My terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week!

This week was just one of those weeks.  Nothing went the way I wanted it to and and nothing went as planned. 

It all started at  beginning of the week when I started to think about packing up the house for the move. Monday and Tuesday night I came home after work and packed boxes until 10:00pm.  Tuesday I was yelled at by the CFO at work for something that I did that my boss specifically asked me to do.  There was never an apology by any of them.

Wednesday afternoon I got a call  from a lady at church that I team teach with (we teach the six year olds).  She had a family emergency and needed me to teach this coming Sunday.  I really wanted to tell her I couldn’t because I was so tired and felt so overwhelmed with work and the move but I knew that I should.  So, I said yes and asked her to drop the class materials off at my house.  When I got home from work they were there.  I sat and reviewed the lesson and thought it would be OK.  I hate public speaking and get really nervous when I have to.  I’m not really sure why teaching six year olds would make me nervous but they do.  To take my mind off of that, I decided to pack more boxes until Kelly and Dave would be there to drop Noelle off to spend the night.  Noelle and I played for awhile before Thomas was dropped off.  I got them both in the bath and into bed by 8:30.  At 9:30 I decided that I couldn’t do anymore and decided to go to bed.  I put Buttons in her crate in my room and went to sleep.  Sometime later I was woken up by some guys laughing.  When I first woke up I thought I was dreaming.  I laid in bed for a few minutes and then heard someone walking in the rocks in my backyard.  Still thinking I was hearing things, I looked to the window, from my bed. I saw two people at my window.  Now I knew I wasn’t dreaming. 

For those that know me, know that I have always been scared to stay home alone for fear that someone would break in.  I can’t tell you how many times I have thought about what I would do if I was ever in this situation. Once I was in it, I did nothing that I thought I would. 

I laid still in my bed until I could hear them walk away from the window.  I grabbed the phone next to my bed and literally rolled out of my bed to the floor and called 911.  I was lucky that I got a dispatcher right away.  She kept me pretty calm on the phone while I was waiting for the police to arrive.  All I could think about was how I was going to get to Thomas and Noelle if these people  got into the house.  The dispatcher asked me if I was armed and for someone that is scared to be alone, I felt really stupid to say “No” and that I didn’t even have a baseball bat.  It felt like an eternity but was really probably only 4 to 5 minutes the police came to the door.  They looked around the the backyard and around the house but the guys had already got away.  During all of my my talking and the police coming into the house and making noise the kids and Buttons managed to stay sound asleep.  Some guard dog Buttons is!!! 

After the Police left I called Kelly and told her what had happened.  I was still shaking like a leaf and was scared that the people would come back after the police left so she had Dave come and pick the kids and I up and take us to her house to sleep.  I honestly don’t think I have ever been so scared.  I’m thinking that they were young guys thinking the house was empty because it’s for sale and when they saw that someone was still living there they took off.  Regardless I have decided not to spend another night there.  I was planning on moving to Kelly’s in a couple of weeks anyways so I have decided to move in now.  I spent most of yesterday packing up the house and will spend all day tomorrow packing and hopefully by the end of the week the majority of the work will be done so the movers can pick it all up and take it to storage. 

As and added bonus to the bad week, Noelle woke up with fever this morning and terrible cough so I had to call for a substitute teach my Sunday school class.  I’m crossing my fingers that this coming week will be a much better one!!!!

On the positive side I love spending time with Kelly and the kids and I’m looking forward to being able to be here when baby Karly arrives.