Hi FOlks,
Just a general whine about life I guess... It is 9:30pm and I am about 1/2 way through making my 4 1/2 year old daughters pirate princess costume. I don't have my sewing machine so I am using liquid Stich and that stuff really is pretty cool. So I have the drawstring bag done and am working on her sash/belt thing adding gem like tassels to the ends. I am totally exhausted and the baby (due in October) is kicking and making me uncomforatble... and as I rubbed my stomach trying to get him to stop for a bit, or at least move I was thinking I am just too old to be doing this again...
Seriously, I am thrilled to be having another I always wanted lots of kids and that did not quite work out, so I am thrilled that I will have two. But it just feels so much harder this time...
I don't know if it is age or that unlike with my daughter where all I did was work inthe office and come how, now I work from home, try to keep the much more used home clean, and take care of my daughter, get her on the bus to camp, to swimming, play dates etc.... or a combination of the two, but by the end of the day I am shot. And with my husband not here (work etc.) I don't have any help. No family nearby either...
So yeah I guess I am wihning a bit, but darn I am just so tired...and thinking I was nuts to think I could do this at my age...
Oh and to make it better after I had blood taken at the lab, I picked up the mail and saw a Claim statment from my insurance letting me know that the lab going to be billing me for almost $300 becusae we used up the money in the HRA. And I have to get blood drawn (CBC) evey month becuase my platlet count is low...and my deductible is $2400. Yippee for me, I know I reaching that this year....
Thanks for "listening"
Okay Obligatory Q - Would you spend the $$ on a babysitter so you could get some "me" time knowing you have medical bills looming? What about if the "me" time if spent working could get you OT to help cover the bills? I make enough per hour that even with paying for the sitter I would have the extra to apply toward the bills. I just really need a break....
Thanks again...
Thanks for your kind thoughts! I think I will arrange for sitter sometime next week for a couple hours.
Also the costume is almost done... I still ned to make a wand (my daughter told me all pirant princesses have wands!)
@Dawn - to answer you question :) - my sewing machine 2 1/2 hours away right now...
Yes. Saves on the counseling bills for the nervous breakdown &/or marriage counseling later on. Babysitters are MUCH cheaper than psychiatric care.
Not.
Actually.
Joking.
Get the babysitter - the obligatory answer.
What happened to your sewing machine? My obligatory question...
Hope you get done and can go to bed soon!!
Dawn
October will be here before you know it!
YES!! I would spend the money on a sitter. YOU NEED A BREAK!!! Do it however you need to!!
Call the insurance company WHILE you have your feet up and a cool pack on the back of you neck and get it straightened out. Call the lab and let them know you will be paying cash and is there a cash discout they can give you?
I'm sorry you are far away from me!! I'd love to pack up my sewing machine and come let you rest for a day or two!! I've been there!! My last was born 4 weeks early in July and it was hotter than he$$ that month. I spent a lot of time at the pool and putting the AC on 68.
You'll get through it!! You're not alone!!!
Sounds like its time to put the costume down and your feet up.
Yes, take that break...if necessary, chalk it up as "mental health time" that is a medical necessity.
Awww.. hang in there.
I definitely feel you on the missing sewing machine. I have been putting off making a quilt for my daughter for over a year. FINALLY, I had set aside time to do it this week (while everyone else is away at camp for a solid week so I can spend my time how I please---which was going to be sewing her quilt).... and last night, after sewing the top row of blocks together, an edge went down in the bobbin compartment and I think messed up the timing on it. So it is off to the shop, and I won't see it again until after everyone is back home again!
AND, the remaining blocks (spread out all over the top of my guest bed) will have to be packed back up, because we have company coming next week.
Aughhhh!!!!
