A Day For Me

Since this is my first blog on this site, I suppose I should start off by introducing myself. Hi. My name is Melissa. I am 28 years old, a happily married mother of 4 with another on the way. Okay, I need to work on updating my profile, but I don’t feel like doing that at the moment.

In fact, I don’t feel like doing anything. I feel like every day the last several weeks I’ve had something I’ve had to do. I lead a MotherWise Bible Study in my home on Tuesdays (only 6 more weeks to go) and my husband and I are leading a Married Couples Group on Thursday nights. Sometimes I spend the day before getting the house ready, only to have my 4 kids trash the house so I can work on it again the day of.

Anyway, on top of that, we are in the process of trying to figure out what is going on with our oldest son, (I’ll call him D). We took him in to see a neurologist a couple weeks ago and she is in the process of diagnosing him with Tourettes Syndrome. In addition to that, she also wants him to see a Neuro-psychologist and a Geneticist (spelling?) to check for some deformities. D has these weird little knobs on his ears that make him look elf-like (I think it’s cute) and his feet are bent all weird and knobby (not so cute). Scott and I have taken him to several Doctors, Specialists, etc., only to hear that it’s “normal.” Finally, someone is telling me it’s not.

I could write forever about what is going on in my little life, but I just wanted to take a moment to just BE. I am horrible about making time for me or doing things for me, there’s always someone else to do something for, but between the cold weather and emotional exhaustion of everything going on in my life, I woke up today and decided I wasn’t going to do a thing.

I’m lying to myself. In a few minutes I’ll get off here and finally get dressed, start another load of laundry and do the dishes, but for the most-part, I’ve had a lazy day. And I get to look forward to having a scrapbook night tonight while my husband joins the guys from our church for a Bowling night. Now most of the women I’ve invited over have cancelled for one reason or another, (family emergency, sickness, etc.), but either way, I’m going to have an evening where I do something I want to do, not have to do!

As for now, I suppose I better get dressed and do those dishes. Then, I’ll start another load of laundry so I have something to wear tomorrow. Then I’ll probably get caught up in picking up the little things around the house. By the time I’m done, it will be time to start making some dinner. I suppose just Being was fun while it lasted…but let me end with this. I promise in future blogs, I will not write about dishes, laundry, nor cooking…surely I can come up with something a bit more interesting than that!