying to come up with some fun activities. Let me know if you have any suggestions.