Feeling a bit overwhelmed

Or possibly I am a bit "underwhelming". I'm not finding enough time in my day to deal with all of the "things" that need dealing with. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
My cleaning/sorting idea has blossomed into a full blown war. It seems to be me against the world. My family sees me coming and runs the other direction. Of course, my husband is very supportive, but as he said the other day "Sure get rid of all your stuff. I think it's great! I think it's wonderful. Just leave my stuff alone!" At first I was thinking that he was just kidding me, but I left him a couple of boxes of stuff to sort through yesterday while he was home alone and I don't see any sorting done. Although, I will say in his defense that he did help me a great, great deal when I was cleaning in our closet. He actually tried on all of his clothes to see if they fit. If they didn't, they went bye bye. He says he helped in self defense, otherwise I might have given away some of his good stuff.

Anyway, the war continues. I have now finished 3 rooms. There are 8 more to go. Some of them will not take long. It is a big undertaking to pull everything out, right down to the carpet and walls and then only put the good stuff back in. I have made 3 trips to donate at the local Go*dw*ll store and filled many garbage bags. If the kids and Will help me it takes much less time as I sort and they deliver to appropriate places. If it's just me, it takes a long time. Aside from working full time, during the holiday season for the post office, there have been other problems.

The main thing that has happened is the tendonitis in my feet especially my right foot has gotten progressively worse over the last couple of months. Monday I was walking and felt something "snap". Not a good sound, especially with all the pain that came with it. I called our medical clinic and it's wonderful staff. They got me right in to see the foot specialist. It seems that I have badly damaged one of the main tendons in my right foot and it will be a long term problem unless my more than able GOD intercedes. Right now, my foot is taped from toes to ankle and a special devise is taped in there also to keep my foot from messing that tendon up even more. Normally this would go away after this treatment, but the reason that it came is because my knees have been screwed up since birth and even though I have had surgery on both they are not right, just made more pain free by the surgery. So.....I walk different to make up for my knees and make sure they don't hurt. That seems to be what has caused my feet problems. The knees are not going to change so I don't know how the walking will either.

I asked the Doc what came first the chicken or the egg? Is the foot caused by the knee or the knee caused by the foot? His answer: who knows? Helpful, that one. So it looks like we are trying special orthodics in my shoes to try to compensate for the difference in my walking and to still protect my knees. Otherwise, surgery here we come on either my feet or my knees if the feet cannot compensate for the knees anymore.
A major problem that I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR!!!!!

I am not a "sitter". I am a "get up and doer" and right now I cannot get up and do and it is driving me crazy. I have only been on enforced sitting for a couple of days and it is killing me. Of course, truth be told, yesterday was my first day back at work and by the time it was done, I was in misery. Thank God my husband stepped up and took wonderful care of me. The kids will help too, when I ask them. Sometimes even without groaning. I just am aggrivated and feeling guilty because a bunch of the sorting stuff is still in one room of the house and I really want to get that done. Christmas Eve is coming and that usually means lots of people at our house. That means I need to be done.

Add onto it the 22 gift baskets that we need done for our friends and family. I think it usually comes to around 100 dozen cookies or more that we make each year. Usually there are about 20 loaves of bread and some quick breads in there as well as peanut butter balls, toffee and bon bons. Getting hungry? Believe it or not this is usually the time that I can lose weight. When you work with it that much you don't even want to look at a "sweet thing". This year, I will have to make the kids and Will work harder on it. BUT the good thing about that is that it will give us more family time. The bad thing is that the staff keeps "eating the product". I think they might make the "mistakes" just so they can eat them.

We got our first snow fall last night that "stuck". There are now about 1 1/2 inches on the ground, with our first major snow storm arriving this weekend. We are supposed to have our Christmas caroling this weekend, but possibly will have to change that to another weekend due to the weather. At this time they are saying 4-8 inches on Saturday and then freezing rain on top of it with blizzard conditions on Saturday and Sunday. Will has to work and that leaves me with the shoveling. Yuck. The snow blower died last year and is still waiting to be fixed. Grab out the shovels.

My parents are still in Tennessee and I don't blame them one bit. In fact, I wish I was there. I used to love winter, but not anymore. Now that I have to work outside in it every day, with my window open as I drive down the road, or just stand outside putting mail in mail boxes out in the snow and wind, I'm finding that it has just sapped all the fun out of it for me. I just want to curl up in a chair in front of my fireplace with a good book, a cup of tea, my dog on my feet and my cat on my lap. I just get cold and cannot get warm. Something completely foreign to me for years. Well, I've got time to sort some stuff before I go to work.
Have a wonderful day.
God bless.
dea