Life has felt rather overwhelming since we got back from RMH. My body has not kept up well and I have felt exhausted so I have been trying to balance rest and getting things done.
But I often feel like I don't get as much done as I would like to. I am rather hard on myself of all of the things that I feel like I don't accomplish in a day.
So I am writing down all the things I did yesterday as a reminder to me for those days I am beating myself up.
-I called central scheduling to make the girls dental appointments
-emailed NIH to make sure they got my last email because I had not heard from them since the 2nd... they emailed back that they were working on the next thing of paperwork. They emailed over more paperwork to fill out so I filled that all out. Brent now is working on the scanner to get it to scan in everything so I can email it back.
-Re-organized a closet
-emailed the person on the council about a project
-filled out the records request paperwork for Shriners to get the things they need from chw for the new clinic and sent that the chw. Chw sent back an email with some of the records... I printed out the 120 pages and hole punched them and put them in my binder.
-I called Shriners to see about scheduling the follow up since the scheduling window was closed when we left the other day. They called back saying they scheduled us for a day in October just with the one doctor instead of the MD clinic and I said that I thought we needed to be seen by the clinic and they transferred me to leave a voicemail for the nurse. I also noticed that the time they scheduled the appointment for was at the same time as our GI appointment at CHW.
-I called central scheduling to see if we could move the GI appointment since we now had two appointments at the same time in different states. They said the soonest they could do was January so I emailed our special needs coordinator to see if she could work some magic... she couldn't so hopefully when shriners calls me back we can more that appointment... I hate it when places schedule appointments without asking first.
-I emailed back and forth with the person in charge of the golf outing finishing up my speech and working on other opportunities we are participating in that day.
-took down the snow village... yes I know it is July... we only put it up every few years because it always takes a while to take down... it just hasn't been at the top of the list but I wanted other things in the kitchen to get cleaned and I needed that space
-the normal daily things of meds, diapers, getting kids dressed, cleaning up a huge bile mess Lydia made
-I got a shower in!!!
-We went to Freds for dinner, walked to Adrians and went to Kohls
-re-organized formula and pedialyte
-Make a Wish called!!! Jilli's medical team nominated her for a wish and Make a Wish called to say that Jilli qualifies for a wish and what the next steps are. Jilli and I spent a while talking about what she would like for a wish. I made a youtube playlist for Jilli to think about wish options.
-Worked on some things for Jilli's birthday trip
-started to work on ordering Lydia's 2yr pictures
-wrote up a thing for Brent's company to send out for the run walk to hopefully add more people to our team and raise money. I also did a facebook post to try to help with the walk too... sadly this year we are really struggling to raise anything :( By this time most years we are at least half way to our goal and this year we are at 5%
-organized some donations for rmh and packed the kids clothes to head back to rmh
Also a huge shout out to my mom who has spent the last two days here helping out (I spent 4+ hours on Thursday working on laundry from being gone). She and Jilli cleaned the dinning room (Lydia loves to throw toys under the table), took care of recyclables (we recycle so much more then have trash), and cleaned Jilli's play area... Lydia... well she helped to make more messes lol!
Sometimes I feel like I fail at keeping the house the way I would like to and feel like at the end of the day like I didn't accomplish anything but when I look at that list I see all of the different ways I was pulled in one day and all of the things I really did accomplish.
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