Just say No!

Yesterday started off very well for me. Despite the fact I had been up quite a bit in the night with Caleb and his growing pains in his leg. I still felt rested. I showered and checked my email only to find out that I had won a HUGE box of goodies from this fabulous scrapper. I was so excited about this. Jonas wanted to get everyone breakfast himself, which was really sweet. I was able to work on girl's camp stuff for an hour before everything went down hill.
It wasn't long before the kids started fighting with each other and it never stopped. Bad, but it happens sometimes.
But then, after some phone calls, my to do list for Girls camp started growing. I got a hint of stress at this point, wondering whether I could get it all done by Sunday.
Then my mother in law, suddenly needing to go out of town, asked if I could cover the ward party this Friday for her, being that she is the only member of our activities committee. I started to feel real stress at this point.
Then some college student from Europe with such a thick accent I could BARELY understand her, knocked on the door and said she was an exchange student studying education here and the bishop sent her here to ask me a few questions about my elementary age kids. I was all, umm ok. So I invited her in only to find out she was SELLING something. And she went on and on and on. For and hour. And I wanted her to leave so I bought a children's dictionary that I don't need for 25$, that I shouldn't have spent. At that point I was stressed and annoyed at myself for not being able to say NO.
Then, the phone rang. It was a member of the bishopric. Asking me to speak in church this Sunday. I laughed. and laughed. and told him yes. Because that is something I won't say no to. But I hung up the phone and got the loveliest stress stomach ache I have had in a while.
And I woke up this morning and it's still there. Some how I know it will be there until Sunday. And I have no one to blame but myself. I really need to learn to say no.