slack…

As in, I need to cut myself some lately.

Don’t know why, but I’ve been pretty stressed the last couple of weeks. Could be the whining coupled with the increased fighting over toys that comes from a newly mobile baby…

But who knows? There’s always something new and hard just around the corner, it seems, and the easy phases don’t ever seem to last long enough for me. I’m greedy…

But I need to start laughing about it when I forget one of the things I meant to take back when I was doing some much needed returns this morning. (Mom’s here making all that possible). I need to smile and chuckle when I realize that I forgot to pick up that pack of chips for the fundraiser while I was doing returns. After all, the grocery is only across the street. It’s not the end of the world… My brain can be fried for a few years. It’ll be ok. The boys are wearing clothes, they’re fed, and things are reasonably clean. And I’m a much happier mother if I’m not rushing around like crazy and worrying about everything that’s not getting done. Happy mommies are worth a lot of dust bunnies…

If there’s a mountain of empty diaper boxes in Seth’s closet, I’ll get to it one day. It’s no big deal (as I tell the toddler daily when he dissolves into tears over dropping a Goldfish on the floor). Right? Right.

I can feel an upswing coming around the corner… (crossing fingers)