Stretched Thin

There are no breaks.  My son is home sick for a second day.  I don't know if it is warranted, but he has just enough going on to keep him home.  I just wish that other parents were as cautious.  His heart disease adds an extra layer of concern whenever any kind of illness pops up.  I'm not running him to the doctor for every sneeze, but I need to keep things in perspective.  Even a simple cold can take a very wrong turn and if I don't give him the time to fight it off, it could come back with a vengeance.    So we're here.  At home.  Me, Gav, Peanut, Milo, and a very persistent black fly that won't leave me alone.  I have two boxes full of t-shirts that have to be mailed out from the Pocono Drag Lodge Reunion that my dad organized in August.  I will be donating 18 propaganda pads to a lady whose granddaughter takes care of wounded soldiers in Iraq.  She was irritated because it has been so long since I called her last.  I handmade all of them and then carefully packed them for shipping, but I haven't been able to get over to her house to drop them off.  I'm not sure where my husband is, I haven't heard from him in a couple of days--he is getting ready to redeploy back to his duty station from the middle east.  My grandmother was upset because she thinks I blew off my cousins birthday party--they had it when my husband was home on R & R--and I never even knew about it.  So I have a present for him and haven't been able to meet up with them to give it so I'm feeling the pressure on that.  My other grandmother is in a nursing home because she developed back to back infections and they couldn't nurse her at the assisted living home where she was.  So I wonder how many more infections her tired little body can take before it gives up?  She has Alzheimer's too.

Everyone seems to want something for nothing today.  My business is a little business.  When I donate things---which I LOVE to do---it costs me money.  It costs me the money I paid for the item plus I still have to pay NY state their sales tax on that item even though I am not collecting any.  It just seems like some days as a business owner everybody wants something for free and as me, Sherri, everybody wants something else.  The cable company, the phone company and all of those other bills all want their money but they also stick all of these little fees and surcharges in there to nickel and dime you.  I try really hard--in all aspects of my life to do the right thing and to stay on top of things, but it seems like no matter how hard I try it is never enough.