Overwhelmed.

Am I really overwhelmed?  I'm having trouble deciding.  I just have that feeling in the pit of my stomach that I've got a lot to do and not enough time.  Anybody else ever get that feeling?  

It's not my MOPS things that are overwhelming.  Thank goodness.  I've got a handle on my crafts and love our steering team so I've been having a great time.  Maybe it's being the cross country coach.  I'm thinking that's it.  These last two weeks have been tough.  I've been up earlier than usual and hubby has to have the toddler in the morning while I run with the group and do practices.  The part that is the most stressful is that we host our own meet in less than two weeks.  It's those things that creep up on you that you weren't told about.  I knew we hosted our own meet, but I didn't realize how much stuff I have to do to get ready for it.  So I'm hoping this overwhelming feeling will go away after that.  

The problem is, I hate living with that time line.  The overwhelmed feeling will go away in x number of days.  I don't want to live my life like that, looking ahead trying to figure out when I will have a break in the action.  I feel like I miss out on so much then.  I know the meet will come together.  I also know that if they want to do fundraising for shirts etc, I've done all I can do and that is give the parents the idea and a little help in getting started.  Hopefully we will get into a routine more this week.  We start practicing in the afternoon since the teachers go back for conferences and work days at school.  They run buses to pick kids up for practice so I'm at the mercy of the bus schedule, but it could be good.  

I feel I've got a better handle on this overwhelmed feeling (although my terrible writing skills may not be showing it) since I'm making smaller lists.  I have just one list and it has only a few things to do on it for MOPS and cross country.  I have a list and instructions with everything I need to do.  I'm just trying to prioritize these things.  For example, this week I have my cross country schedule done, I need to plan my menu (I'm having the team over for a dinner the night before our first meet.), and most importantly I need to prepare my craft for our steering committee meeting on Tuesday.  That sounds so much more manageable than adding all the things I know I need to do for the meet etc.  Once this list is done I can move on to the next.

Now if i can just get caught up with the cleaning list.  I let hubby sleep in this morning (he's still sleeping), not that I'm expecting anything in return, but I'm still hopeful he might at least help me outside in the yard!  Now Martin and I might go play at the park!