S-T-R-E-S-S

Sorry it's been a bit since I posted.  It's been a long, weird, stressful week.  I'm not sure exactly what caused all of the stress; I think it's just a buildup of everything that has been going on in my life lately.  Right now, I am dealing with many of the top stressors:
Death of a family member (CP's mom)
Job Change (mine)
Adding a new member to the family (DJ's adoption)
Financial stressors (related to getting CP's mom's estate settled)
My dad taking his one month sabbatical
and lastly,  I might be starting to experience symptoms of
PMs (aka PeriMenopause or pre-menopause)

With all of this pressure building up lately, you might have guessed it,

I blew up on Sat.

The day started out OK, but a few things added to the stress.  I knew I didn't feel right and I prayed about it.  I thought things had settled down, but when CP and the boys came home from their morning surf adventure, I caught (what I thought) was some attitude from JA and I lost it. 

Momma needed a time out!!!!! 

So, I ended up going to my room and hanging out until I could apologize to my family for my outburst.  I knew that I needed some time away from the house that didn't involve lots of work.  So today, we went on a family trip.  I'll blog about that tomorrow.