vent - weight gain due to stress

[excitingchanges2005]

Ok, I've been out for a while now, so much going on I haven't had time to check in, so am really missing the support from this site.

I know this is long, but I just need to vent about all that is going on around here lately.

Our house is finally built, we moved in three weeks ago. The contractor hasn't done the landscaping yet, says he will come back this fall to finish. The grass seed he planted all washed out with the first hard rain we had........The outside plugs are not working, two of the sink drains and the diswasher are leaking. The dining room light switch has a short in it, the light in the shower has a mind of its own and comes on when it wants to. There is a whole list of things that we have to discuss with our builder, I have been so disgusted, we will never build another house!!!!

The week we moved in, my daycare was shut down by DCS, the owner/operator accused of "huffing" paint. Now, my children have stayed in this daycare for almost seven years and have loved it. The owner has become a friend of mine and I am really trying to support her. She is in a rehab program and going to AA meetings as per DCS guidelines. She is having a rough time right now. She has owned the daycare for over twenty years and really loves all those children.

I am upset that I was stuck without a daycare, luckily my older two children are staying home after school now, but my youngest is staying with my mother temporarily until I can find something else.

I am sticking by my daycare and hoping she will be able to reopen. She has had a really tough two years and I know she has been totally stressed out. She has admitted to me that she attempted to huff the paint, but found out after going to rehab that she wasn't even doing it correctly. I didn't much think she could have been, since she is a severe asthmatic. She is truly a terrific person, and I just feel so sorry for her right now. She went on the slim-fast diet about a year ago and began exercising daily and really lost a lot weight, of course, now everyone is saying the weight loss is due to her "doing drugs", so she can't even get credit for the one positive thing that has happened in her life!!

The first six weeks of school ends this week and my oldest child has already been in one fight, and is not turning in assignments, so we are trying to deal with that situation.

The baby keeps wanting to know when he can go back to daycare because "his friends are waiting for him".

My middle son is going through that "mouthy" stage, so that everything you say to him is seen as a chance to argue with you.

My husband is having work issues as his plant has just changed their entire management team, so everything is being turned upside down and inside out. He is so ill when he gets home, you can hardly speak to him.

Add to that my job, which is very intense and high stress. Sometimes, I feel like my household is a ticking timebomb....

Anyway through the past three weeks, I have put on about five pounds. Have not updated my ticker as I find it too depressing........

Thanks for listening guys, sorry I went on so long........just have too much going on right now.

[Diet Queen]

I don't know what to say, except I am sorry you are going through all of this. I hope things calm down soon. I am glad you shared your feelings that is what a support group is about.

[dawn1973]

I can relate 100% it seems as everything in my life has been so crazy the last 3 months due to alot of things and the only thing that has really kept me going is a saying my grandmother use to always say which was something like (what doesn't kill us can only make us stronger) so keep your head up and remember as bad as we all think it get sometimes it can really get worse!!!

Try to have a good rest of the week!

Dawn