Best Mom Tip #77: Keep getting up

I don't really have a choice about whether or not I get up in the morning, I suppose. But I wish I did sometimes. This past week was a bit wearing. Work wasn't great, Griffin STILL has some sort of cough, my throat is killing me, and I haven't had my full voice since last Tuesday. That is difficult when you're a teacher.

So, I have to remind myself to keep getting up. I am certainly not in extreme circumstances like my friends and family members who are or will be serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't know hunger or poverty. So guilt for being whiny actually helps me get my act together and get going.

But I am tired. And whiny. And I really don't like it when it rains constantly. We've been in a drought for the last few years and it seems like the heavens are making up for it all this year.

We even cancelled school for flooding, which really never happens in Atlanta. By the way, our county just announced that we would not be allowed to make that day up and, instead, our pay will be docked.

Decisions like that make it hard to feel loyal to my profession and employer. Maybe it's just a phase in my pregnancy and I'll snap out of it in another week or two. Until then, I will keep getting up. Mostly because it is hard to make sub plans from my house.

Best Mom Tip #76: Put labels on your storage bags and boxes

I have lost my maternity clothes. All of the pants and skirts I'd compiled over the last two pregnancies. The various sizes of maternity shirts I've needed. The dress I liked so much I bought it twice after I left the first one in a hotel in Miami. The one pair of maternity shorts I've ever tried on and been willing to wear. The tank tops I wore as undershirts almost every day.

All of this is because I don't label things. The best I can figure, I got the bag of maternity clothes mixed up with a bag of clothes to be given to Goodwill. Somewhere out there pregnant mothers who wanted to dress like me and shop at Goodwill are very happy. Although, I'm not sure anyone wants to actually dress like me so maybe they're still there and I could go try to buy them back at very reasonable prices.

I am an idiot without clothes to wear during the months of March, April, May, and June. Maybe I'll just wear the same thing every day and focus on accessories. Of course, I only have two pairs of shoes to wear because I can't wear heels so the variety will be limited.

I realize that this is not a real problem and that I am very lucky to be able to just buy new clothes, but I am still annoyed. Booooooooo, me.