September 11, 2023 - Monday


Today is Gabe's birthday. He'd be 43! I wonder what he would have looked like if he had lived this long. Would he have graying hair? Would it still be long and poofy? Would he be balding? Would he have gained weight? Would he have straightened up his act? Who can know? God, I hope he's in Heaven. 

The school day went great today, but I have had a killer headache that just won't quit. Instead of relaxing during quiet time, I went onto the ACE program to try to figure out why my claims got denied. So, instead of rest, I got stress. I was pretty much raging by the time I was done trying to navigate their crappy online system and submitting a request for help. Getting my blogs in and photo editing helped me to unwind a little though. 

I am SO EXCITED for Maine. I cannot wait!!! I wish our trip was going to be two weeks instead of one. I wonder if there's any way I can convince Ben? All I'd need to do is bring our homeschool stuff and he could bring his computer to work. Hmmmmm.... I think I really just need some time away from having to be places and do things. I know I'm awful. I should be grateful to have a social life and kids who are social and have friends, but I just want to be comfortable for a little while! It's fine. A week will be enough, I'm sure. I'm also looking forward to getting the new van, or at least having the stress of the new van buying thing gone from over our heads. Ben has been so anxious about it and I'm ready for him to stop feeling so stressed out. Everything is making him freak out lately. The pool, the van, any plans or obligations, meals, and on and on. On Saturday, he snapped at me because I never buy the right kind of food. I ended up inviting him to let me finish the garage alone so he could go work out his feelings elsewhere. He should probably start doing the shopping again if it's going to be like that. 

Ollie's extra sneaky-ness was super extra today. As I was going to the bathroom this morning, I heard a strange hissing/gurgling sound. I tried to ignore it, but started to get scared, honestly. Like, is something going to come up out of the bath drain?? What is happening? I finally located the source of the noise and it was this container of bath fizzies. Apparently, "someone" squirted a bunch of soap in there and they had a delayed reaction. It got very messy. Lots of fun surprises throughout the day, but this one where she took all of the sheets off of her bed to make a fort and wore several layers of each type of clothing was my favorite because of all of the extra clean up time it cost me AND because of how darn proud she was of herself. :)

Also, I'm not one to post selfies, but I cut a few inches off of my hair and I'm very happy about it. 



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