Exhaustion.

I should begin by saying that this whole thing started last night after I got home from church.  The missionaries called to confirm our dinner appointment.  Doug had signed us up for a meal several weeks ago.  I promptly forgot all about it.  Anyway, they called to confirm, and I, being tired from yesterday’s long day, forgot about the boys’ tball practice.  Tball was at 6pm, and so was the dinner appointment.  By the time I realized my mistake, it was after 11pm, too late to call and reschedule or make other arrangements.  Oops.

I haven’t slept well in a week.  I have a stupid cold.  My doctor has me on several medications, but nighttime is absolutely the worst.  I’m up at least 5 or 6 times a night.  Last night, all I could picture when I did close my eyes were the missionaries sharing a Ramen noodle (gag!) meal because I was so absent-minded to confirm a dinner appointment that I couldn’t keep.

So, this morning.  Tanner and I took Timmy to school, went to Lowe’s and Target.  When we got home, I headed outside to pull weeds.  Our yard looks like a jungle.  It’s awful.  We even got a letter from our HOA telling us to get the weeds pulled and the dead stuff out of the flower beds.  It isn’t pretty.  And we’ve been busy! And sick!  Anyway, I pulled weeds for about an hour yesterday, and about 2 hours today, and we still have a long way to go.    The plan is to pull the weeds in the front, weed-eat in the backyard.  Then we’ll put down some Weed n’ Feed.  I really think that some A&M botanist or horticulturist or whatever they are called should figure out a way to genetically engineer bermudagrass, so that it thinks it is a weed and grows accordingly.  Where did all these weeds come from??

I took a 20 minute power nap.  Timmy got out of school, and we drove to Supercuts (Tanner calls it the Hair Cut Store).  The boys desperately needed haircuts.  They look so much better with short hair!

Called the missionaries to arrange to drop off  a meal for them since we wouldn’t be home when they were planning on arriving…

I forgot one of my meds at home, so we had to drive back to the house for my medication.  The boys got their stuff ready for Tball practice.  We drove to HEB, picked up a rotisserie chicken, a loaf of hot French bread, a bag o’ salad, broccoli slaw and potato salad from the deli, and two custard filled doughnuts.  We dropped the goods off at the missionaries’ place.  (No more Ramen!!)  Drive through dinner for us, then off to Tball practice.

We arrived at practice early, on purpose.  There is a playground next to the field, and the boys really wanted to play there before practice began, but right as I parked the car, Tanner announced that he needed to use a potty.  There’s no bathroom.  So, we drove to a nearby gas station and back.  The 30 minutes that they could have played was now 10 minutes…

Practice started.  I called Doug to find out if he would be meeting us at practice…  Nope.  He was still at work.  Bummer.  Tball practice isn’t very fun for the spectators.

When I got Timmy from school, I found out that Open House was tonight.  So, after Tball, we drove to the school for open house.  I’m glad we did, because Timmy had a great time showing off the stuff that he has made and the classrooms.  All his teachers had nothing but good things to say about him.  What a nice confidence booster for him!  :)

We came home.  The boys got ready for bed, and now I’ve told you why I’m exhausted.  I think a bubble bath is in my future.