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Hi!  I am feeling all sneaky and stealth-like here.  I have a blog where my family and friends keep updated about my life and my children.  Mostly happy, upbeat, ok to say to the MIL stuff.  Here, well, they don't know that I am here.  Ha!  So here is where I will unload a few things that they have no idea about...

Okay, that sounds so sinister.  Nothing is that bad.  I am a working mom of three who wants to be a stay at home mom.  We homeschool.  My husband is a great guy.  We are moving into our first home after many, many rentals.  I just got a new van.  These are all things I post about over at my blog.  (Shameless plug for myself...)  However, I am really, really stressed out.  I have been working 10 hour days.  I work for AmeriCorps, similar to the Peace Corps, but with less prestige and much less pay.  I do get a nice sum for my student loans, so that is my motivating factor.  I tutor at risk kids in four schools in grades 4-8.  Everyday.  They have behavioral, emotional, and family problems.  And alot have drug and violence problems.  That is some stress.  Add to it the house work, school work for my 1st grader, packing, waiting and waiting for a closing date, repairs at the old house and the new house, juggling finances, the price of gas, and how I feel about my weight, well, that's not all roses to post for my in-laws and long distance relatives to mull over as they see cute pics and videos of my adorable children, now is it?  That blog is not fake, but has a nice positive, humorous spin.  It's not all the marshmallow fluff of life, but it isn't the blood and guts side either. 

Take today for example, long day of work, making supper, giving kids a bath, kids and honey with allergies and feeling run down, and me up stressing over $$ and a messy house and unfinished school work.  I am in full shut down mode.  I could care less that I now have two naked girls running all over the house base jumping off the towering boxes that contain all my worldly treasures or at least a butt load of crap.  I don't even feel up to tossing underpants at their heads.  Now that would be a nice video for my MIL.  Below the video would be the number for Children and Youth Services.  Just title that and it would be a great blog entry...

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