STRESS!

I'm stressed out. Beyond stressed. So stressed that I did something tonight that I swore I would never do!!

What's stressing me out, you say? I'm waiting to hear some important news. I'm trying to finish 5 assignments for my courses in 5 days. I'm not sleeping very well. Our interim marks reports are due this week. I just finished helping plan our big staff Christmas party-which went very well, but was very exhausting! I'm just fried.

My brain is going so much that tonight I made a big mistake. We went to McDonald's for supper-which tells you how stressed I am, as I normally like to make healthy food at home. We had a nice little visit with each other and when Kevin got up to throw away the garbage I grabbed my soda and followed him out the door. We got home and reached down by my feet for my purse...and realized that it was not there.

"Kevin! My purse! My purse! I left it at McDonald's!" My heart jumped into my throat and began to race. He went inside to call McD's and I got in the car to race back. The entire way there I just kept praying "Please let it be there, please let it be there." I made it in record time and ran inside. It was not sitting by the table we were seated at and I rushed to the counter. Luckily, the McDonald's employees had picked it up. Talk about SCARY!

I remember one time when I was younger and my mom left her purse at the McDonald's in Rapid City. We made it all the way home-one hour away-before she realized it. I just remember thinking, "How do you do that?" Now I know! I don't even have four kids to take care of and I STILL did it!

Let's hope the stress soon abates. I guess I'd better stop putting all of the work off and try to relieve some of that stress in the form of completing one of those assignments!