The SAHM life with a twist

So I totally forgot about this blog. Sorry for the apparent 4 year absence.

Adulting is a lot harder than I thought it would be. So much to keep track of and it's never ending. Chores, bills, money, health, cooking, mentality, social life...and all of those categories have sub categories. It's wild not only trying to plan and keep track of everything, but also to actually take care of everything. Being a stay-at-home-mom is rough, although I can't even begin to imagine adding even a part time job to this chaos that is my daily life. I'm pretty good at the planning part. I created schedules for everything and  got some great apps to help and I plan constantly. The execution of it is not so easy for me. I wish I had a clone. I do so much yet always feel behind on everything and I always feel like there's not enough time in the day yet am exhausted at bedtime.

I'm finding little things that help in certain areas and that's proving to be good and frustrating at the same time. We're getting a good tax refund which is awesome because we can pay off our debts, fix some things in the house, get the car checked out and maybe replace the broken recliner with a nice couch. On the flip side there were issues with our return and we had take time and money out to amend it and now the refund is taking forever to get here and the debt wolves are howling at the door.

We got new neighbors upstairs so the suspense is finally over. They have kids which is great for the munchkin. The 4 yr old comes down sometimes and plays with the munchkin and he gets some good social skills practice and also is distracted so he's not in my hair every second of the day and I can actually get some stuff done. Flip side: the mom isn't very attentive and I worry what long term effects it will have on the munchkin associating with them. Also, Muffin is a loner and doesn't care for visitors or friendly/talkative neighbors. So when the neighbor boy is rapping at the door to come in and play with Mini Muffin, Muffin gets annoyed.

I'm happy we have insurance now and I finally figured out the sequence required for getting a new leg and therefore also giving me a "leg up" (lol) in my daily life. First I must go to hanger and get fitted and all that junk. Then, they send the procedure codes over to the insurance folks to find out if they will cover a new prosthetic. Then I'll get a cost estimate for the leg from the insurance company. Sigh. Seems like a lot to go through to find out whether or not I can afford to get a new leg. Cause all of it means squat if I don't have the money or can't get some kind of financing deal going on. Anyway, I really need to get this figured out pronto cause things are getting bad. I can barely walk let alone work out. It keeps getting worse cause I keep trying to push through cause I got shit to do. I have a life to maintain and it's not going to maintain itself on account of my bum leg. It's so frustrating when a trip to Walmart takes hours and you move so slow that the little old ladies in the slow-as-molasses motorized wheel chairs are passing you in the aisles. I worry all the time every time I take Mini Muffin outside that something is going to happen because I can't run after him. I'm seriously wanting to get one of those kid leashes.

We've been sick as dogs for a whole week and shit totally went to hell. I kinda slacked off on everything because I was feeling so lousy that I just could not deal. The chores went undone so the house went to hell in a hand basket. The accounts went unchecked and the daily math went undone so we are now the week before pay day and we are running out of everything and had to borrow money for gas to get to work. I've been playing catch up for the past two days trying to get everything back on track. I'm almost caught up on the chores now. Maybe one more day and it'll be solid. I'm procrastinating right now actually. I've already done the floors, cleaned the bathroom, done the cat litter, fed the kid, dusted the fan blades, done the laundry, checked the mail, checked and refilled the car fluids, took out the trash, cleaned up the whole house like 3 or 4 times, re organized a few areas, did like 5 loads of dishes, fed and watered the cats and cleaned their tree, refilled the toilet paper roll and last night I also made some delicious steaks with rice, peas, and cauliflower. I'm a bit tired already and it's only about 4:30pm on a Tuesday. #sahmlife