A few thoughts

Do you ever have those days when they completely get away from you? You wake up and the next thing you know it's 2 in the afternoon and the only thing you've managed to get done is eat breakfast and drink some coffee? Yeah, i've had a few of those this week.

Motivation is something that ebbs and flows like the tides in my life. Some mornings I wake up and say "let's do this!" and I get everything accomplished that I want to and then the next day everything goes to crap and I sulk because my house is a mess, laundry is piled up and the kids are still in pajamas.

I have a lot going on in my life and sometimes I just feel like being lazy. I think today is one of those days.

Do you have any idea how much laundry is involved with 6 people under the same roof? It's ridiculous. Just when I think i'm done I look under beds, behind doors or Scott unloads his car with a weeks worth of work clothes. Laundry is NEVER done in this  house. As soon as I breathe a sigh of relief someone pees, poops or spills something and the vicious cycle starts all over. If I had to pick one thing, just one thing that I could have done for me on a weekly basis (or everyday?!) I would hire someone to do my damn laundry. I complain about laundry a lot, because I hate it...a lot. I'm seriously considering putting my family in a nudist colony...

So I was never the "popular" kid in high school. I had my group of friends that I loved and never strived for that title. I liked to think I was friends with everyone. We all grew up, went to college (or the military in my case), got married, had babies etc. Over the past few weeks a few of my classmates have been reaching out because their spouses are either enlisting or have already enlisted and they are looking for advice on how to transition their kids to this new life or questions about different areas of the country. I was friends with these people in school but never would have considered myself someone that they would confide in later in life. I take pride in the fact that people think enough of me to trust me with their questions.