As you can tell from the title of my post, I have been quite stressed lately. Maybe my pregnant brain is blowing things out of proportion, but it feels like life has been especially challenging lately.
What's been going on:
Cael has asthma which mostly makes itself known at night keeping me from sleeping ....A LOT!
School has been throwing all sorts of surprises my way! Unexpected due dates, professors assigning the wrong reading and not telling us til the day before the exam that we need to read a whole different section of our text book, finals being mailed in and getting lost somewhere along the way making it so I have to do my final all over again.
Church: I have been given the calling I have dreaded the most. Teaching in RS. I have also been asked to speak in a few weeks and on top of that, Cael throws terrible fits when I leave him at nursery. I thought we were over this at Moran Prairie, but then we moved and Cael decided he just couldn't live without me again.
Pregnancy: This pregnancy has been the most painful I have every experienced. Every little move I make makes me want to break down into tears because I hurt so bad. One day I tried walking down the stairs and the pain was so overwhelming I fell to my knees and couldn't move for a few minutes. It has not been fun. Due to the pain and lack of sleep I have been having a hard time being the house wife, mother, and employee that I need to be.
So yes, I have been very stressed. Fortunately for me, one my current courses is Stress Management. I have actually learned a lot and I've been able to apply a lot of what I have learned to my own life including time management, budgeting, now meditation. I have also learned that I need to be more assertive and I need to learn how to ask for help.
I have been very fortunate to work with Sora Smith. She has been so great at the music school and so willing to cover for me when I am not feeling well. I have also been very fortunate to have a loving husband who does so much to help relieve my stress by helping with Cael at night, taking on extra cleaning duties, satisfying my pregnancy cravings, etc... Even Jaeda has been trying to help out. Just yesterday she heard me complaining about how sore my whole body was. She ran over, took off my socks, and started massaging my feet, haha.
I love my family and my friends, and I am so grateful for the help that has been given to me to help make my life easier and less stressful.
Thanks for the support everyone!!
