Ukraine Adoption

Waiting to exhale

You know you're overbooked and too busy when:

--You want to hire a babysitter but your house is such a wreck you would be too embarrassed.
--You want to hire a maid, but see above note.
--Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all decided in about three minutes in a crazy-busy morning of waffle-toasting, lunch-packing and meat-defrosting.
--"OK, Tara (SIGH) wear whatEVER shoes you want to school today...."
--Who wants Taco Bell?
--Cereal for dinner doesn't work two nights in a row.
--You spend four hours of a day off running errands and barely finish by dinnertime.
--You can't possibly memorize a new door code at pre-school because your brain is full.
--You change clothes in your car in the parking lot, and you don't even care if anyone sees you.
--You take a moment to really look at your daughter and realize her clothes are covered in paint from her school day, which ended four hours ago.
--You keep the shower running between kids. "Quick, now! Hurry, bedtime!"
--You give your daughter a book to read at night and promise to return five minutes later to turn the light off and tuck her in, only to remember an hour later, and the little sweetie is sound asleep in the bright light, clutching her book.