Thursday, September 27, 2012

Cleaning house

In effort to save my marriage, one thing I have to do is get my house in good shape before I get my husband home from his operating center tomorrow. I've put it off too long, so I have a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it in. This is Crisis Cleaning at its worst. Fortunately, I have plans to do a massive de-clutter on Sunday. My mom is watching my boys and we are hitting the basement and getting stuff out of here. You can't clean clutter. It has gotten bad. We are holding too much junk. This is also true with my emotional junk. I am in the process of trying to sort out some things and clear them out. (I have body clutter too, but pregnancy is not time to lose weight, just to try not to gain too much again.) I am going to start my baby steps over.
It isn't easy realizing that you've been holding a grudge against your spouse for 4 years, but that is exactly what I've done. When I was expecting our first son he moved someone in with us that I clashed with at every turn. She is the mother of a friend and she had lost her apartment after her mother passed away. Part of me wanted to help, but I knew that she lied. She lied a lot. She lied about things that didn't matter to us, and she lied to get pity and attention. She had no income and no desire to get a job. She had a horrible sense of entitlement and expected us to pay for all of her expenses for an undefined amount of time. She also spurred fights between me and my Superman. He has a big heart. I love that about him, but I couldn't stand that he was putting me in such an uncomfortable position. Situations changed, the woman moved out before our second child was born and got a job. Superman changed, he realized he was hurting me, but the damage was done. I didn't trust him to have the best interests of our family at heart. I have been moody, depressed, anxious, unyielding in my way of doing things. I got lazy. I was afraid that if I changed, if I let him back in, he'd hurt me like that again. We got married in 2011, but I wasn't myself. I have been a bitter shell holding on to the edge of what I want but afraid to take it into myself and lay myself bare to the fact that I was mad at him.  Now it is definitely time to forgive him. To forget the hurt, but remember the lesson. To stand up for myself and to show him love and respect in ways he understands, and to let him love me again. I have found another resource to help me too. Hearts At Home (hearts-at-home.org) is an online community and forum for Moms. They cover topics from marriage, faith, and family to home and organizing. I would love to be able to attend one of the conferences. That would be an awesome experience.
 
I highly recommend the Fly Lady method for anyone struggling with housekeeping. (www.flylady.org)

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Return of an old problem

I have been dealing with a lot. My in-laws' health problems, effectively being a single mom because my husband is an Over -the-road truck driver, my own issues, a crisis of faith, the fact that my boys are typical two and three year old boys, and more. I started another blog ( www.blogspot.com/countingbless ) as a way to try to make myself look at the positive things I have going for me. Today I am struggling with a feeling that my ex is trying to hurt me any way he can. U e once threatened that if I had someone else's baby, he would kill me and my child. I have two children with my dear, awesome hubby. My ex now has a little girl with his wife.  Still, I am scared of dealing with him. The point is, my dad called me yesterday with news that the house my ex and I owned together was being foreclosed on. This was news to me. I was beyond angry. He was supposed to have refinanced the house and taken my name off of it almost 6 years ago. I haven't been able to afford an attorney to take him back to court, so I was waiting, apparently I may have waited too long. Now I fear my credit will be damaged. This situation stinks. I will be in contact with my local legal aid tomorrow to see if I qualify for help. Honestly I just want to throat punch the sick, sadistic, sack of manure for not doing what he was supposed to years ago. Lesson learned - anyone who is 4 quarts of stupid in a 3 qt container is a mess that no one needs in their life.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

What a great day!

Today was a great day. I had some errands to run which the boss and I got done with minimal fussing. We grabbed some lunch and took it to the park for a picnic. The boss were super good and ate at the picnic table really well. Then we went for a walk down to see the lake.  We drove out to my dad's new place. On the drive, Turtle- bug fell asleep. After a small spat, Stink-bug took a nap, but the little guy wouldn't go back to sleep. They ate the sweeter- than-I- usually- allow snack, and let me watch one of my favorite shows. We are having my mom over for dinner, so I may actually get to clean under my furniture too. All in all today is adding up quite well, and we are adjusting to Superman being out on the road, though him being with us would have made it infinitely better.