Exhausted

[jadeeyes]

My daughter and her husband were asked to organize a men's 16" softball tournament for this weekend. They enlisted the help of our 24 year old son, my husband and me. We were so busy all week, got to bed late on Friday night and had to be at the ball field by 9:00 am yesterday. I was supposd to be running the concession stand and my husband was supposed to be the official score keeper. Well, my husband woke up sick at 4:00 am. He has some kind of gastrointestinal thing going on. So, I spent the day at the park running from the concession stand to the scorer's table while keeping my eye on 1 of the grandkids. It was in the upper 80s, very humid and sunny. I had no shade and I'm very fair so I got a sunburn. It was a lot of fun but a lot of work. My husband felt much better today so we had a cookoutand now I'm completely wiped out. I feel like I could sleep for a week. Summers always get this way. We're so busy trying to squeeze every ounce of fun, sunshine and hot temps of the summer before the miserable, cold months set in that sometimes we tend to overdo it.

[icebear]

you are a madwoman :madgrin
today you need to put your feet up. take a milk bath.... make tonight's dinner be a "fend for yourself" night . :hug

days like that make me crazy... takes me days to recover! :faint

[jadeeyes]

you are a madwoman :madgrin
today you need to put your feet up. take a milk bath.... make tonight's dinner be a "fend for yourself" night . :hug

days like that make me crazy... takes me days to recover! :faint

Well, it helps that my kids are all grown and I don't work. I got up this morning and still felt tired so I sat in the recliner and fell asleep for 1/2 hour. Then I made coffee. Granted my daughter is more than 20 years younger than I am, but she has 4 kids, a nerve disease babysits, runs a business from her home and so on and so on. This is the way she and her husband live most of the time. I don't know how they do it. I don't even fell like I should say that I'm just about too tired to breathe and my feet and my sunburn hurt. She was having troubke walking and standing all last week because of pain in her feet and one knee from the nerve disease and she not only worked at least as hard as I did preparing for this tournament, she also pit together the summer soccer banquet as the spring season just ended. She ordered food, did all the set up and decorating, ordered and received all the trophies, placques and certificates, made tshirts for the tournament and we had to scrub the concession stand from floor to ceiling. That's not even 1/2 of what she did. It's a shame I have to leave now for a haircut because running through all that left me feeling the need for a nap. :aha

[icebear]

some people are amazing...


i am not one of them :(/:aha


...when i go through my manic periods, i sometimes resemble them, but i lack that dear "servant's peace" during it.... :panic

[jadeeyes]

I guess I was kind of the same when I was much younger. I'm really noticing that I need more time to bounce back after a day or two like that than I ever needed before. I wish I could just tap some of the enrgy my grandkids have and use it for a little pick me up every afternoon or at the beginning of a day that I kn ow is going to be exceptionally busy.

Flight of ideas here. Do you remember the cartoon Ricochet Rabbit? I need some of what he has. He literally bounced off the walls. :lol2

[denny272]

some people are amazing...


i am not one of them :(/:aha


...when i go through my manic periods, i sometimes resemble them, but i lack that dear "servant's peace" during it.... :panic

:nod Me too. :aha I'm a frenzied nightmare in a rush.