What's In A Name?

The name of my blog is "Doubly Blessed", but sometimes I feel "Doubly Tested!" Don't get me wrong, I love my kids more than anything else in the world. I would die for them! But, sometimes it's just plain hard to be a mom. I know you other mom's know this already and you can sympathize with me. I feel tested when I fight my four year old everynight to go to bed and go to sleep at a decent hour so she's not a complete crab in the morning. I feel tested when my 10 month old wakes up every 2-3 hours a night for 3 nights in a row and only wants her mommy. I finally figured out this morning that Meredith has a cold and is stuffy and that is why she's waking up. Poor Baby!! Believe me, I have sympathy for the both of them. It stinks to not be able to breathe when you sleep. Take it from an Afrin addict. And I remember being 4 years old and not wanting to go to sleep for fear of missing something. But, where's my sympathy? I don't consider myself to be a whiny (sp?) person. If I'm in pain or tired, I tend to just suck it up and go on. But, this time I'm whining because I'm beyond EXHAUSTED!! I'm trying to work full-time, take 6 hours of upper level accounting classes, be a mom to two adorable children, and keep up with a house. Again, not trying to pat myself on the back for all I do....Just giving the facts, just the facts Ma'am!! It's only by the grace of God that I'm able to accomplish it all. I try to tell myself sometimes that this is just a season. A season of having small children that I have to help do many things, a season of finishing school. This season will pass soon and life will flow much easier. Add to the mix that I finally have my act together to lose weight and am waking up early to work out EVERY morning and watching my diet. My brain feels like mush. (As you can probably tell by the flow of this blog.) I feel like I can't cram another thing into it and my poor little brain needs some good uninterruped sleep to regenerate some brain cells. That's my rambling for the day. I've got to go to Cost Accounting and kill some more brain cells.