I am so overwelmed! My wedding is in five months, and up until now the planning has been going smoothly, everything was just swell. I am a substitute teacher and a writer, so I could make time to do what needed to be done. Lucky, right?
Well now that it is approaching crunch time everything feels like it is falling apart. My FI got a promotion that is so far taking him away from home for two weeks out of the month (right now he is in Calgary for 2 weeks, and then Las Vegas for 4 days. He will only be home for about 70 hours in between). Meanwhile, my friend asked me to run her summer camp at the daycare where she is a directer, and the money is needed so I agreed, but it is requiring a lot of serious planning (lesson plans, field trips, etc.). And I have a deadline for my book by the 1st of July and I still need 20,000 words for my 1st draft...... and my sister has gone off the deep end, dropped out of the wedding, and now her two teenage children are living with my other sister and my parents, so I am trying to help out since I couldn't take one (I took her cat lol) and both teenagers are seriously messed up and requiring all sorts of parental guidence, if you know what I mean............
AND my "good" sisters mother in law and babysitter has recently passed away (so sad all on its own) and now my sister wants my mother and me to divy up daycare duties because she can't afford to put her kids in daycare b/c she and her husband just bought a 36 foot camper. So now I am being pressured to give up my afternoons on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays even though that is when I work on my book. My mother is watching them during the day, but she is not well and she can't keep doing it..... and my sister is on-call on weekends so I feel like I can't make any plans those weekends......
My "good" sister is my MOH but she is too busy to help me with any wedding duties. My mom is giving me her all, however.
I still have a lot of wedding stuff that needs doing, and my FI is away so much that he can't help that much, and I will be really busy all summer running the summer camp, and I am getting married in October. We haven't gotten a limo, I don't have all the favors, I don't have my dress yet, the honeymoon isnt booked, I need to revisit the baker and the florist and on and on. And it is pretty much me and my mom, when she is not dealing with my other sisters and their kids and her own life.
Anyway, I feel better now. I will take a deep breath....... ahhh....
Any suggestions on how to get myself organized? It is too late to "simplify", we are having a small wedding already, and I have already spent a lot of money so I don't want to do too much changing....
Thanks!