Stress comin' at ya!

Wow, I'm stressed these days! We sold the house and are in full packing mode. The house is a wreck with boxes stacked everywhere which, because I'm a bit OCD, causes me major stress. The kids are starting to show signs of stress as well as their lives are being rearranged and THAT causes ME a ton of stress. I still have my bloody Independent Study course to finish by January that is a thorn in my side. We are trying so hard to find a new home and it just isn't coming quite as easily as I had hoped. We are so lucky to have a great home to move into while we look for a new place, but it is always difficult to live in a home that isn't your own. I am going to be so paranoid about the kids ruining things and sleeping in the same room. I doubt they'll get a whole lot of sleep at first which is going to make life SO fun. I will be taking the kids to their current schools so I don't have to uproot them from that part of their life which is going to mean A LOT of back and forth travel for me!! It will be worth it to have them in their same schools, but wow, we're going to go through a lot of gas!!

My body has a terrific way of handling stress that I just love. Of course the zits pop out in generous numbers, but I can handle that. The worst part is that I get cankers in my mouth by the dozens!!! A couple of weeks before my wedding I had a canker in my mouth that was so enormous I couldn't eat or talk. It was excruciating. I ended up going to the doctor for it and he gave me some anti-viral pills and some cream. I still use the cream every time I get a canker and, thankfully, it works wonders. If only it could stop the cankers from forming....

I'm not really trying to complain or get any sympathy (we did do this to ourselves, by the way), but I just want to have the memories of the stress so I can look back when we are settled into our new, beautiful home and say, "We did it! We made it, and it wasn't as bad as I remember! And best of all....it was worth it!!". Oh boy I hope I say those words!!!