A little frustrating!

So last night our wonderful neighbour came over to babysit. I must tell you about this woman as she has been such a God-send. She is an amazing lady. She's in her early 70's, but jogs 3x's/week and has such energy I wish I could keep up. Quite a while ago she had offered to babysit but I didn't want to impose. Then this summer her daughter was down from Toronto and had come over to talk to me as I was loading up our girls into the van. She begged me to take her Mom up on her offer. She said her Mom liked to be busy and would really love to help. Since then I figured, as long as she tells me when it doesn't work for her, I'd gladly have some extra help. It has been so awesome, especially when I wasn't feeling good. There were times when I had such a bad migraine that I couldn't stop throwing up, I just called Barbara, sent the oldest 2 girls over there, put the baby to bed and was able to go back to bed to sleep off the headache. The best part is that my girls totally LOVE going to her house. The basement has all kinds of music instruments, crafts, and dress up cloths that it really lets little girls imaginations go wild.

So my day started off yesterday with insomnia at 3:00am and I only got 3/4 hr more sleep after that before the girlies thought it was time to get up. Good thing was that the oldest 2 had preschool, so after dropping them off, I popped Danica back in her crib for her morning nap and headed back to bed myself. Just to round the day off as a total write-off, when I picked the girls up, fed them and sent THEM off for nap time, I headed back to bed again. So I figured that I'd be feeling great for the evening out with my husband. Barbara came over after dinner and I was feeling good. She told us to go out for a drink after shopping and enjoy ourselves. She said that she'd just be home watching TV (until about 2:00 am)so whether she did it at our house or her's, it didn't matter (not sure I believe that as our TV upstairs is only a 13" and she had a big flat screen at home).

We got the mall and I was still feeling pretty good. It wasn't until about 20 minutes into our shopping trip that my head started swimming and I started to feel super tired again (SO annoying when I had 2 naps that day). Then Jeff ended up running into a guy he used to fly with. I had never met them before and they seemed super nice. Problem is, I have such a hard time keeping a train of thought sometimes, that having a prolonged conversation with someone takes quite a bit of work. It's SUPER annoying, especially for me! Thankfully my friends and family understand what is going on, but when it's someone I've never met before, well lets just say it's very embarassing. I'm sure those people said "Nice to see Jeff Jackson again, but man what an airhead his wife is". I had tried to elude to the fact that I had something going on with my head so had a hard time concentration, but I think I might have made the situation worse. Really makes me cringe, but as I said to Jeff on the way home. Hopefully I don't have to see those people again and in 1 year from now I'll hopefully be all "fixed".