Poor Neglected Bloggie!

Friday, May 18, 2007

Man…Haven’t updated in a while.  That’s because life has been…just a lot to handle lately.  Nothing bad, just a lot of normal daily things all piling up on top of each other.  Kind of like the pile of clean laundry over by the dryer that needs to be folded.  *sigh* I hate folding laundry.  It makes my {wimpy} arms hurt.

Bobby has been cramming financial planning information into his brain for pretty much four weeks straight now.  He’s been scoring really well on all his quizzes, and the people who check in on his training progress say he should have no problem passing the Series 7 (one of the major licensing tests he has to take).  So that’s good.  The downside is, he’s kind of getting studied out.  He studies pretty much all day, and sometimes late into the night, and it’s making him a little loopy.  Right now he’s in the other room singing to me, in a falsetto, some song he just made up about a monkey.  He needs more sleep and less caffeine, if you ask me.

Meanwhile, I’ve had four pretty hectic days at work back-to-back, dealing with clients whose lack of knowledge (I’m trying so hard to be polite and not say “stupidity”) was driving me a little insane.  Okay, a lot insane.  And in the midst of work chaos, I still have to take care of my little Mia-pie, who has recently decided to assert her will on a more regular basis.  Yeah, so basically I’m just feeling pretty overwhemled with everything that’s on my plate right now.

I can manage, and I know none of this is permanent.  Someday in the not too distant future, Bobby’s job will be enough to sustain us so that I don’t have to work anymore, and I can just be a mommy (and a digital scrapbook designer).  And my brain won’t feel so fragmented, and I won’t feel so ADD.  And I won’t feel like a terrible mother who is incapable of handling another child.  I really do want more kids, but right now I feel like another baby would just push me over the edge.  But like I said, it won’t always be that way.  I hope.

I am really looking forward to moving to Knoxville, even though we haven’t even started thinking about packing up yet, which is a huge stress (no comments, Mom–I know it needs to get done!).  It will be comforting to be only a day’s drive away from family.  Hopefully it will mean more frequent visits from the grandparents, more frequent visits to the grandparents.  My mother-in-law is trying to sell her house in New Mexico so she can move out to Knoxville to be close to us, and even that is starting to sound good to me.  To have an instant babysitter available whenever.  Man.  That would be nice.  I think it’s been like six months since Bobby and I went out on a date together.  Yeah.  Anyways, it’s something I look forward to whenever I get completely frustrated with our current situation.

So, feel caught up now?  That makes one of us.