Oh boy. Today has really been one of those days. One of those days that has just felt like since the moment I woke up this morning (at 4:15 a.m.) everything has been a mess. One giant mess after another.
I have felt so disconnected, like I was walking around in a fog all day – no doubt from the lack of good sleep! I have been snappy, irritated, short with patience, and in constant need of a whole lot of grace and forgiveness.
I started the morning early trying to hammer out a blog post but just couldn’t manage to find the words I was looking for. I wanted to write something to promote an offer that I felt would help you all and I couldn’t gather a single coherent thought! I was extremely frustrated with myself and that made it even harder to focus on what I was thinking. The Boy soon woke up and I knew it would be a lost cause to continue. ugh.
I got very little else from my list accomplished today other than finding a great deal on two 2nd-hand floor lamps that we really needed! So The Boy and I headed out to pick them up and then I could not for the life of me figure out how to get them in to my car. The gal I bought them from figured out how to take the bases apart and we both managed to get them stowed away in the trunk and back seat. And as I drove away, I started to realize that I should have brought some sort of blanket to protect the glass tops! ugh.
We finally get back to our neighborhood and I remember that I had a loaf of bread in the bread machine that was about to be done, but we had to head back out and mail an extremely important business payment for The Husband that was supposed to have been mailed on Tuesday! ugh.
The Boy wanted to get out and drop the letter in the blue box himself, so I let him hop out of the car and walk over to the mail box in front of the market. Then I realized I didn’t have dinner planned out well so I decided at the last minute to run in to the market and just grab a few things for dinner. Well, we just happened to be at one of the more expensive grocery stores in town and I was starting to feel frustrated that this last-minute shopping trip was going to cost a pretty penny or two. ugh.
So, I hop out of the car and and The Boy and I head in to the market and grab a hand basket. And he wants to be the one to carry the basket. Through the entire store. No matter how heavy it is. ugh.
I walk around the store hurriedly because I know that bread will be done soon and the longer it sits in the warm machine after it has baked it will just become rubbery and inedible and then we will have no bread for the weekend and just…… ugh.
I can’t decide what type of meat to cook for dinner so I blindly grab what appears to be the last beef roast and the price has me cringing. We could eat out for the price of the roast alone! The basket is getting heavy but The Boy insists on lugging it around and walking right at my side knocking me into the end caps and oncoming shoppers. We manage our way to the produce department and the prices there are no better! I grab a couple pounds of red potatoes and a bag of carrots and then have to explain to my fruit and veggie loving kiddo why we can’t stock up on “treats” here. A small container of non-organic blueberries? $6. Um, no. I relent and let him grab a thing of grapes. ugh.
We head to the check out and at this point The Boy has relinquished custody of the now-way-too-heavy basket and is making a mad dash for the self-checkout lane weaving through shoppers and carts. I am hollering at him to wait up for me but he is already in line. When I catch up to him he eagerly runs up to an available station and begins scanning items. I try to get him to slow down so we can be sure to scan everything correctly and not make the self-checkout checker clerk person (what are those guys called anyways?) have to come over and fix our errors. He does well until we get to the produce and I have no idea how to ring that stuff up. We push the wrong button for the potatoes and the clerk has to come over and redo it. We can’t find the button for the croissants and the donuts and another clerk has to come over and show us how to do it, and then come back another time to fix it. He grabs the grapes (and by this time I know how to key in the code!) and the robot voice shouts out the price…$7.15! FOR A SMALL THING OF GRAPES?! Good grief and ugh.
We get all bagged up and head for the door and as I am loading the car I remember the bread! Rush back home and unload the grocery bags and run to the machine and pull the bread out and set it out to cool. Head back out to the car to offload the lamps and realize the lamps I bought are too heavy and tall and way awkward for one person to manage and I cannot get the wires back in the base to screw the parts back together without dropping the glass tops and there’s no where to set them down and I am just going to have to lug them inside in pieces trying not to damage the glass tops and……ugh.
I holler to the boy to help open the gate with my keys and he runs ahead to grab the door and I manage to get everything inside and set up! YAY!
I help The Boy to fix his own lunch on the stove and after he’s eaten, I realize I have got to rest – even if only a 10 minute cat nap, I have got to shut my eyes and recharge for the second half of the day. I encourage The Boy to join me and, well, 30 minutes of tossing, wiggling, and complaining (through yawns!) about not being tired….I give up. ugh.
We decide to lay in bed and read books together as a compromise and the door bell rings. The maintenance worker has found my keys stuck in the front gate and returned them. So relieved they were returned safely and no harm was done, but my OCD begins to race with all of the things that could have gone wrong with missing car and house keys. ugh.
I head to the kitchen to get dinner going and The Boy is by this time off his rocker tired and starting to climb the walls needing my attention. I put on one of our favorite worship concert videos and tell him he can help with dinner prep and we get everything in the oven. I s – l – o – w – l – y begin to feel more awake and my toes are tapping and we both start singing along and dancing around the kitchen together! It never ceases to amaze me what worship music can do to lift your spirits and change your mood altogether. Hard to be unhappy, impatient, snappy, or irritable when you are praising God!
The dinner is nearly done (and wouldn’t you know that pricey cut of beef has shrunk to the size of a grapefruit?!), bath and bed time are nearing, and The Husband will be home soon and everything is starting to even out. I know that a good meal (and maybe a glass of wine after The Boy goes to bed!) and a full night’s rest will reinvigorate me for tomorrow and I can get back to that list that was tossed aside today!
Sweet relief! 😉
Have you had a sort of disconnected day too? Are you struggling with maintaining certain areas in your day-to-day life like I apparently am? Maybe it’s getting a handle on consistent meal planning or grocery budgeting? Maybe you’re looking for ways to make more efficient use of your homeschooling time or just trying to figure out how to schedule it all? Maybe you are needing some encouragement to lean on and get you through frustrations? Maybe it’s balancing work and home?
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