Sunday, August 16, 2009

Upside Down

I am still around but my life has turned upside down and I haven't any free time to write. In fact this is going to be a quick update on my insanity. My suspicions about my sister and husband were correct and worse than I thought and without going into any more detail than that I now have my 9 year old nephew and 7 year old niece living with me full time and I am helping my mom with my 12 year old autistic nephew. Considering I am going from no children to now having two children (that are emotionally a wreck) I am a bit overwhelmed. Let me give you a quick run down of how my life and schedule have been for the last few weeks and you can tell me if I deserve to feel a bit overwhelmed:
  • I just received a new boss at work and even more job responsibilities
  • The car my husband drives to work is on it's way out quicker than we can fix.
  • my zero % interest on credit card I put all our debt on is going from zero to 13% after September and I still don't have debt paid off.
  • Something wrong with plumbing in the house
  • My cat that I have had for just about 13 years died in my arms two days ago
  • I have gone from being child free to a instant care given for two needy children.
  • Need to convert this office to a bedroom for one of the children
  • School is starting in three weeks so I need to get the kids registered assuming I still have them. (nothing has been legally set up yet)
  • School supplies and clothes must be bought.
  • Found out I didn't get the new position at work I applied for.
  • Trying to do as much as I can to make this transition for my husband and kids as smooth as possible since nobody signed up for this one.
  • Trying to prepare for the fact that the company my husband works for announced that the plant he works for will be closing permanently next summer so he will be without a job again.

Yep, these are few of the things that have me overwhelmed and not sleeping at night. As soon as I can get a smoother schedule worked out I will be back writing more frequent. I would love to stay and write more but I can currently hear the children arguing over who got more slices of banana from me..........