Day 67: How Busy is Too Busy

Today is Sunday. The one day out of the week that shows me how much I am missing Ian. I hate going to church alone and doing everything with the kids alone. It just sucks.

Ian called this morning over Skype and talked to the kids. It was quite an entertaining conversation. They talked about everything and the kids acted goofy on camera. Ian was eating it up. It was refreshing for the kids to be able to talk to Ian since they haven't been able to talk to him for the majority of the week. It was a good conversation for all of us. Unfortunately, we had to end it when we had to leave for church. It was my turn in the nursery which meant I have to be there at 9am. Church itself was good. Nursery for second service was fun. After church, I went over to a friend's house to get her husband to look at my van. My A/C went out yesterday as I was delivering cakes. So, of course, since I had a friend to look at it, it decided to start working again. He looked at it anyways, but couldn't see a problem. So, for now, I will be driving it around until it decides to go out again to have my friend look at it again.

After lunch, I took the girls to their swim lessons and swam with the Daniel. It was insanely fun to swim with him and he got some fun mommy time. After the lesson we swam for a few extra minutes, but wanted to get home because I was extremely tired and the sun and I do not exactly get along. We spent the rest of the day hanging out and relaxing. Overall, not a bad day.

Over the past week, a lot has gone wrong at the exact time that I have been insanely busy. One key thing any military wife will tell you to do during a deployment is to stay busy. The question is, how busy is too busy? This week I had 4 cakes to make, an insane amount of housework to do, having to get the kids into the routine of school, and my church activities. It has been super busy week. So, that is the problem of the day. Because of my super busy schedule, coupled with my already crappy memory, I let a very important detail needed for a job slip out of my mind. So, I really need to figure out a balance of staying busy but not losing my mind. Problem is, all the things I have volunteered to do are things I love. All the things that I will soon be doing (not just the volunteering) are for my future job. I feel like I really can't give up anything, but I know I can maybe take it in on a smaller scale. We will see how that goes.

Another day, another weekend, gone. Just that much closer to seeing my husband again.